07-05-2023, 03:54 PM
(07-05-2023, 03:39 PM)Borin' Baggie Wrote:(07-05-2023, 03:12 PM)Protheroe Wrote:(07-05-2023, 07:06 AM)Tom Joad Wrote: There you go, Happy to help.
I don't recall Thatcher's Conservatives printing money on a scale unheard of like the UK did after the GFC, during Covid and the energy price crisis.
The UK's exposure to the energy price crisis can be tracked down to decisions made on energy policy in the early 1980s.
Plus. The fact we have little social housing is because the tories sold of the best stuff at a fraction of market value, without replacing it and didnt invest in repairing the poorer stock. The closure of most of the steel industry left us importing steel, the deregulation of much of the city left us open to boom and bust, the privatisation of electricity, the necessity to import coal, the water companies......
None of those helped with the protection of the youngest or poorest nor zombie companies or asset price inflation and certainly played a part in the alienation of swathes of Britain.
I do agree with you about the banks though but must add, do you really think the tories would have let the banks go under? They were all about the financial services industry, albeit at the expense of everything else.