I couldn't give a toss about any political party, they're all essentially the same but with different colour schemes.
So viewing actual fact rather than through red-tinted spectacles:
- Labour's 1997-2010 tenure included the most spectacular foreign policy disaster in British history, Tony Blair forcing Britain in to an unprovoked invasion of Iraq which killed 100,000s of people and collapsed the region, and lead to the Islamist takeover of various parts of the Middle East and North Africa, and the resulting terror attacks and mass displacement of people we've experienced since.
- If you discount Labour's handling of the financial crisis (which happened 9 years in to their government, in which time they could've changed banking regulation, by the way), then do you discount the impact of Covid on the Tories' legacy, because that was also a 'global crisis'?
It'll be nice when people realise that they're all as bad as each other, rather than sticking up for people who don't care about you or your community.
I certainly don’t have red tinted spectacles, I will call out any government who act inappropriately against the good of the public, but in response to your points above.
1. The destabilisation of Iraq and the aftermath were a result of the acts of war initiated by Iraq when they invaded Kuwait,
Then when they slaughtered their own people to stop an uprising and refused to comply with the UN with regards to its weapons policy.
As a result, British MPs including the non governing Tory’s were given a vote on whether to go to war and voted to do so.
To pin this completely on Blair’s government and call it a failure of foreign policy is in my opinion at best fanciful and nothing more than political point scoring.
Also, it’s amazing people never remember who was in power and brought peace and the Good Friday Agreement to fruition when talking about that government.
2. I m aware Labour did nothing to change the deregulation brought about by Thatchers government, just as they didn’t re-nationalise everything the Tory’s sold off.
However, I’m not sure how you can compare the management of the financial crisis and the bailing out of the banks to the blatant corruption and theft of public money in dodgy covid contracts and covid fraud which was allowed to be carried out by the last government. Thats pretty incredible mental gymnastics in my opinion.
I’m not in disagreement with you that the majority get screwed over in this country whichever one of them is in.
However, the one big difference between them has always been that Labour have done more for working people and families than the Tory’s have ever done. So that in my view is why I would always side with them.
