15 years. A few short of Thatcher/Major combined. With not a single policy worth mentioning, or positive effect to society, macro trends or not, over that time period. It's been the worst government in British history. I'd like to see contendors. How the feck they managed 15 years is itself a condemnation of British politics. Miliband/Cameron was the British ballot, centrist, 10 years after it had failed in the Bush/Kerry 2004 election (giving way to Obama/Palin dichotomies, and then to Trump). The post-economic-crash landscape was not reacted to, at all, by the British establishment except by Brown, if you really think about it. Quantitative Easing is Brown's Government's response. Austerity, entirely, and above and beyond all other nations I know of with comparable exposure (liabilities in that crisis, European), Scottish indepdenence, Brexit, and the complete shafting of every public institution via selling off and underfunding over that period and then citing austerity (tighten the belt - post office, which made golden lane tory contractors a killing, because it was a profit making business, sold well below its value in first few offerings, in the first place) at every turn.
Universal Credit. Benefit Street normalized. Home Secretaries habitually tagging along for photo opportunities with police force targeting migrants and drug addicts. The erection of a fascist-welcoming apparatus in the absence, post-Corbyn, of any actual socialist threat. It's worse, socially, than Germany was in the 1920s (not after NAZI party, but before it). Germany had a legitimate civil war scenario between the genuine socialists, Luxemberg, 10s, etc., who they killed, the centrist Kaizer-light (whatever his name was that came after), and then that group which Hitler and the Brown Shirts later turned into the Nazis during the late 20s (and most notably in the early 30s as they gained legitimacy). The struggle, not to use Hitler's term, 20s Germany, did exist (it just wasn't Hitler's mad attempt at pretending he was the centre of it).
People say it's an overreaction to cite totalitarianism/fascism, but it's not. Early 20s Germany, when it rebounds, is somewhat liberal, etc., no support for far right parties, at all (zero, you have to go to the 30s for that swing) was forged in a climate of post-actual-War and pre-worse-depression than the 2008 crisis.
Morally bankrupt, fiscally bankrupt, ethically non-existent, and, barring gay marriage, which was a trend across Europe (but give them that), nothing worth remembering. Worthless people doing damaging things. 15 years.Moving the UK closer to a failed US model of complete social farce, after the US, itself, has, via the orthodoxy of the Dem/GOP (not fringe/Trump of that GOP side) pivoted from it. A complete joke. Imagine, then, blaming Corbyn for Brexit (a Tory backbench, poxy gentlemen's club, economic agenda). And getting the media, totalitarian creep, plus some people, to go along with it. These are spoofers. Chancers with Etonian accents.
Thatcher studied a specific form of economic agenda which I don't agree with but she and her cabinet weren't a bunch of complete fecking idiots playing schoolboy games.
The Olympics, a Blair-Brown legacy iirc, that bid, and gay marriage. Then the slow demise of everything good about the UK. The worst government of all time.
Starmer knows he has the election won by default. He's doing as much as he can to alienate the labour base, knowing they'll either stay home or vote for the cnut with gritted teeth, whilst peeling off middle and right(ish) Tories with every single statement he makes. But what is the ethos of the labour manifesto? Buzzwords, Thick of It policies, and more of the same minus a veneer. The country has gone to absolute shit. It has potential but there is no vision there and what vision there is lacks complete substance in terms of how to implement it.
