John Major's government stabilised the economy after the recession in the early 1990s but was brought down by accusations of sleaze.
The Labour party have behaved appallingly in this area from almost day one (remember the Ecclestone affair?) yet have managed to avoid the sleaze label being attached to them. Today we hear that some Labour Peers have been accused of distorting the legislative process for money, or to put it another way, bribery. Whether proven or not, I can't believe that Labour could come out of this situation without being badly damaged.
Sleaze did us in in 1997 even though the economy was strong, Labour doesn't even have that as a counterbalance.
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James,
I see a common thread between this post and comments in your last post about the BNP. The BNP have tried their hardest to exploit sleazy behaviour. All of the fine words in the world from councillors and MP's count for little when we see this sort of behaviour. I'd like to see any politicians found guilty of this sort of behaviour slung out an barred from public office on a permanent basis.
In my experience the BNP proposition doesn't stand up to any sort of scrutiny. Issues such as who will run the NHS in the BNP fantasy world, who will run the Underground, who will deliver the meals on wheel, who will be carers for pensioners - jobs typically done by immigrants.
As to what constitutes an immigrant is an even better question, Celts, Saxons, Vikings, Romans are non indigenous. I've got a Welsh mate who reckons his dads family are indigenous, but they speak Welsh and don't like the BNP or the English very much.
I once briefly had an Icelandic Girlfriend who explained to me the benefits of immigrants. She told me the reason that Icelandic women were the most beautiful in the world was because they'd gone around europe and nicked all the best lookers from everywhere else in the days of the vikings.
We can but hope, James. But this sleazy government will hang onto power until the bitter end. Hopefully this will be sooner rather than later.
The Conservative Party didn't have the BBC helping it to manage this sort of news as Labour does now. Labour has managed to manipulate the media into diminshing the importance of scandals such as these.
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