Sloth, WTF does the government have to do with what people eat? I'd say that's a pretty damn personal choice.

Free Uni? My education cost 20,000+ USD/year... I don't know what you guys are bitching about.

To be honest, most of the listed woes sound kind of petty... a ban on hunting... too few houses? you live on a tiny island with millions of people. Do the math. That sort of thing is only going to get worse irrespective of the government.

Ain't no black in the Union Jack!

What's that extremely racist anti-immigration party that's running?

? quoting Addicted to Morphine

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/05/international/europe/05cnd-britain.html?hp&ex=1115352000&en=8398caee88c0fe86&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Sorry Lep

I'm not sorry, in fact I'm extremely happy that the Labour Party has won an historic third term in office, but then again I'm old enough to remember the eighteen years of misery under the conservatives.

I now feel a lot more secure about our economy, and not so worried about being able to continue to pay back the mortgage on my home.

As for corruption, well there may have been some people in the Labour party who used their positions to make personal gains, but compared to the many crooked sleazeballs the tories had when they ran the country, they are saints.

Do I get a ban for having opposing views to the #1 member?

Thanks for your response Leperous, I'm pleased that you feel there is no need for any animosity between members for holding different political viewpoints.

On a personal note, I have several reasons for being happy with Labours win. For the first nine years of my working life I was in the army, where we were expected, if not brainwashed into having a conservative outlook on life, and I fell into that way of thinking along with the majoirity of my fellow soldiers. This was also at a time when Labour was in power and the recent troubles in Northern Ireland had just got started. The trade unions had a vice like grip on the country and the economy was in a terrible state. I left the army in 1976 and my political views changed somewhat, when I had the chance to experience real life outside the institution that was military life. When the conservatives did take power in the late seventies, they took on the unions and reduced their power, and that was in retrospect probably a good thing, although I naturally hated them at the time of the miners strikes, as my brother was a coal miner. Gradually though, they introduced a very selfish mindset throughout the eighties, which although encouraging entrepeneurship and business, left a lot off the less well of in our country worse off, and the sleaze and corruption became evident (Cecil Parkinson, John Redfield, Jeffrey Archer, Leslie Hamilton, Jonathon Aitken and many more).

I know Labour are not perfect, but I want to live in a more inclusive society that looks after everyone, not matter what their background, creed or racial ethnicity, physical ability or sexuality, and I believe that for the moment, they are the party to do that. I'm not that keen on Tony Blair, but I voted on policies not personalities.

As for the hunting with dogs issue, I have nothing against hunting per se, I just believe that if a species needs to be controlled, there are far more humane ways to do so, other than terrorising an animal to exhaustion to then be torn apart by a pack of dogs.

Oh, just an aside...I live in the south-east, a small red dot in a sea of blue!

Oops ranting on a bit here....sorry guys!

At least we are fortunate enough to be free to express our opinions without fear of persecution.