steve mcpartland, there's lots of us now.said to me the other day, there are more scouse—born tories now than there are labour. and i definitely think thatthe atmosphere in the city during the 19705 and �*80s kind of radicalised the generation of young people to become conservatives. you know, we all watched as the hard left under derek hatton essentially destroyed the city. and we got into the what did neil kinnock call it in that famous speech? the grotesque chaos is what he described liverpool as at the time. what is sad is i think i can remember the speech, the grotesque chaos, he said, of people scuttling around in taxis with redundancy notices to their own workers. we're showing our age in our political nerdiness. but for people who don't remember, this was derek hatton was running militant with a capital m — that's the name of an organisation, not a description — faction that was running liverpool council. but it made you think what at that time? well, it made me think that there must be a better way. there must be a b