• frankPodmore@slrpnk.netOP
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      4 months ago

      People always say this stuff. Then Labour win and we get things like the NHS or the minimum wage. Next election, they go right back to saying nothing will change. I’m much more interested by the people trying to get things done than the kneejerk cynicism that nothing will happen anyway.

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          4 months ago

          They might not want those things, but the ‘Captains of industry’ who donated to Labour in 1997 helped deliver those things. And that’s just reality, political or not.

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            Pretty sure that Labour didn’t deliver the NHS in 1997. What they did deliver was saddling the NHS with billions in PFI debt that has gone a not inconsiderable distance to putting it into the state it’s in now.

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              4 months ago

              They delivered the minimum wage in '97, which is what I was asked about, alongside countless other policies which made the country better.