This comment says it for me;
"As a teacher in West Midlands during the Thatcher years we also worked in neglected facilities while the conservative government earned billions from privatising all the national assets. Not one cent from this bounty was spent to improve schools or hospitals. Of course not one cent penny was spent either to invest in new businesses as our manufacturing base crumpled. It was left to that dour Chancellor of Exchequer. Gordon Brown to set the real priorities and funnel taxes into schools, and hospitals even budgeting a deep clean of hospitals to tackle MRSA, when, mercifully the conservatives were ejected.
Even though Blair betrayed us with the unnecessary war in Iraq - fully supported by the conservatives, he started well, helping to end the long, brutal war in Northern Ireland that had afflicted the nation for a generation by talking with the IRA, and he alerted the world to Global Warming at a time when such talk met disbelief.
Without Gordon the recession would almost certainly have become a depression. He rallied the western world to meet the challenge of economic meltdown, failing banks, and Wall Street madness with a formula for stimulus package that has helped USA, UK, France and Germany to weather the storm. His coolness and confidence during that time contrasts with the hesitation and vacillation that Cameron shown. Of course Cameron, instead of showing solidarity in the face of a virtual economic armaggedon, just took pot-shots at Gordon - even making the ludicrous accusation 'Why didn't you save for a rainy day' i.e why hadn't Gordon saved all our taxes in anticipation off the entire financial sector going doo-lally. Well Gordon was using the taxes to repair school roofs, neglected for so many years by the tories. How long will it take now before schools and hospitals become a priority again."