New labour (From Barry And District News)

New labour

I reply to a recent correspondent who criticised my description of this "New Labour" Government as "diabolical."

May I ask why this is the first Labour Government to widen the gap between rich and poor; extend privatisation, rather than advance the private sector; leave on the statute books anti-trade union laws; and abandon the principles of peace and international law, to give up with a reckless, aggressive, reactionary US administration?

Furthermore, I believe the true test of a civilised society is how that society looks after its afflicted, its elderly and sick. Everyone, apart from Labour politicians knows it is failing horrendously in this regard.

Christopher Short Redbrink Crescent Barry Island