Don. even if they'd left everyone with a pocketful of fivers (which they didn't) it wouldn't have even started to redress all the things they had buggered up in the infra structure and the manufacturinfg base of the country.

They were a bloody disaster from day one, and it went on for eighteen years. If you lived in the parts of the country that Ian and i lived in you would have seen it first hand. I don't think either of us were Blair fans, but the Tories were a nightmare of unprecedented proportions. And no one is ever likely to equal their record for bloody minded mismanagement.

If you were daft enough to fall for their rhetric of intransigence - fair enough. Look at Nothern Ireland, eighteen years of bloodbath because she wanted to call the IRA criminals. Quibbling over words as people got killed.

It was same ludicrous pigheadedness that screwed up everything that was possible to be screwed up.