bobdobbs

The basic reason is that all the services are being slowly privatised so the money is filtered up to the top. NHS has to use private services. Rail is split up into Track maintenance, and Train rental companies.. schools are being sold off with the Academies system. Basically the conservatives started selling everything off, and labour has carried on taking it to another level; getting away with selling bits even the tories wouldn't dare to.

What a great way to start a sentance "The British, never fond of... seriously, how can a country not be fond of children, wtf.

This article offers nothing constructive whatsoever and the title is misleading.

http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/2/333 "This article discusses the founding of the Manhattan Institute as part of a wider mobilization of conservative ideology and activism in 1970s New York. Important to the success of this mobilization was the concerted effort to reframe the "urban crisis" as a problem of values and culture and to construct a narrative of moral decline—and ultimately of conservative redemption—based in liberal New York."

- So thats where their coming from then.

Just out of interest; how old were you when you switched to 10PM ?