What is the Conservative legacy?

What is the Conservative legacy?

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shed driver

Original Poster:

2,359 posts

167 months

Friday 12th January
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After being in power for over half a generation what has the Conservative government measurably improved since 2010?

SD.

SS427 Camaro

6,504 posts

177 months

Friday 12th January
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Sweet F A …….

LF5335

7,443 posts

50 months

Friday 12th January
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Nothing, but they have made things far worse. That will be their legacy.

Slowboathome

4,460 posts

51 months

Friday 12th January
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Gay marriage.

Er.....

That's it.

valiant

11,350 posts

167 months

Friday 12th January
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They’ve managed to break virtually every public service.

That takes a special kind of incompetence.

CourtAgain

3,770 posts

71 months

Friday 12th January
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Legacy is Brexit (though took too long to execute) Covid vaccine (to divert from Covid Parties), Taking Back Control (of Trans Pennine Express), the shortest tenure of any PM of just 46 days (Liz Truss), a great comedy show every Wednesday lunchtime (PMQ's), increased Cost of Living, higher taxes... frown

Turn7

24,155 posts

228 months

Friday 12th January
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valiant said:
They’ve managed to break virtually every public service.

That takes a special kind of incompetence.
This.

Absolutely this.

williamp

19,562 posts

280 months

Friday 12th January
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..,kept Ed Milliband, Jeremy Corbyn et al out of government
The biggest, fastest roll out of covid vaccines (leave it there...)
Gave us Brexit (ish..)

It is time for a change, but its worth thinking would any other government be any better (see: rest of the western world..)

Oh, and we can build back better. Yeah!

jules_s

4,547 posts

240 months

Friday 12th January
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Turn7 said:
valiant said:
They’ve managed to break virtually every public service.

That takes a special kind of incompetence.
This.

Absolutely this.
It's always been the same in my lifetime

One side under funds - the other over funds the public sector



Turn7

24,155 posts

228 months

Friday 12th January
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jules_s said:
Turn7 said:
valiant said:
They’ve managed to break virtually every public service.

That takes a special kind of incompetence.
This.

Absolutely this.
It's always been the same in my lifetime

One side under funds - the other over funds the public sector
Just further proof that FPTP doesn’t work.

And I know nothing else does either.

anonymous-user

61 months

Friday 12th January
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Things look a lot better in Scotland under the SNP or Wales under Labour and Khan running London Well maybe not

Let’s think what life would have been like under Corbyn and Labour.

The thing we should value the most is our freedom, our ability to freely express our views liberty and equality, millions in the world don’t have these benefits and as we see with left wing governments in places like Spain the left like to be in control and remove those freedoms. The reintroduction of Face masks being their latest way to control the population. Our enemies are plentiful our European neighbours are weak one day your children may wake up and no longer live in a free democracy.


LF5335

7,443 posts

50 months

Friday 12th January
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86 said:
Things look a lot better in Scotland under the SNP or Wales under Labour and Khan running London Well maybe not

Let’s think what life would have been like under Corbyn and Labour.

The thing we should value the most is our freedom, our ability to freely express our views liberty and equality, millions in the world don’t have these benefits and as we see with left wing governments in places like Spain the left like to be in control and remove those freedoms. The reintroduction of Face masks being their latest way to control the population. Our enemies are plentiful our European neighbours are weak one day your children may wake up and no longer live in a free democracy.
rofl

Because the Tories haven’t stifled any rights at all. Demonstrations are actively encouraged and in no way did they try to limit your rights. More KoolAid nonsense

cheesejunkie

3,545 posts

24 months

Friday 12th January
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86 said:
Things look a lot better in Scotland under the SNP or Wales under Labour and Khan running London Well maybe not

Let’s think what life would have been like under Corbyn and Labour.

The thing we should value the most is our freedom, our ability to freely express our views liberty and equality, millions in the world don’t have these benefits and as we see with left wing governments in places like Spain the left like to be in control and remove those freedoms. The reintroduction of Face masks being their latest way to control the population. Our enemies are plentiful our European neighbours are weak one day your children may wake up and no longer live in a free democracy.
And your answer is ? ….

