BEFORE I start, I woud like to appologise for the length of the following rant.

Before you know it another election will be rolling round. Blair and Howard will be getting on their political battle-horses for another clash of the Titons, or should I say Tories. The thing is these days there seems to be no difference between the boys in red and boys in blue. Both parties are the friends of privitisation, disguised under the smoke-screen of choice for all. Both tell you their tough on crime,asylum seekers and ant-social behaviour. Both will tell you that under there leadership Britain will be great, so who should we believe? My answer is neither, both are cynical, vote-catching excuses for political parties. What we used to call the Leftwing has be destroyed by 18 years of anti-trade-unionist Tory Government and a futher seven years of a New Labour government equaly obsessed with the right wing policies, anti-trade-unionism, privatisation and free market economics of the Thatcherites themselves. Under this Labour government any reconisable connection to the independant socialist party of my great grandfarther has been abliterated.

In the old days Labour stood for the protection of British industry, fairness, equality, social justice, nationalisation, internationalism, pacfism and progress! Now, we are left with a party of fat cat busines, which cares very little about British industry. This fact is borne out by the consisting closure of car factories up and down te country, the continual decline of British farming & fishing and our increased reliance on forign goods and services, making Britain dependant on other countries fr basic needs. My great grandfarther, who was a Welsh coal miner, would be turning in his grave. As far as fairness and equality go Labour's record realy takes the biscuit. They are such a fair government that house prices are set to rise rapidly in the next four year, pushing many first-time buyers off the property ladder before they set a foot on it. How is this fair, since it will hit those from the poorest backgrounds first? Social justice, in particular Labour's handling of gay rights issues has been nothing but a calculated ploy to win the pink vote! Don't be fooled by the governments gay rights agenda, Blair would sell his granny if it kept him in power! He can pick up and drop civil rights campagns when it fvcking suits him.

The government's international record has been dredful, Iraq beeing the most current xample. By following in the footsteps of a facist American administration. They have gone against the time honoured socialist affiliaion with pacifism and the peace movment. As far as social progress goes, Labour is a shambles. The Blairites are so enlightened that they want to secretly privatise everything, by stealth; the NHS, British education, trains, busses and if left to their own devices, they would roll up the welfare state completly. We will be flung back to the dark days of Victorian England, where all social services where funded by rich benefactors. If howard where in the saddle he would do very much the same thing by a much more obvious process of slash an burn. I am so disolusionedwith both Tory parties that I'm voting for the Green party on May 5th, because I believe it is the only left wing alternative to the New Right virus, which has infected the British Labour party which continues to be bolstered by Michael "something of the night" Howard and his perthetic excuse for a conservative party.