On 7 May, 11:11, wrote:
On Thu, 7 May 2009 02:59:21 -0700 (PDT)

wrote:
John Major's Tory government was accused of sleaze and incompetence but
nothing they did bears more than the slightest resemblance to the
institutionalised gross corruption and negligence of this NuLabour lot.

No, *everything* they did is *almost exactly identical*.

Not really. The tories were more into personal sleeze, with labour its
more political sleeze. And TBH even in the worst excesses of the Major
goverment no politicians career would survive 2 forced resignations from
government. Even Archer didn't manage that. Yet theres mandelson , still
with his finger on the pulse.

"Fangs in the ankle" is more the phrase that comes to my mind.