Re: CO2 and global warming

From: Andrew Gray (andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: 26 Sep 2004 20:03:18 GMT

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On 2004-09-26, Alex Terrell <alexterrell@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote in message news:<slrnclbv51.8nf.andrew.gray@compsoc.dur.ac.uk>...
>>
>> (There are still socialists in the Labour Party; most of them seem to be
>> hanging on out of blind optimism these days. But it's a far cry from
>> the less-than-glory-days of, say, 1980...)
>
> Gordan Brown for one, who has presided over the biggest tax rises in
> peace time history, and by blocking reform has prevented significant
> improvements in public services despite all the extra money, and who
> has reduced the compettiveness of the British economy to the point
> where it's sliding down the international rankings of competiveness.
> Oh - and he has just bankrupted your pension fund.

I think you may be underestimating the capacity of UK.plc to massively
***-up without any aid from Number 11, to be fair. I mean, most of them
*already* bankrupted their pension funds...

> Is that who you meant?

Brown still runs off with nice fluffy ideas - there's a decent
likelihood we'll see the next election marked by the psychologically
important £5/hour minimum wage - but I'd be loathe to describe most of
what he does as "socialist". It is often at odds with that nice Mr
Blair's ideas, mind you...

(That said, I read the news and find he's going to announce cancellation
of most of our third-world debt. Could prove interesting)

I was, to be fair, thinking of all those vaguely bemused backbenchers,
now in power and not entirely comfortable with where the party's heading
but at least it's going somewhere. There's still a largish Old Labour
rump, just not a very powerful one. 

-- 
-Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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