RE: This board28 Jan 2025 07:48
Kalan, your vote for socialism ( actually there have been no real socialist governments in UK) made no difference to what happened in the UK. Poor education and deindustrialisation in your town was a more likely culprit. I taught in a northern town all my life and was educated there at a Grammar School as well so I know how poor that education was (including the Grammar). The majority of governments since the war have been Tory and that is not counting the Blair years . The problem with the UK has been execrable management due to the old boy network of public schools and entrepeneurs wanting a quick buck, selling out or moving abroad. I don't think the awful performance over the last 12 years can be ascribed to left wing tendencies unless you happen to be somewhere right of Mussolini ;-)