The last few Tory governments have hardly differed from the Blair/Brown governments - they too were and are high-tax, high-spend. The problem is that the Tories have not been Tory enough. Truss had the right ideas but bungled their implementation. Throughout the world free market economics has generated wealth and higher living standards for everyone, socialist economics the reverse.

Have you actually looked at the link?

No, Tories were higher taxers and yet still managed to put public services where they stand.

Again, have you watched the link?

if you got a problem with your taxes paying to raise the kids of other blokes ? or absentee dads, longterm unemployed types etc......then you hate Socialism.

if you want to be like the bloke in the link below ? then a Socialist country is your paradise

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Eze Peasy at Anfield....

It's easy to forget the absolute mess that Thatcher took over.

The left were their usual nightmare and it's by no accident that she won easily in 79. Many, up to that point, lifelong Labour voters, voted her in.

She was very much the neoliberal and while she was probably the last real patriot in charge of Britain she did many things over her three terms that I didn't like.

However, as it was the choice between her and Foot it was no real choice at all.

She turned the country around economically...which can never be done easily or painlessly.....Yes, it was sometimes brutal and sometimes just wrong or badly done. Nevertheless, let it not for forgotten that some of the people and organisations she was up against did not play fair (I will not include Foot in that) and any criticisms we have regarding Thatcher should consider the absolute continual failures that were the other options.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Sweden, Ireland, France.....a generous Welfare State. Expensive housing and many minimum-wage workers having a worse off outcome than many scroungers. Employers must import staff as nobody else will take a job. Fathers are often replaced by Daddy Government.

Spain, Morocco, Greece....the opposite.

Generous Welfare = the last days of Rome....chaos & anarchy. Visit Malmo if you do not believe me.

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Eze Peasy at Anfield....

I think I have the right to watch as much or as little as I like, after all, we don't live in a communist dictatorship - yet.

Government spending in general is usually wasteful and state activities, much of them unnecessary, are generally inefficient and badly run. This is true of whichever party is in power.

The best we can hope for is that they spend money on things we really need, like defence, law and order, public services and social welfare, but don't expect efficiency sensible financing in those areas either.