Labour Must Take Their Share of the Blame for 14 Years of Pain
The Tories were awful. But who enabled them in the first place?
I am still giddy with excitement, two days after the election, now that we are finally free, after 14 years, of this despicable Conservative government. I am very optimistic about the prospect of Keir Starmer moving the country forward into far calmer and more prosperous waters.
They’re all the same? I don’t think so.
However, I hope I am not victim blaming when I suggest that it didn’t have to be this long and painful a journey. There are multiple reasons why things turn out as they do when it comes to elections - the influence of the media, the volatility of the electorate and pure accident being just a few. Yet over the last decade and a half, the Labour party made wholly avoidable mistakes of such epic proportions they left the door open for this shower of chancers to practise their dark arts of spin, deceit, serial pocket lining and cronyism.
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