| Homer_Simpson said: you are quite obviously elitist and out of touch with both normal people and what Left Wing politics actually is. |
I would like to think that I am a normal person. Left wing politics, in a simplified manner, is an attempt to take money from the hard-working middle class and give it to those who refuse to work, Robin Hood style. It is intended to give enormous power to the workers so that they can form massive unions, demand what they want, and get it. In theory, it should ensure equality, but equality isn't the most important thing in the world. When you are taking money and giving it to somebody else, in large quantities, that's not fair. That's not justice. You punish the worker and reward the non-worker. You take away all incentives for financial success.
The above, lumped together with a healthy dose of dictatorship and totalitarianism, is Soviet Communism. You know who believed in that? Ed M's father. But I digress.
Fortunately, Labour hasn't been like that in a very long time, if ever, and so they follow a perverse version of it which attempts to satisfy both capitalism and communism and succeeds at neither. Attlee had the right idea. Set up a National Health Service, because healthcare is the right of all people. Improve state schools, because education is the right of all people. But don't ban private insurance or private schools, because top quality education and healthcare are not the rights of all people. They are the rights of the people who have worked to be able to afford them.
They've moved right and left under a succession of politicians, becoming their most left wing in the 1980s under Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, and their most right wing, of course, under Tony Blair. Blair achieved a pretty good balance. Gordon Brown, despite his hatred for rich people, was only able to move it slightly further left. Ed Miliband will move it much further left again. He embodies everything that is bad and disgusting about left-wing politics and socialism, where Attlee embodied everything that was good and fair.
(Former) Lead Moderator and (Eternal) VGC Detective 
