Causing a financial meltdown with his bank deregulation and light touch monitoring which caused our banking system to collapse and cost hundreds of billions. Causing a reversal of spending increases and introducing an age of austerity. So no thanks for that.
Which began in US with bad mortgage controls&banking policies. The fall out of RBS was very serious & the state had to intervene to stop all ATMs being closed as Banks panicked. Yes the leader of RBS lost his knighthood. But initially these were US events that hit the West.Iceland's banking melted
"It wasn't me gov!, nothing to do with my government that was running the economy for 10 years before the financial crisis, it was everyone else's fault"
And lets remind ourselves in 2010 that Lab nearly won a 4th term as Tories did not get maj. Meanwhile in Scotland New Lab at same GE had a strong showing, massive win again with 41 MPs out of 59. New Labour delivered & ppl were pleased.
No they werent, because you didnt get back into power for 14 years, and even when Labour did it wasnt because anyone like them, it was because they hated the Tories even more.
Some of that was a Mr Corbyn which I can assure drove many of us out of the Lab party.I was of course referring to New Lab which won 4 times in Scotland.Time will tell with this govt who clearly are poor at communicating but yet all wages are up,healthcare, hospital apps are up, public services too
Corbyn got 500,000 more votes than Starmer.......
So what? he lost the election in 2019. And left areas I know, here's 3, Kent,Essex and Hertfordshire with just one MP! Now we have 51 Labour MPs. So you know what you can do with Far Left leaders, dump them. Corbynism was is & remains a political rubbish tip of 'performative', powerless,dogma.
Less popular than Corbyn, doing shit in the polls, havent done anything in power. We all hate Labour and we're going to be voting for the Greens or Corbyns party. All the racist Labour voters are going to be voting Reform. Get ready for Tory style electoral annihilation
Yes about King Corbyn the unpopular, It's hit me if ppl do vote for him in a very divided election their vote will block Lab or Lib Dems winning over the Far Right fascists( like Germany early 1930s) Voting Corbynist is a 'performative' action: it doesn't achieve power,change anything just selfish
Hopefully by 2029 the Lab movement will have got this govt looking like a Social Democratic one, kicked out McSweeney,Nandy (loves BBC Farage bias) & replaced them with hard hitters, real communicators etc.,
Where are you in the polls now?
Oh yes that's why banks collapsed in USA,Ireland, Iceland,Greece later, amazing that Tony was running them all! Was it not the 2008 summit where all the G20 leaders gave Gordon Brown a standing ovation for his initiatives in response to the financial crisis. He slashed rates here cutting mortgages
Life is not simplistic or perfect but for UK after 4 Tory govts & awful Neoliberalism which split UK, New Lab brought more prosperity,better life chances,more uni places,more hospitals, better 6th forms, moreGPs,devolution for Scot meritocracy,more jobs in IT,life sciences, business, increasing GDP