bottled and a referendum denied, gold sold at half price and council tax doubled, bad news buried and mandelsonresurrected, pension funds destroyed and foreign prisoners not deported, gurkhas kept out and extremist preachers allowed in. yes, they deserve some blame and we'll never let them forget it. but the point i want to make is this. the state of our nation is not just determined by the government and those who run it. it is determined by millions of individual actions -- by what each of us do and what we choose not to do. yes, labor failed to regulate the city properly. but they didn't force those banks to take massive risks with other people's money. yes, labor tried to boss people around and undermined responsibility. but they weren't the ones smashing up our town centers on a friday night or sitting on their sofas waiting for their benefits. yes, labor centralized too much and told people they could fix every problem. but it was the rest of us who swallowed it, hoping that if the government took care of things, perhaps we wouldn't have to. too many people thought 'i've paid my taxes, th