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Tony Blair’s was arguably to the left of where Ed Miliband was, as follows: 1. Blair didn’t want to cut benefits for unemployed young people. 2. Blair supported a higher rate of tax on corporate profits than Miliband. 3. Blair supported renationalising the railways while in opposition. 4. Blair was more positive about immigration. 5. Blair imposed a windfall tax on privatised energy companies. 6. Blair pledged to scrap the market system imposed on the NHS. 7. Blair wanted regional government to be democratically elected. 8. Blair advocated lower university tuition fees than Miliband. 9. Blair flirted with putting ordinary workers into company boardrooms. 10. Blair didn’t support a freeze on public sector pay. 11. Blair left Labour with a stronger link to the trade unions. Oh, and I forgot to add, he was an even greater hypocritical, champagne swigging, expenses addicted, wealthy, ex-public schoolboy than Milliband, who, like all Marxist ideologues will also be grabbing money as soon as he can. Neither of them can compare to the ultimate leftie of the Labour party, that old ginger windbag, Kinnock, who, with his wife have hoovered up more public money than any other failed politician I can remember and trained his son in the same caper. At least Tories aren't dishonest about wanting to accumulate money. It's just that they generally do it by building something of value, like a business that employs people, not sponging off the taxpayer...and don't get me started on that ex-waiter and now Lord John Prescott or the awful John Bercow. Slime bags and apparently not ashamed of it... Socialism in action? They are mugging you all off, as is the case in Scotland. Still the morons that vote these sh !ts in will get the MP's they deserve. The rest of us just lucky they are not allowed to spend our money any more...

That's why Tony Blair has £60M in the bank, then... No, everyone wants to be rich, even just to give it to charitable causes. Those that haven't got the brains or talent to become rich, simply say they hate it, but it's simply envy.

Not sure what argument you're trying to make but it seems to involve me being a nobhead and that you won't support a party whose policies you agree with. Like most of the vanishing breed of socialists, you're trapped in a world of dogma and class prejudice. You're just lucky that ignorance is bliss...

I think you're a budget behind. That was from the 2014 Autumn statement. Read this and weep for Labour. They've been trumped: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/budget-2015-george-osborne-promises-8bn-more-annual-funding-for-nhs-by-2020-10375397.html

A minor lesson in practical economics. If the minimum wage was raised to £9 for 21-24 year olds, youth unemployment would rocket. Still, when you're on Planet Corbyn where economics is based on beliefs, not financial reality, then you'd put up with high youth unemployment. Socialism always thrives on discontent and an opposition Labour party and their whore masters, Unite, would love that.

They're right. The Conservative Party will double childcare hours to 30, increase the minimum wage to £9 by 2020, guaranteed an £8 billion increase in spending per year above inflation by 2020 for the NHS and promised to invest £18bn in building new schools. Let's face it, in one budget the Labour Party has had the midfield snatched from it and only have the left touchline to run up and down, while complaining to the lino. I don't see them scoring many goals that way...

Oh, and read this, as well...

You almost had me, up to this point...

A real working class hero, then...

Just a quick heads up. You may not have noticed, but the "class" system is finally dead in the UK. Apart from dinosaurs like you, no one gives a sh! t about it any more. It's been replaced by the social mobility the Tories offered voters at the last election. The only mobility offered by Labour was of the downward variety.

I take no money from the charity I am chairman of, even for expenses. I just happen to think that's unethical.

Oooh, a champagne socialist...a vanishing breed as most of them can't live with the hypocrisy, any more. Socialists in this country will slowly morph into Democrats, as they have in the US, where self made wealth is something to be admired, not resented and envied, and their politics are almost indistinguishable from the Republicans. Socialist politics isn't dying, just the politics of envy.

You know more about whine than wine...

Pity Tony Blair doesn't have your ethics...worth over £60M at the last count and much of it off the backs of impoverished third world countries, like South Sudan. Don't you just love these champagne socialists?

You can never be too rich. Now, haven't you got an allotment to look after?

I'm assuming that when you get this £150k from the taxpayer, you'll be donating it to those worse off than you...

I know and it only cost me £3. Jezbollah all the way...

You're wasting your breath. You have to ask yourself that if these lefties are so smart, why aren't they rich?

Thank Christ you're not in the work force any more...although the worry is that you get a vote.

Mate, your problem, which is apparent from your posts, is that you didn't work hard enough at school. Jeez....

Hockey has taken a look at Greece, Russia and North Korea and decided that is the path to a fairer and more equal society...

I didn't really need to read that article to agree with you that Corbyn would be perfect. Such an outcome will mean that Socialism in this country will go the same way as the Soviet Union. Broken and discredited, it will become less and less relevant to young people and be replaced by the conservative ideals for working families that aspire for a better life. If we can ever revive the Big Society that was born in the 2010 Conservative Manifesto, I'd be over the moon. This inspired me to do community work and when you've got money, you can do so much more. Creating wealth, that's the secret to a better society.

If there were no poor people around, who would wash my Range Rover, that's what I want to know....

Here it is, numbnuts:

The trouble is, under Labour there would be no money to help those struggling to get by. I think you lefties all need to go to Greece and see how a real Socialist government can ruin a country. I don't see the poor migrants, those in real need fighting to stay in Calais. They're prepared to swim the Channel to live in this "Thatcherite/Blairite" stronghold and leave the striking dock workers in France behind...