TWELVE years ago, Britain was crying out for change from a divided, exhausted Government. Today we are there again.
In 1997, “New” Labour, shorn of its destructive hard-Left doctrines and with an energetic and charismatic leader, seemed the answer.
Tony Blair said things could only get better, and few doubted him. But did they get better? Well, you could point to investment in schools and shorter hospital waiting lists and say yes, some things did – a little.
But the real story of the Labour years is one of under-achievement, rank failure and a vast expansion of wasteful government interference in everyone’s lives.
Nobody can doubt the dedication of Gordon Brown – or the love and loyalty of his wife Sarah, who delivered a moving plea on his behalf yesterday.
But nor can they disguise the failures of Labour in Government over the last 12 years, many of them embarrassingly laid bare by the PM’s own words yesterday.
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My hopes and prayers are that Britain can heal itself. Hopefully the false god called liberalism has not already pushed that once great nation past the point of no return.
This reads like the actions of the Lieberal Party of Canada.
Call it socialism, liberalism, whatever-kind-of-ism… The simple fact is this foolishness is a danger to liberty. How long can any society continue when it is divided upon itself?