Blair/Brown Government was definitely the best, even though I spent a few months out of work with a young child there was a lot of help to get me back on my feet again.
People forget that, yes the Blair Government spent money, but they spent it on improving things for ordinary people. They invested heavily in Education and introduced the Early Years - targeting the very youngest to give them the best start in life. It was Blair’s government that started free nursery education.
They also spent money on improving the public buildings - under Thatcher, I remember being taught in classrooms where buckets were scattered to catch the rain from leaking rooves and plastic sheets were stuffed into cracked and broken windows.
They also started forcing companies who mis-sold financial products in the greedy Yuppy years to compensate their customers.
I don’t agree with everything they did, but it angers me that such a hate job has been done on Blair when he did so much to improve the country as a whole.
The one I clearly remember and hated was Thatcher. In her own way, she was as incompetent as the current shower, she just had a much better team behind her.
She ruined working class communities that are still struggling now, she wrecked the unions so working people no longer had a voice. NHS wards were closed while waiting lists were months, even years long. Elderly people froze to death and Edwina Curry told them to knit themselves hats and scarves.
And don’t dare talk to me about Brown selling gold reserves when Thatcher sold off the country, including North Sea Oil, to bribe her supporters and line their pockets. Something the current Government is still hell-bent on doing.