Quote Originally Posted by lisvaneblue View Post
Im old enough to remember the last time a left wing labour government was in charge. They overspent big time and in 1975 we had to go cap in hand to the IMF for a bailout. The conditions imposed made the current austerity look like a treat. There were cuts everywhere, roads not gritted, bins not emptied, some difficulty in even arranging funerals. Then the miners went on strike and we ended up with a infamous 'three day week' with power cuts and generally misery to preserve coal.
I never want to see that sort of thing again in a good country like ours....but it looks as if we might be heading that way.
Seems like you have no idea what Labour are proposing, then. Scandinavian countries work well on centre left politics. Seems like a tidy blueprint to me.