What is the difference between the Labour party and the Liberal democrats?
All the parties compromise their principles once in Government. Pragmatists tend to stay in office. All believe in a mixed free market economy, tempered by varying amounts of Government intervention. Big Government took over the money supply because the financial institutions were too corrupt to be capable of it any longer, and the alternative was a run on the banks and the catastrophic collapse of the whole economy. The main difference is the composition of their core vote. Labour traditionally gets its support from the urban working class with a fair smattering of middle-class ideologues and centralisers. More recently, they have been rebranded by image consultants, with little recognisable principle and a breaking relationship with their traditional backers – the trades unions. The LibDems’ core vote are from the eccentric thinking middle class, comprising a hotch-potch of teachers, professors, mad scientists, and Celtic tribalists. They don’t try very hard to be coherent or agree w
