But not New Labour. New Labour want to see the end of Corbyn so they can get back to business. New Labour sat further right than Thatcher and Major. New Labour paved the way for the government we see today. The majority of people who support today's Labour party were no fan of New Labour.

New Labour, the Tories and even the coalition are guilty of playing a heavy hand in privatizing what was once publicly owned and its been going on since Thatcher. demonising the trade unions was necessary if they were going to succeed because they were the main body fighting to save the jigsaw puzzle of sell offs. This is not about what New Labour did in 2004, its about what’s been happening to our NHS since Thatchers 3rd term in office in 1987. The sell off has happened and it happened right under our noses without us being aware before it was too late. Changing the doctors contracts of 2004, the nurses contracts of 84 or the catering contracts of 88 and the Health and Social Care act of 2010 are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things because the NHS is not a bubble, its many separate entities.

Many of us in my family are NHS workers and we have had a front row seat in watching the ruling classes systematically sell off and destroy our National Health Service.

Indeed it is, in at least these last 2 elections particularly it leaves less to understand as to it taking place.

We haven't had six years of austerity because of the last NL government! We have had six years of austerity because austerity is part of neoliberal economic preference! All neoliberal governments employ austerity because its their economic ideal.

The only way they could follow that preference was to rid the country of creeping socialism and that's why our government puts the world crash squarely on Browns shoulders and the tragic thing is, so many of us bought into that lie.

The crash may have been considerably worse DR too, had the Cons been in.
The Cons felt Labour regulated the banks too much,Howard and Cameron would have then regulated the banks far less.

You are right to say that is a lie laid on only Browns and the then govts.shoulders.

That crash was coming no matter what any govt.was doing or what Party was in power either,no one in the UK or even across the World in any way really saw it coming at all.

Have you not heard of policies. Many/most people weigh up the pros and cons of the various different policies of the parties rather than just concentrate on the one policy that affects them personally. Some look at the bigger picture and long-term potential affects of such policies overall.

It's a far wider playing field than you suggest.

It really isn't, Tories will win by a landslide because people will vote for familiarity whether it benefits them or not and Ex-Remainer Theresa May is appealing to brexiters by promising a hard brexit (A stance she'd easily change depending on which way the wind is blowing).

Brexit is the new immigration in that it's a buzzword to get people to mindlessly vote for whichever candidate is using it and Theresa May is fully aware of that.

No doubt about it. It wasn’t only Cameron and Osborne who pleaded with Brown not to help the banks out with government funds, it was Bush too, but in the end the US copied Browns plan to the letter. Brown broke the fall and every nation after, played catch up. You have to wonder what Cameron and Osborne would of done; I think we can be fairly certain there would have been no stimulus!

Nobody's suggesting Brown saw the financial brick wall that was approaching but then nobody did. Neither are they suggesting that we should of let banks run like casino’s but that was happening the western world over and ended being a very hard lesson to us all.

Regardless of what the Tories tell us, he was the right man at the right time. How Gordon Brown and Mervyn King handled the crisis was nothing short of heroic but whilst King received a knighthood, Brown became person-non-grata.

And here lies a poster who clearly doesn't have the first clue about what he's sprouting.