A fourth by election looming.

[life on mars]

You are a very bizarre character indeed. I voted Foot , Kinnock, Blair (mate executed in Iraq - never voted for him again), went self employed, voted Cameron, Lib Dem, then Boris - as Corbyn was an even worse option. Missed the Theresa May election (I was out of the UK for a while) , next time who knows, none at the moment

Don't feel you have to apologise is a free world . I also voted for Blair , stupidly voted for Ed Miliband , confusion reigned after that could not pretend to like Corbyn because of my past Labour affiliations ,so wasted my vote on Liberals .

Blair also privatised the NHS which allowed him to push the money in the NHS reduce waiting which ahs now proved to be a short term decision and hurt the NHS in many ways since , looks like Starmer / Streeting are talking up the same Blair stealth tactics .

Lets not forget the same government applied this short sighted tactic :
In 2001, the then Chancellor Gordon Brown introduced a new system of car tax aimed at protecting the environment. In actual reality it fostered a popular move towards highly polluting diesel cars - a trend which according to some experts has been associated with thousands of premature deaths a year.

New light is shed on how this happened by records received by the BBC, after a two-year freedom of information battle with the Treasury. Some of these papers show that civil servants objected to a stronger policy to deter diesel usage on presentational grounds, because they did not want the government to be seen as "penalising" diesel drivers.

Then : Brown’s £5bn raid a year pensions raid has finally come back to haunt him with the revelation that he ignored repeated warnings from his own officials about the long term damage it would have on savings .

Then more short term decisions : Gordon Brown today admitted making "two mistakes" over the abolition of the 10p starting rate of income tax.

In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the prime minister conceded more clearly than he has done before that the final budget he introduced as chancellor was flawed.

"We made two mistakes. I'll be honest about it, we made two mistakes," said Brown, who has a reputation for being reluctant to admit that he gets things wrong.

Tuition fees introduced 1998 under the Labour government of Tony Blair

Iraq ?

Shit , shit and more shit ,power at any cost

All fell apart for me though Blair was the man ,