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Thrifty non-licker
May was a Remainer and she's heading up the negotiations.....you tell me.
But not now. Don't see the point of your question.
May was a Remainer and she's heading up the negotiations.....you tell me.
Replace distain for a stronger word then. The point remains the same.
Blair was PM though, we are discussing his Government, I thought
I think his foreign policy in regards to the Middle East, and his slavish behaviour, with regard to Bush and America, is denounced by most commentators, but, his home policies, were far better than anything we have had since. The NHS waiting lists were at their lowest over recent times, lending rates were at a record low, inflation was at an equal low, as was unemployment. We didnt enter the Euro, with hindsight, an excellent decision, and, we had the Good Friday Agreement. Nit too shabby, from a lite weight, oh, and he won three consecutive General Elections
True, but Blair wanted to join the EURO and had o back down. This is generally accepted as fact.
Swiftly followed by Cameron, in Libya, now another basketcase, ungovernable, and ripe for a Daesh incursion.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but, Cameron should have taken note of Iraq and kept well out of it.
Hindsight,eh?
It should be pointed out that there is an economic cycle. Good times and bad times (unless you belive the BS of Gordon 'end of boom and bust' Brown). Therefore in the 'good times' of the early noughties, we should have been paying down the government debt. However, the Labout government were on a spending spree and also committing future governments to large expenditure on PFI projects, which are (for some insane reason) not accounted as national debt, even though they are liabilities.
The Labour spending plans weren't sustainabale, especially with the demographic time-bomb of an aging population and the extra demand they make in terms of pensions/NHS etc.
Shame a million people on the streets of London, couldn't get him to back down on the Iraq war.
And yet, we can still afford a replacement for Trident,
All about priorities, i suppise.
That's just deflection. You're going on about how good Blair was and he didn't join the EURO. I've pointed out that he wanted to, so deflecting to another one of his f*ckups doesn't negate my point.
Sorry, I wasn't saying how good Blair was, I thought he was a tw@, but, with most domestic policies, he was better than anything we have had since.
I have always voted Labour, Blair was a light blue Tory in a lot of things, however, he did get a lot right, especially in hus first term, but as his time went on, he got less and less right.
It should be pointed out that there is an economic cycle. Good times and bad times (unless you belive the BS of Gordon 'end of boom and bust' Brown). Therefore in the 'good times' of the early noughties, we should have been paying down the government debt. However, the Labout government were on a spending spree and also committing future governments to large expenditure on PFI projects, which are (for some insane reason) not accounted as national debt, even though they are liabilities.
The Labour spending plans weren't sustainabale, especially with the demographic time-bomb of an aging population and the extra demand they make in terms of pensions/NHS etc.
And yet, we can still afford a replacement for Trident,
All about priorities, i suppise.
Historically or with conviction?
I have mixed views about a nuclear deterrent. I wish we didn't need it, as it's never going to be used. However, it's about influence/power I feel. I'm not saying it's right.
Again though, you have ignored the point about over-spending/PFI and again deflected to a different topic - this time Trident.
Had we not had the financial meltdown in 2008, that (hardly) anyone saw coming, who's to say Labours policies wouldn't have been a fiscally successful as they weee socially.
deficit was increasing and forecast to increase further, while economy was turning downward, before the bank problems emerged. Labour policy was banking on a perpetual steady GDP growth and moderate interest rates, so highly unlikely this would have continued indefinatly. it was seen coming and commented on at the time that it was a shock away from recession...