Quote Originally Posted by kritichris View Post
The tories asset stripped the UK, spent billions on Brexit which is still costing us, gave away billions during Covid to their cronies in PPE contracts that were worthless then gave away millions in unaudited fraudulent claims for assistance, have put Councils across the country into situations where if they were private companies they would have to declare bankruptcy and have made record borrowings to finance their maladministration, leaving the country in enormous debt and they've almost destroyed the NHS and Labour are then criticised for trying to fix the mess by increasing taxes. it's laughable. What would the Tories have done if they'd stayed in power? Borrowed more money to buy lottery tickets? Get real, this country is in deep economic **** and it's not labour's fault.
Brexit was not a Tory policy, they campaigned, along with Labour and the LibDems, to Remain in the EU. Leaving the EU was a decision of the British people, not the Tories, incompetently implemented by the Tories who put a Remainer in charge, the duplicitous traitor Theresa May.

The Covid debacle has wrecked the UK economy, but Labour wanted longer lockdowns and circuit breakers, higher furlough payments and longer periods of payment, the damage wrought upon the economy would have been a lot, lot worse under a Labour government and the debt a lot higher.

The NHS is a mess, any attempts to reform it are met with howls of outrage, but until it is reformed it will continue to swallow the huge amounts of money thrown at it by the Tories and now Labour. Neither of them have the courage to grasp the nettle of reform, so it will continue to lumber on, almost overwhelmed with the extra demand placed on it each passing year by the exponential increase in the UK population, driven mainly by immigration, which neither party can get a grip of. Incidentally, the good folk of Burnley used to have their own A&E depertment, that was closed and moved to Blackburn in 2007, under a Labour government.