Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "How Conservatism Can Save Our Country by David Starkey" video.

  1. The Tories conserved nothing. A decade and a half of asset stripping ever lower wages and economic decline, a record utterly damning topped off by Truss wiping 425 billion of the value of pensions and Sunak trying to bribe the electorate with a totaly unfunded 20 billion cut to NI with a scorched earth strategy as the door hit his ar5e on the way out.
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  2. Blair and Brown were the last time we had economic growth and working services The countries decline is down to Thatcherism and never ending asset stripping by the Tories.
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  3.  @fredforsythe8310  nope
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  4.  @drew699  PFI was a Major initiative and Brown fell for it it was finnaly put out of it's misery in 2018, GDP growth during Thatcher Major was the result of asset stripping and oil money as well as inflation in terms of real growth it was way worse than Blair / Brown who oversaw the best economic figures this country has ever seen. 2.3% average growth and +25% wage Growth. Since 2010 the economy has shrunk in real terms and wages have fallen. That's 14 years of abject failure
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  5.  @drew699  Key metrics fro the Thatcher era Unemployment: Rose in the UK from 5.4% to 6.4% Poverty: Rose in the UK from 13.4% to 22.2% Crime rose ahead of population growth Wealth inequality increased in 1979, 13.4% of the population lived below 60% of median incomes before housing costs. By 1990, it had gone up to 22.2% And the reason the last 14 years has been such a failure nothing left to sell off
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  6.  @drew699  quote from an economic historian she failed – and spectacularly so – to invest in Britain’s post-Thatcherite future. As capital spending plummeted, our national infrastructure was left to rot. Public services in particular were starved of resources. Most seriously her governments did little to help find future employment for those industries deemed beyond the pale of the Thatcher revolution. But nothing better illustrates her failure to invest in Britain’s long term future than her mishandling of the giant windfall she was gifted on entering Number 10 from booming North Sea oil revenues.
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