Re: @TheVogon - Pyhrric victory
Oh dear, LucreLout, I see little point in continuing with this.
You make personal attacks and claims about the "lack of intellectual rigour" of my position, but yours is simply "it's all the fault of the unions" and "the politics of envy" and "I'm alright Jack".
You also somehow think that Blair was Left Wing, but fail to realise that he was only to the "left" of the Tories because they were about as far to the Right as Genghis Khan.
The absolute epitome of the ludicrousness of your arguments is where you say that a Minimum Wage job or a Zero Hours contract allows someone to buy a house!
Please, LucreLout, come and join the rest of us in the real world.
And feel free to have the last word (which will, no doubt, be a smug ad hominem...)