Chuck in severely taking their eye off the ball which lead to the biggest finance crisis this country had seen in a generation and will be a burden for generations to come to pay for. Blair and Brown really couldn't have done much worse.

It wont be the same deal on the table if Boris gets a sizeable majority.
Couldn't he just get the surrender act revoked, put no deal back on the table and renegotiate with the eu from a position of strength.

If you see China and the US as interchangable and equivalent then that may make some sense. Why do you think Hong Kong protestors were waving the American flag? The problem we have is that the ideals of the West that created both the richest, most free and most culturally rich heretige have been undermined by liberalism (which is ironically a by-product of that success). It's at the heart of Brexit, Trump and the culture wars currently raging across all across the western nations.

So, are you making an argument for authoritarianism? I know you're not.
Call it liberalism or whatever you want, I think it's human nature that when you get to have the wealth most western countries have that your views lean more to having things like a social safety net (ie NHS, Free childcare, etc). Do 'common' people take advantage of it? Yes, but I haven't seen a recession where the welfare spend destroyed the economy yet. What I have seen is regulations being cut on the financial sector that have caused immense recessions and surprisingly no one goes jail, funny that.

I wouldn't describe myself as left or right really, I just want things to be discussed in a proper way, analysed and then implemented with strict monitoring of the effects of any policy as well as the environmental factors that policy was implemented in. The best example is austerity. Do we 'the people' need to live within our means? I'd say to a certain extent yes, but the people are not a country that can print its own money. If I'm saving £100 a month while I'm earning £20k a year, I'm not going to start saving £400 a month, because I'll be miserable, what I may do though is look for a better paid job and potentially educate myself a bit more to have a better chance of that. Our Government can print it's way out of trouble, to certain extent.

I've gone a bit too long here, but my point is that I see the benefits in autocratic countries as well as in (and I use this word very lightly) democracies.