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You really twist yourself around here. But this? > Decades of populist left or centre-left governments have kept the prices artificially low whilst requiring i
by happymellon 1y ago
You really twist yourself around here. But this?
> Decades of populist left or centre-left governments have kept the prices artificially low whilst requiring investment, resulting in a huge accumulation of debt.
Bloody Tories, the whole problem isn't that they were in charge for 32 years from 1979-2024, it's the 13 years of Blair. They have been powerless to stop the spooky Left and fix the pipes before the water was privatised (or anything afterwards, because obviously it's still the Left)!
- qcnguy 1y agoThe Tories are a centre-left party. That's why they lost the support of conservative voters at the last election and are now in the doldrums, with much of their base having defected to Reform.
- ahartmetz 1y agoMaybe they are now (I doubt it), but they surely weren't under Thatcher.
- qcnguy 1y agoCorrect. But by "decades" I meant in the 40 years since Thatcher.
- cma 1y agoWater was privatized in the 90s after Thatcher.
- happymellon 1y agoThe pipes that "are Victorian and should have been replaced before privatisation" were around before then. They have had plenty of time to replace them.
- overfeed 1y agoThe Tories decided to flank Farage from the right during the last elections. Calling them "centre-left" is a joke.
- Der_Einzige 1y agoYou must think that the lib dems are now more conservative than them. Bullocks. All of your argument is bullocks
- happymellon 1y ago> The Tories are a centre-left party. Oh boy. That's funny. > much of their base having defected to Reform. Yes, they found a party they will say the quiet bits out loud, so they don't feel as uncomfortable being bigots and racists.
- p1necone 1y agoI was hopeful that the eventual endgame of right wingers blaming everything on the left when the right was in charge for literal decades would be for them to eventually maybe consider that that wasn't the problem. Turns out I was wrong, all it takes is to no-true-scotsman everything into the "bad wrong left wing" bucket on the quest to move the overton window ever rightwards. Hilarious. The mental gymnastics knows no bounds.
- Podrod 1y ago>The Tories are a centre-left party. You honestly believe this? If so: Jesus H. Christ!