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Basically everything in the UK needs reform as far as I'm concerned. We've had the same party in government for 12 years now and it shows.

• Beltalowda 5y ago
  That's pretty much the exact same thing people said at the end of the Blair/Brown Labour years. And their decade+ of power isn't a decade I'm looking at with great fondness either (politically speaking anyway). I think the bigger issue is just that the political system doesn't work very well, and hasn't for quite some time. Part of this is due to the system itself (e.g. first-past-the-post constituencies), and part of it is cultural (e.g. a nasty mean-spirited press insistently ridiculing politicians for a slightly awkward photo of eating a sandwich).
  • mhh__ 5y ago
    Poor people lives got better under Blair, whereas the Tories have gutted large amounts of the state. If it wasn't for Iraq people would (and do if you ask them specifics) look back on New Labour policy favourably. It's very easy to wax poetical about systemic change, and I often will too, but i don't want this government's absolutely awful record to be swept under a rug of abstraction.
    • aahortwwy 5y ago
      > If it wasn't for Iraq But it was.
• formerkrogemp 5y ago
  The slightest majority always blame labour when it's been the Tories in power for over a decade with all of the scandals. People can and will vote against their own interests out of spite.