And taking that point on face value, it could be argued that the Left are more interested in the rights of minorities than the majority. Although I would maintain that homosexuality has little effect on wider society and therefore has no disadvantage to the majority, the fact that you highlight these particular Acts as an example of Labour making lives better suggests that they only make minorities lives better. Commendable in itself perhaps but not necessarily serving the rest of us very well.

The problem wasn't selling off council housing, but the failure to compensate and control the housing market and rental booms that followed. Which now result in people spending around half their salary on rent or mortgages.

The consequences of the housing boom (not just the selling off of council property) was to effectively create a situation where people struggle to afford accommodation, on a scale that original generation who benefited never experienced.

This really has been the failure of Conservatism of the 80s, it allowed a lot of people to 'get a leg up' but then in doing so kicked away that ladder, trusting far to much in the free market economics and trickle down effect, rather than taxation (of the new markets) and regulation of those markets (rent control).

Ending Mining, for example, wasn't necessarily the wrong move, it was abandoning those communities that were dependent on the income from that industry.

The longer they (and Labour) left it, the more problematic the impact of introducing that kind of compensatory measures of control have become with key voters that both parties court.

Governments aren't just responsible to the people who will go out and vote for them, but each and every person within a nation, and the generations that will follow. Short termism of modern politics (including Labour) and not making 'unpopular' decisions is damaging the cohesion and 'equality of opportunities' within the nation.

Popularism is a social dead end, because you always end up making gestures rather than change.

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Well its generally a choice between two increasingly similar political parties (taking the Corbyn blip out of the equation).

The pro-EU Conservative party and the Pro-EU Labour Party. The outsider, Liberal Democrats, are Pro-EU. Now that we're out of the EU, most of the work will be about remaining 'as close to the EU as possible' - especially on Freedom of Movement.

Unless UKIP survive the fact that their core issue has been resolved, then there isn't really any party that isn't a pro-corporate party. And the EU is very much a Pro-Corporate body.

And that's why they want to just 'change freedom of movement' rather than regulate migration, because economically, its massively beneficial to government and UK corporations.

If you removed the 500,000 or so EU citizens over night, the UK economy would collapse.

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Thatcher voted for and supported the decriminalisation of homosexuality, launched a monumentally effective policy against the threat of AIDs - They're not all social monsters. The conservatives also implemented a lot of social reform in mental health (maybe too much). They also reformed domestic violence and sex offence issues with policy, removed 'rape in marriage being legal', improved divorce regulations for women etc.

The problem generally hasn't been the conservatives not making life better for people, but their failure to compensate for shifts in economic change in society and to rely on the free market, and that maybe sometimes they're too slow to react to the 'pulse of social change'.

But the criticism of Labour is really that sometimes they are far to quick to react with policy and laws, rather than letting social issues resolve themselves and engaging in social change rather than legislation.

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You can add bat rights to that. People incur thousands of pounds in extra expense to fix their roofs to house f'in bats.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

I agree with your points here. It will be interesting to see if any party's manifesto offers real long term policies rather than platitudes.