From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   ... you find yourself broadly agreeing with this man. Who wrote it? Answer   
   at the bottom:   
      
   'By any standards the present political scene is depressing. The electors   
   this year gave all parties votes of no confidence. Howard and Blair combined   
   votes came to 18.3 million. The abstainers were not many fewer at 17   
   million. In the face of that no confidence vote in both Labour and   
   Conservative parties as they set out their policies in May of this year, it   
   can be nothing less than utter folly for a new Conservative Leader to try to   
   lead the Party into the so-called 'middle ground' of New Labour. First,   
   because it is most certainly not the middle ground - and, second, because it   
   is where neither Conservative voters - nor many Labour voters - want to be.   
   As for winning back to the polling booths the 5 million or so former   
   Conservative voters by telling them that a Conservative Government would   
   build on Blair's legacy in the way that Blair built on Thatcher's legacy   
   that is a double barrelled nonsense. First it is a nonsense because Blair   
   has not built on the Thatcher legacy - he has destroyed it. And, secondly,   
   because the Blair legacy is a poisonous legacy. It is a legacy of power   
   ceded from Parliament and citizens to the authorities in Brussels, and one   
   of vastly increased taxation and regulation. Britain has been losing ground   
   in terms of the world league of table of competitiveness while we are   
   wallowing in debt. The civil service has been politicised; the police force   
   and army are being politicised; promotion at higher levels is open only to   
   the politically correct. Bit by bit our defence forces are being committed   
   to the European Union not to NATO. Our border controls are virtually   
   dismantled and illegal immigration is out of control.'   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   Norman Tebbit in the Salisbury Review. It's a pompous looking mag and old   
   Scroot is consulting editor - the website is chock full of childish typos.   
      
   http://www.salisbury-review.co.uk/   
      
      
   --   
   'Negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit   
   ridiculous, and genius contemptible.'   
   Samuel Johnson   
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