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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 gr
by Beltalowda 4y 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__ 4y agoPoor 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 4y ago> If it wasn't for Iraq But it was.