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From: blp Category: Life Date: 24 May 2008 Time: 08:50 PM Review: Things weren't really better under Thatcher though were they? You were just younger and still lived at home. The main thing that got worse under Labour is that the possibility of ever having a Labour government receded. To a microscopic dot on the far horizon. Oh and then there was the thing about having a government that went to war on a false prospectus and allowed extraordinary rendition flights from UK airports and sacked the ambasador to Uzbeckistan because he criticised the government there for flaying the skin from its own citizens in cauldrons of boiling water and wanted to keep people in prison without trial and change the law so you can stop criminal investigations if they could be said to be a threat to national security, which is what they did over the BAE Saudi deals inquiry even though it wasn't legal at the time, but the judges who threw out the decision, which they are now appealing, said probably wasn't stopped for national security reasons anyway, that was just an excuse. Hey, wait a minute, maybe it has been worse. But wouldn't the Tories have done things the same way, because wasn't all that part of the new sort of new Special Relationship post 9/11 'torture is a no brainer' Cheney mind?