Slowest recovery since the 1920's. Sudden realisation that ideological austerity isn't the answer.

You seem to ignore the fact that only two Labour governments have ever left office leaving the national debt higher as a percentage of GDP than it was when they came to power, and all of the others have lowered it as a percentage of GDP. The last one was after the biggest global financial crisis in decades.

That said, I was glad to see the back of the Blair Brown years. I left the Labour party when Blair pushed to go to war in Iraq on flimsy evidence.

Edited by nickgusset (04 Oct 2016 4.12pm)

An interesting interpretation of the facts. And yet most people wouldn't trust Labour with a piggy bank.

It's all Tory spin I suppose. I lived through the seventies mate and your sort want to take us back there but without the laughs.

You have been "wanting" this sort of stuff for decades and yet when you were in government you suddenly forgot.

Ooops!

I wasn't in government!
Corbyn represents what I and many have believed / yearned for for years. A refreshing change.

Edited by nickgusset (04 Oct 2016 4.28pm)

I was quite a few ages over that ten year period . Born in 69.

Is it presumptive of me to think you are now going to ask don't you remember the chaos caused by unions then?
1. The unions did hold a lot of sway and got ideas above their station.
2. It was 40 years ago, unions have changed. In my experience, the best schools to work in are those that have a strong union group that works with school leadership. The model in Germany I'd a good one from my understanding.
3. The whole 'return to the seventies' argument is a false one used to divert away from the fact that it's in the interest of 'the few' to preserve the status quo. That is why there are so many s*** arguments against Corbyn. They don't like him because he represents a threat to the status quo.How many articles actually argue against Corbyn's policies rather than the kind of anti Corbyn rhetoric we see parroted by people?

Edited by nickgusset (04 Oct 2016 5.54pm)

See my edit and riposte above.

Well worth pointing out that many "lefties" have sound idealogical and evidence-based reasons for regarding Blair and his corrupt government as betrayers of the Labour movement and as destroyers of social mobility. I'm yet to vote Labour in my life, although that may well change.

Well I think Simon's head is large; always involved in espionage. (Name that tune)

Do agree I just read of the increase of 250,000 in child poverty under Cameron in 1 year I don't think the tories have any humanity.

We have a more equal society than at any time in the past.
The fact that 1% of the population are super rich is not the problem. In fact wealth drags all people upward.
Some people are more interested in being jealous of those who have more than them than seeing the reality.
Yes it's appalling that some people live in poverty in 21st Century Britain but if it was easy to fix then any government would fix it immediately. The meaning of poverty has changed. Now it means that you can't afford a flat screen TV. 100 years ago it meant you shared a room with 10 other people and had nothing decent to eat half the week.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (04 Oct 2016 8.57pm)