Dave, you may find this hard to believe - but poor people were safer under Blair than any tory. Whatever his faults (and God knows he upset me over many issues) I could find it within me to forgive him because I knew while he was in power , my disabled wife would have her needs taken care of. And he had the knack of being re-elected. Once Brown managed to unseat him, we were in the shit.

tHe depredations begin the day tories take power.