Quote Originally Posted by KerrAvon View Post
You aren’t still flogging that one are you?

Take a look at the dates on the data that is being used; the only period of Labour government that is being considered are the Blair/Brown years of 1997 to 2010. In other words the Labour governments that are now generally denounced by Labour supporters as being ‘not real Labour’ ‘neoliberal’ or an extension of Thatcherism. It also means that one of the non-Labour periods of Tory government that is considered is post 2010 when the coalition and the Tories were then dealing with the aftermath of the 2008 crash.

To be fair to the people who prepared the article, there are no other significant periods of Labour government to work with, but I do wonder what the figures would show if they used the period 1964 to 1979, when there were 11 years of Labour government and 4 Conservative. We all remember how that ended – the IMF bailout, rising unemployment, double figure inflation rates as governments repeatedly gave in to inflationary wage demands and the industrial relations of the mayhem of the winter of discontent.
Facts are facts, are you saying the years from 1997-2010 didn't have a labour gov't Mr Lawyer?????

You see, your spin cannot change facts, it might sway weak minded folk, but facts never change, in a court of law i'd be laughing my ballacks off at you right now.....