Boris Johnson

[Protheroe]

Tories have been in power for 11 years. I'm struggling to see how the country is in any way a better position than 11 years ago.

I don't disagree with that. However I also wonder where else is better than it was before the financial crisis?

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If you consider Britain is "broken" now then I doubt you were around in 1979.

I was actually born at home, by candlelight during the 1972 Miners Strike - when the miners were demanding a 47% pay increase (yes, you read that right).

You could say my politics, and those of a generations of Tory voters were formed at that very moment.

I'm pretty sure Chesh and Tom Joad are older than you Proth, and would be in a far better place to recall 1979 than your 7 year old self.

Then maybe they can speak for themselves and tell me what was unbroken in 1979 that is apparently broken now. Apart from the stranglehold of militant unions that is.