Quote Originally Posted by Vindec View Post
Clearly you haven't lived through Labour governments. The winter of discontent, strikes bringing the country to its knees, rubbish on the streets etc.etc.

I'm pleased that you found social care so good under a Labour Administration but my own experience was very different. My mother was blind, had many strokes and was bedbound in the latter years of her life. She was a teacher, paid into the system throughout her life and all she and I got from the socialists when help was needed was a shrug of the shoulders and told to employ a private sector company to assist her in the morning and evening. Apparently there was no local authority help (although she met the criteria) as the Council had insufficient funds from the Labour government. However, I was given a list of potential companies; that's all I got. I couldn't do much myself as I lived 150 miles away. All I could do was chip in with the finances as my mother's money had gone so eventually we had to sell her house so she could pay her own way and move into a residential home costing Ł2500 a month. That was 20 years ago. If you think that's a utopian service then good luck to you. It may not be better now but couldn't be much worse.

Open your eyes. Not everything Labour does is great and the same goes for all governments of whatever persuasion.
Blair and his reforms (short for Privatisation) would've put to finished off good public sector care for your mother. The man was and is a bastard. He was hugely admired by the tories, especially Cameron. As for previous Labour Governments, plenty of working class people saw a large rise in living standards and income, and rightly so.