Brydo, Labour should win after nearly an era of Conservative led ups and downs. If Corbyn wasn’t the party leader I would put money on a new Labour government after the GE. I’m positive that won’t be the outcome though, because voters are afraid (terrified?) of putting Corbyn into Number 10.
Some people are afraid agreed, but a week is a long time in politics Pops, so they say, so who knows where loyalties, if any, lie?
it is astonishing to me however, that people have such short memories, especially of Labour’s mis-management of the economy , during the financial crisis, and also are in complete denial that they came within a hair’s breadth of bankrupting this country & then ( the cheeky sods ) along with their supporters blame the coalition for it & now blame the Tory government for austerity etc.., which of course was only necessary due to Labour’s 13 years of economic mismanagement , & btw — with not a Tory in sight!
Labour always spend more than we have and every Labour government has left the economy worse than they inherited.
As an example , Labour have consistently lied to the country about debt situations and even claimed that “By 2007-08, the public debt was significantly below , the levels inherited in 1997:” -this was an out & out lie.
The IMF confirmed that the prosperity that Labour prided itself on was in fact a ‘debt-fuelled illusion’, and crucially, it also confirmed that 2007 was the worst year for economic overheating since at least the 1970s.
The basic fact was that the Labour government was borrowing like there’s no tomorrow, & after April 2001, Labour simply gave up on balancing the budgets.
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The price of debt was kept artificially low, so households borrowed too.
It was a mountain of debt, built upon debt. Blair, along with Brown, really does bear huge responsibility for the longest recession in our history.
Labour under Blair simply abandoned attempts to balance the books, leaving others to try and get us out of the mess they left, and who pays , even now ‘we do’ of course, the poorest in society, and if any one thinks that austerity up to now has been tough, think again, because life has been relatively easy compared to what is likely to happen if the wild Marxist spending agenda proposed by Corbyn and the ever sinister McDonnell (which will saddle us with mind blowing levels of borrowing/debt ) is implemented by Corbyn & Co.
Even Peter Mandelson has said today –
“Labour’s economic plan would devastate every day life for voters”
Yet people will still vote for them – turkeys snd Christmas