MagpieRainbow ... Im sure that was more to do with a global financial crisis than anything to do with Labour.
Well I can prove that it wasn't, it was the pig-ignorant policies mainly before the crash began, the massive building of a an expensive and large Quango Public Sector, benefits, welfare, tax credit state - as the private sector and citizens paid far more taxes supporting it, losing 1 million manufacturing jobs in their first 7-years during a boom, pensions were buggered, gold sold, hardly any homes built for a secret immigration policy - so WHEN the crash hit, real incomes fell, the Labour big State/Public Sector Ponzi scheme could only increase taxes, not lower them to help companies and the people.
Labour built an economy on the tax receipts of a financial bubble they helped create, by de regulating the UK banks that Brown has apologised for, so when the bubble burst, we had huge fixed costs but the tax receipts of huge borrowing/speculation fell away = the £153 billion budget deficit overspend Labour left, the largest in our peace time history and around 3 x that of socialist France.
And all that was better than the rumour of an act by the PM fixing that mess. Marvellous.
P.S. Still like to blame the Tories (even in opposition) for Labour's screw ups, priceless.