Quote Originally Posted by NinianOpinion1927 View Post
Capitalism is intertwined into socialism, if you want to eradicate Capitalism completely then you're hardleft and probably a communist.
If you don't think Brown was a socialist(i do). Can you name a country where the socialism you laud has succeeded for any length of time? And before you say Sweden, it's now the gun crime capital of Europe with voters shifting to the right over recent decades as a reaction to failed socialist policies.
No' let's stick to what I said, not go off on a tangent because you can't or won't answer my question. I was confused by a message of yours which appeared to suggest that the 2008 crash was down to Labour following socialist policies like capitalism and de regulation of banks. The policies which helped cause 2008 were nothing to do with socialism - a Labour Government continued to follow policies pursued by the previous Conservative Government (in fact they went further than the Tories when it came to deregulation) and we paid the price because of greedy bankers given powers by the politicians of all sides throughout the west.

The idea that the Tories had to come in in 2010 to sort the economy out because of Labour's left wing policies is ludicrous as they were in full support of all of the measures taken by Labour in 2008 to try and deal with the crisis. If Labour in 2008 is to carry the can for what was a crisis of global finance, then the Conservatives will have to do the same for the whole of cost of living crisis for the last two years - I don't think that's entirely fair even if the this Government, under Truss, did directly bring on aspects of it with Kwarteng's farcical budget.