'TRADITIONAL' Labour were the party of higher income tax on the working pubic, so one thing is unavoidably correct and that is true Labour governments of the past have been tax-and-spend governments.
But after Thatcher and the rest of the Tories coined that 'tax-and-spend' mantra, for a time Labour became un-electable.
Tony Blair made Labour ? under the guise of New Labour ? electable again by dragging the party over to the right wing.
Both Blair and Gordon Brown then proceeded to continue to tax and spend by redesigning the taxation base away from direct taxation and on to stealth taxation.
After a while even this kind of taxation became not enough to finance all of the policies that they wanted to finance and that was when the borrow to spend policies got out of hand.
Whereas Margaret Thatcher's era began the underfunding of our vital services based on the Tory ethos of low income on the general public, and trickled down economic investment into our vital services.
Unfortunately Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in my view, literally wasted their 13 years in Government by keeping to the right-wing low income tax agenda of the Thatcher era, but they did invest more money into our vital services, and it is this investment that has helped rack up the deficit that Cameron and the Tories want to cut.
This deficit now gives the Tory leader a chance to go back to Tory roots and slash investment en masse, jobs will be lost and unemployment will soar as it did in the 80s and 90s, because all the cuts being announced now, are just a small per cent of the whole £160billion, there are five years to go before the next general election, so there is much more insecurity and uncertainty to come for the ordinary British public.
Let me make this clear, everything pursued by the former New Labour Government was initiated by Margaret Thatcher, because New Labour ditched their own core policies of fairness and equality when they came to power in 1997, in favour of Margaret Thatcher's low income tax deregulated, free market policies resulting in a mammoth rich and poor devide, that unfortunately New Labour made wider.
Now the Tories are back with a vengeance, to cut New Labour's built up deficit, hoping the public will back them.
Yet the public benefited in many ways under New Labour because New Labour would not increase income tax through their 13 years in office to do the things they wanted to do, they had a long term plan to reduce the deficit, while also protecting front line services and jobs.
The people of this country who voted Tory at the recent general election, again in my view, clearly had no idea what they were really doing, now they, their friends, families, and children, will suffer the consequences in one way or another over the next five years.
The suffering hasn't even begun yet ? a lot of tears will fall in the next few years as hundreds of thousands, if not millions, are thrown on the scrapheap and sacrificed on the altar of Tory political dogma, while the Lib-Dems will most likely be swallowed up, while losing millions of their supporters.
And while all this is happening, the one section of our society, of our country that have suffered the worse, are not the middle classes, it is the elderly, particularly those old enough to have fought for this country, they have and are continuing to be ignored by the politicians, and by the media.
Our pensioners are being made to live on a £97 a week state pension , and humiliating demeaning means tested handouts.
Britain's middle clsses dont know their living in this deeply self interested country of ours, while they argue about losing their "non" means tested Child Benefit.
Our pensioners remain being means tested for handouts from the State.
There is a deep disparity here in income between the elderly generations who have already spent their entire working lives paying taxes and NI conributions into the system, only to be basically thrown on the scrap heap by the system that has been in place since Thatcher.
Compared to today's middle classes who are by defination considerably better off in general, to today's pensioners.
Millions of whom are living in poverty, and who suffer hypotherima related illness, due to their income being so low, and means testing applied, which many elderly people feel humiliated by because they have pride having come through much harder times than us.
And no, im not a pensioner.