I can't see that such misfortunes occur only under the government of the party specified in the thread title, though, Dave. Such misfortunes are always due to a complex of factors -- international exchanges, the state of world markets, foreign policy demands and responsibilities, &c&c&c, to which all parties in power are vulnerable & over which they can only have partial control -- or none.. Every measure taken to advantage or benefit one lot will always have converse effects on another; and the government of the day has to try to strike the best balance possible, within the parameters of trying to fulfil their election promises, on the basis of which they were given this responsibility. I can remember lots of people being 'angry' at what Attlee's admin had done to them, or Wilson's, or Callaghan's; just as much as Eden's or MacMillan's or Thatcher's. Just perhaps a different lot of people, that's all; but all with their children to maintain & their lives and work to get on with...