Quote Originally Posted by Eric Cartman View Post
First paragraph - that is rich considering yours and ninianclarks behaviour in the other thread. Can you explain what I SAID in the other thread referred to, please?

Ofgem recently announced price controls within the energy industry. Do we have a socialist government. No.

All your examples are just proof that the Venezuelan government did a really shit job. The socialist / communist Government did a really shit job in Venezuela.

Socialism is defined as a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. That's what they all say but certainly not what they all do.

Now, can I remind you estimates suggest that hundreds of billions of dollars of oil revenue has gone 'missing' over the past decade and plenty more diverted beforehand. Does that look like a government who is following a socialist model? Yes.

Your paragraph about socialist leaders and socialists within the Labour party not being interested in the people they represent is in complete agreement with my point above about intuitive human greed. Can you not see that? People are people whether they describe themselves as socialist or not.
Not everyone is greedy as you are suggesting. It would not have been possible to do what the likes of Chavez has done in other countries.

Have you now managed to read all the bits where I gave examples of expensive socialist policies? Or are you going to conveniently ignore these?