That’s not a legacy.

I’d say the legacy is a failed austerity policy that reduced UK productivity for ideological reasons and a certain idiot whose name rhymes with an expletive is repeating it due to a cowardly media never challenging it. The lack of media challenge is one of the government’s legacies.

ETA, whether media influence will be so accepted or so willingly given will reveal a lot about how two faced some of the comentariat are come the revolution. I’m joking on the revolution bit.


Edited by cheesejunkie on Friday 12th January 23:37

Mojooo

13,022 posts

187 months

Friday 12th January
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valiant said:
They’ve managed to break virtually every public service.

That takes a special kind of incompetence.
Fairly sure it was done on purpose.

DMN

3,017 posts

146 months

Friday 12th January
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Everything is fked.

Just like the last time they got into power. I'm not a natural Labour voter, but by christ they are better than this shower of ste. The Conservatives do nothing but damage. Ironic, given their name.

Rough101

2,297 posts

82 months

Saturday 13th January
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They have failed to conserve anything.

Pushed through Brexit even though they didn’t understand it, or how to make it work, then made absolute worst of it.

Gave all the contracts to their donors.

Foisted unelected PM’s on the populous.

Shorted the economy for their rich pals with plenty notice for what would be insider dealing if corporate.

Ridgemont

7,168 posts

138 months

Saturday 13th January
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williamp said:
..,kept Ed Milliband, Jeremy Corbyn et al out of government
The biggest, fastest roll out of covid vaccines (leave it there...)
Gave us Brexit (ish..)

It is time for a change, but its worth thinking would any other government be any better (see: rest of the western world..)

Oh, and we can build back better. Yeah!
The right answer.
Looping back through the elections:
2010 - Gordon Brown was the psychopathic tail end of Blair.
2015 - Miliband Minor. Enough said.
2017 - Corbyn.- As above
2019 - Corbyn - same again

The UK public when presented with the choice of a turd or a turd with sprinklings of salmonella chose the least offensive option.

FWIW Brexit ‘done’ is a good accomplishment. But obviously YMMV.

Time for a change and for the tories to actually work out what they want to govern for before labour collapses in very short order.

Dingu

4,366 posts

37 months

Saturday 13th January
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86 said:
Things look a lot better in Scotland under the SNP or Wales under Labour and Khan running London Well maybe not

Let’s think what life would have been like under Corbyn and Labour.

The thing we should value the most is our freedom, our ability to freely express our views liberty and equality, millions in the world don’t have these benefits and as we see with left wing governments in places like Spain the left like to be in control and remove those freedoms. The reintroduction of Face masks being their latest way to control the population. Our enemies are plentiful our European neighbours are weak one day your children may wake up and no longer live in a free democracy.
You been drinking? rofl

Kermit power

29,472 posts

220 months

Saturday 13th January
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It is surely the legacy of nightmares!

Once the greatest trading nation on earth now a weakened, marginalised husk thanks to the utter lunacy that was Brexit.

A nation once actually known for our compassion towards displaced people in need, now seemingly hell bent on becoming an international pariah just so they can blow a dog whistle by sending a few poor sods to a dodgy Central African nation with a questionable human rights record a blossoming utopia (because they've passed a bill to change the dictionary definition of st hole) so they can pretend they're cracking down on immigration when they know that they can do no such thing.

I'm not sure there is one single redeeming quality of Conservative rule.

gt_12345

1,873 posts

42 months

Saturday 13th January
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Kermit power said:
Once the greatest trading nation on earth now a weakened, marginalised husk thanks to the utter lunacy that was Brexit.
Explain what Brexit did exactly?

Kermit power said:
A nation once actually known for our compassion towards displaced people in need
1) Compassionate? We've invaded all but 6 countries in the world.

2) Economic migrants aren't displaced.