No Windfall Tax

#168

The point you miss is that most, if not all the achievements you list are under the Premiership of a certain Tony Blair. Gordon Brown was the Chancellor.

Now, Tony stood for election before the British people, he had a mandate, he faced the electorate as leader of the labour partyand labour MPs won the confidence of the electorate, and Tony as leader had legitimacy. He even won despite the war in Iraq.

Now, that is the problem with Gordon Brown. He has never stood for election as leader with a mandate. If he had forced a windfall tax all this would have gone to the courts because I consider that it would have been unconstitutional and the energy companies would have appealed against its imposition. I think that they would have won. That's why there is no windfall tax, the courts, and the Lords would probably have thrown it out.

So, despite all that has been 'achieved' by labour since 1997, none of it is relevant, Gordon was not the leader of the labour party, and he has no mandate, and he took over as a result of a coup. Well that's what I think anyway.