Snoopy: we have had "privatisation" as selling off is called over here....and what has happened....the products have gotten dearer. For instance, electricity, telephones and the like.

Bernice: Isn't it rich that the ones that designed the system that got us into this mess are the same ones designing the system to getting us out!

Snoopy: This is exactly the case in the US it seems. It seems that in politics, you have two sides of a one sided coin. A bit of a contradiction I know. But that's politics: They tend to live in a world of contradiction. They live in a world of villainous demons - most of which tend to be mere shadows. Politicians like to make things up. And many people, it seems, are programmed to accept what they hear. Much like in the era of McCarthyism, most of the villains are simply made up by the politicians to keep their side in the advantage, as opposed to the other. A bit of a tug-of-war, politics style.

And of course, most politicians have no idea of peoples' real needs or what to do about problems except to make up some strange promises that in the end, will never work. And on it goes.

Snoopy: The mess goes back to the time of the Iron lady, it was under her Government that the rules of expenses were changed, but at the same time Labour did not speak up. Basically, they are all guilty. as they all felt we would not care or know. It's thank to a whistle blower that they've been caught red handed.

As to whether the Tories will do better.. .. .. I'm hearing to much baby kissing from them at the moment, which does not lead to me having confidence. Though that their leader is saying "pay back or else you won't be allowed to stand for election", which is more than Labour are saying.