Clearly you haven’t read my entire post. Not once did I or would I defend the current government but just saying a Labour Government would be 10 times better with no foundation is laughable. The way they left the country after their last term would suggest they are no more competent or capable.
The way they left the country after their last term in power?
What was Alistair Darling supposed to do when the banking crises hit? Let the banks crash?
The government at the time was widely praised for its actions in preventing a total financial meltdown. It had nothing to do with Labour policies, which, let me remind you, had improved public services, reduced child poverty, and had overseen the largest increase in our standards of living of any government in power.
Lies from Cameron, waving that note around which was a traditional self depricating message all outgoing Chancellors had left for their replacements, and started as a joke by Winston Churchill in the 1920's, was the excuse Cameron had wanted for years so he could begin his policy of austerity. Youth intervention programmes were cut, police numbers were cut, social care was cut, Remploy was disbanded, 50,000 nurses and doctors were cut, 23,000 hospital beds were removed, savage decisions regarding the employabilty of disabled people were introduced, education funding was cut.....
Those were political, not financial, decisions, as admitted by David Cameron in his autobiography, and widely condemened as unnecessarily cruel and unjustified.
I appreciate you aren't defending the current government, but every single aspect of socialism we hold dear, be it the NHS, paid holidays, pensions, employment protections, consumer rights, environmental standards, and whatever else you can think of, has been introduced by a Liberal or Labour government.
Every single one of those benefits was opposed by the tories, but have a think about this.
A couple of years ago, the tories voted against providing hungry kids with free meals during the school holidays. It would cost too much money, they reasoned. A few weeks ago, a mini budget was announced that would give billions away to those that aren't short of a bob or two.
We have one of the largest imbalances of wealth in the world, millions are sitting at home at the moment effectively living in a third world country because they are choosing to eat or heat, can't afford their rent, can't access dental treatment, and have to wait two weeks to see a doctor.
I can't think of any Labour government which has reduced so many hard working people into the levels of poverty Charles Dickens would recognise. I can recognise the bullshit ' There is no money left' has had on the country and the devastating way waving that note around has impacted so many people in the 5th most prosperous nation on earth.
