"Short-term hardship, necessary for long-term improvement. Which is what we got." What long term improvement? Millions of tons of natural resources no longer available. Public transport in a worse mess than ever. They privatised public transport in order to have more competition. Virtually all public transport in this part of the country is owned by a single private company - more of a monopoly than before. Unemployment was still much higher at the end of the Conservative "reign" than at the beginning. As for dishonesty and corruption they are no higher under New Labour (Pink Tory) than under Thatcherism (Purple Tory). Frank L.
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