Mr Britain

How much of Britain's woes is down to the lefty Labour government?/?

They have got it all wrong; the barmy PC campaign disguised as human rights; poorly managed immigration and the resultant ethnic disconnect;terrorists living off the country they hate; criminals with more rights than their victims.The yob mentality and binge drinking are out of control , headlines like "Boy, 11 shot dead by 12 year old"; "Examiner admits GCSEs are being dumbed down"; "Paedophile admits sex with 18 month old baby but escapes jail." No wonder Britons are leaving in record numbers, is it too late to reverse the trend if we have an incompetent government which ignores the wishes of its electorate.Not a single shot has been fired (except by yobs),yet the country is run by a foreign power.Mr Straw as Foreign secretary said in 2004 "...a referendum on the EU would take place in 2006 if the Labour party win a third term in office." Gordon Brown also raised our hopes of a referendum when he stood for Parliament in 2005 on a manifesto which promised a referendum. Promises!!! Fur Q, I never read the Sun, it's a comic. I certainly don't look up to footballers and celebrities (overpaid prima donnas). I am however saddened by the way this country has gone downhill, don't say you haven't noticed...who do you blame then if not the liberal lefty PCs and Labour?..they're the ones with the power (or not). Tiggsy, I'm probably older than you and remember the Tories, things were nrver as bad as this. The government have no idea how many immigrants are here legally, let alone illegally, shootings are now a daily occurrence, very rare in the 60s. family values are being eroded and discipline in schools and on the streets are at an all time low...or if I'm wrong, correct me. drjohndee, please correct my spelling /grammar if you can (I realize never is not spelt nrver but that was a typo.) Alan h...what's remotely racist about what I've written??Go on tell me, immigrants are of every race so it can't be that.If PC isn't lefty, tell me what it is. Blair might not have said that but his party is ruining our society, it bears no resemblance to the law-abiding decent society of years gone by, not even a pinkie like you could argue with that.

Public Comments

1. stop blaming the government and stop reading the sun and start taking responsibility for your own life and start being a role model for your kids instead of looking to footballers and pop stars for role models
2. Most of it,but Thatcher allowing lawyers to advertise and work on a no win no fee basis brought about the litigation culture. If you had to pay to sue the prison service etc for the infringements of your human rights we would not see such ridiculous cases being tried and won.
3. It's really only people who swallow the British press whole that would see it this way, and of course, people too young to remember the horrors of the previous Conservative government. Don't let other people do your thinking for you, particularly when they are using sensationalism to sell newspapers.
4. I think a lot of the problems come from the human rights act. In the paper yesterday Ann Widdecombe commented that one 13 year old who was out a midnight, was marched home by her stepfather. Child calls police who advise stepfather that is assault and is infringing on her human rights. So while the parents are a lot to blame for everything according to society what can the parents do? I say we excuse ourselves from the human rights act and make some harsher rules.
5. Most of Britain's woes are due to unthinking citizens like yourself being spoon-fed hatred and bile by a sensationalist and hypocritical media. How many of those ungrammatical and misspelled assertions have you checked for factual accuracy and / or meaning? I like living in a country where it is considered unacceptable to verbally and physically abuse large groups of people because of their skin colour, gender, sexual proclivities or whatever. Would you like it if I screamed obscenities into your grandmother's ear all day long? I dunno, it's PC gone mad ...
6. Labour is not left. It used to be but it's not now. It's just ineffectual. I think it's centre ground slightly right. The PC thing is an inability to commit it's self to make a stand I think.
7. EASTENDERS...Is to blame kids get mean nasty hateful spiteful jealous unfaithful mega-dumb role models. Eastenders never watch Eastenders. there you go! CORRIE is partly to blame. THing is though, they are people who really like each other, acting as if they hate each other. The reverse is true of Eastenders. Dump the Soaps support Hope
8. If you think this Government is 'lefty' I do wonder where you have been living. You are, however, entitled to your right wing, near-racist views. But at least even Blair did not say that there was no such thing as society!!
9. A large amount of it.
10. WHAT LEFT GOVERNMENT... Blair has keppt thatchers crappy conservative policies. the previous labour govenments were left wing and would never have introduced tuition fees in uni etc... If you want lefty look at how nice it is to live in euopean socialist leaning countries with far more socity and less crime
11. i say much of britains woes are down to this clown outfit called mistakenly a government. In fact, i don't believe there is one singlular party that is capable of governing properly at all.
12. They've simply given our country away. It is impossible to get it back. While we remain members of the EU, foreign workers are free to stream into our midst in unrestricted numbers, regardless of the fact that our small island cannot cope. Were we to attempt to leave the EU, it would be interpreted as an act of war. Even if the government had fulfilled its promise of introducing a referendum it would have been like the previous one -- the only one in our history so far -- cunningly worded in such a way as to prompt the desired answer. The last one was about our accession to the EU. Had we been asked beforehand, we would have said no (as the Conservative government of the time well knew). Having joined, we were then asked if we wished to leave and given the consequences of so doing, it seemed reasonable to vote no. Had we had any inkling of what would happen in the years ahead, I think that consequences or not, there would have been a resounding yes vote for leaving.