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Originally Posted by Kizzy

Well put joey, it's so annoying hearing them bleat on about the mess 'labour' left... the recession was global

Not only was it global, but it was the Thatcher era that left the UK wide open to the effects of it by encouraging / forcing London based corporatism to be the foundation of our economy. The foolish lady built our house upon the sand, and all that

and it was her who left so many families dependant on welfare (not to mention various substances) in the first place. There are so many whole families addled by addiction around here, and the vast majority of it can be traced back to that time. Typical pattern being, parents lost their livelihoods and everything else under Thatcher, started (and never stopped) drinking, and their inevitably miserable offspring took it that step further and turned to drugs.

Honestly, I can see there being a similar pattern this time around. This Tory term has sowed the seeds, Labour will in all likelihood now have another term whilst things develop, then the tories will get back in just as the issues seeded this time around are blossoming and claim that it's clearly nothing to do with them because they only just got into power.