I hear you on the war thing but honestly there’s every likelihood a conservative would have made the same decision. They trusted the US intelligence and in any case it would have been extremely difficult for the UK to say no to being war buddies with the US. The US has huge sway in this country, and I’m not sure any recent leader apart from Corbyn, would have decented, they probably all voted for it if it came up in the commons.
im not sure it’s fair to say the Labour government left the country in poverty, a huge chunk of the uk economy is financial services so it was always going to be pretty badly hit, and the whole world apart from Canada (well done them) mismanaged their economy by that measure. I’m pretty sure the protections they put in in Canada was somewhat accidental rather than prescient.
when the tories cut costs in a way that every other country was doing initially - that’s fair but we never saw the benefits of that, and it became ideological pretty quickly.
In fact just before it became clear that Liz Truss’ budget was an unmitigated disaster, literally a few hours after I remember George Osborne expressing delight with it and saying something along the lines of what he wished he could have done. Not sure he’s saying that any more but it was revealing.
the tories misspent many many billions on inappropriate PPE during covid. They spent near a billion on an initiative that won Sunak the name Dr Death among members of his own party. They misspent so much, and still managed to not recover the health or the economy of the country. Plenty of countries did.
Brexit is estimated to have cost the country 5.5% growth in the economy each year. That’s an estimate 680 billion for the economy between 2016 and Jun 2024. It will possibly cost yet more, that about 10k per head of every man woman and child in the UK.
A majority of people now think Brexit was a mistake .
I agree that Labour don’t know much about women’s rights but the tories have had an insane level of sexual assault scandals in the past few years.
They also introduced the terrible 2 child benefit cap, unless a woman has a third because of rape (hurrah! Such justice). So so many reason that’s morally wrong but it’s certainly not a pro women. The 680 billion Brexit hole would cover approx 50 years of child benefit- just to give some scale to that figure.
as for management? Well I’m not his biggest fan to say the least but Starmer has taken the Labour Party from near electoral oblivion to potentially getting a landslide victory after the tories had 14 years to rig it in their favour. He’s managing something, certainly when you compare him to the shambles across the chamber.
Apologies for continuing the derail, in a long winded way, but I felt some of these had to be addressed