Not blaming them for the banking crisis.... but what I am blaming them is the fact they (Blair & Brown) put the country in a position that saw the 08 crash impact us far harder than it should ever have done. Take a look at the NHS (the thing Labour are meant to adore)... the PFI lending schemes saw NHS trusts saddled with insane levels of debt and high payment fees along with expensive facilities to staff and operate... None of them could cope when the 08 crash hit... Tory cuts haven't made things easy at all, but Labour's actions have helped **** it all up.
How much would Labour have had to pay out (through actual payments or promises) to the other parties to form a (still) minority government that would have seen the vast majority of their bills shot down because they didn't have the votes needed? The DUP money is a lot... but don't sit there and ignore the fact Labour would have done worse for less.
No party won the GE... the Tories got the most seats and therefore had the right to form the government, but they didn't win.... Neither did Corbyn, despite all his and his cult followers claims, Corbyn lost yet another GE.
No, Labour couldn't afford their so called 'costed manifesto'... which, IMHO, makes it no different to the Tories uncosted one. They put all their funding on the naïve belief that the rich and big businesses would stay around when Labour put their tax rates higher than elsewhere (No one believes with how Labour demonise the rich & big business, that they wouldn't raise tax rates higher and higher until it became financially better for them to be out of the country)... and even then, we're now seeing that their promises were impossible...
the Tories are not perfect, not by any means... but when people ignore the failures of Labour and the policies, recorded quotes & history of both Corbyn & McDonnell.... no one in their right mind would think they'd be a better option.
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