J_A_B - thanks for the explanation in your post. You're right of course, and the UK is no better, having elected Tony Blair three times since the start of 1997. In that time, our freedoms have been eroded, and the government has just got bigger and bigger and bigger... Taxes have been going up and up - the Blair govt. and in particular, Gordon Brown (who will become the PM when Blair steps down) considers our money to be their money. There's an incredible amount of govt. meddling, which costs the taxpayer dearly - issues about which people should be left to make their own choices.
