Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
I don't know how old you are, but you sound like someone who is making/has made the common left to right progression that effects so many as they go into their middle ages and beyond.

Others will say I'm wrong, but I'm proud to have maintained the left wing credentials of my youth into my sixties and so I come at things in a completely different way to you in one important respect.

For me, deregulation lay at the heart of the 2008 crash as Conservative and Labour Governments showed a laissez-faire attitude towards financial institutions which resulted in the hardly surprising endorsement of what for me is a standard belief - some rich people and companies will do all they can to get richer if allowed to, even if it means going outside the laws of the time.

All of this "small government" stuff is, in essence, an attempt to provide more for those who already have it - regulation is necessary in some quarters, because those the rules are aimed at have shown that they are incapable of looking after the interests of anyone else but themselves when left to their own devices.

yep you have hit the nail on the head, all my family are labour, I have voted labour previously, now I am 25 and starting to change my perspectives.