Originally Posted by
KerrAvon
Dennis Healey was an interesting bloke and possibly the best Prime Minister that this country never had. After the IMF persuaded the Labour government that endlessly printing money was not a good idea in 1976, Healey was turning the ship around until the TUs made Labour unelectable in 1979 and delivered the lurch to the left that made them unelectable for nigh on twenty years.
It was a tragedy that John Smith never got a crack at leading the country too.
It's pretty sad the way the Labour Party now disowns the Blair/Brown governments (unless they are relying upon their tenure to support the notion that Labour governments are financially prudent). They made mistakes (believing their own hype might have been at the root of it), but were generally sound. The writing was on the wall as soon as Brown took over from Blair. Brown was a decent chancellor, but not a great PM. You only need to compare Blair to Brown to understand the difference between leadership and management.
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