• merridew@feddit.uk
          hexagon
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          11 months ago

          Ah yes, those terrible Blair years. If only the Major government had kept going for longer.

            • merridew@feddit.uk
              hexagon
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              11 months ago

              I don't know. He was re-elected with a majority of 66 in 2005, two years after Iraq started, and then in 2007 the Labour party membership forced him out in favour of Brown, who promptly lost the 2010 election to the Tories.

              I'll take Blair Mk II in office over Corbyn in opposition any day.

                • merridew@feddit.uk
                  hexagon
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                  11 months ago

                  Brown was extremely popular among members of the Labour party, and never had a snowball's chance in hell in a general election.

                  Bit of a pattern there.

                  Eventually you have to grow up and accept that the perfect is the enemy of the good.

    • Syldon@feddit.uk
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      11 months ago

      What Starmer said was that the private use would run alongside efforts to train new staff and create new infrastructure. People need treatment and we do not have the infrastructure to do that. Health services don't just materialise out of thin air.