I don't think that's quite the case anymore. Cameron had to govern in a coalition, then got a wafer thin majority that Theresa May almost immediately blew off. Bozo was a bit of a fluke in that he knows how to work an audience, and he was dealing with the single issue of Brexit fatigue. If Labour had appointed more competent leadership between 2010 and 2019, I think the Tories would have struggled even more.
The problem, where I agree with you, is that Labour got lynched by the media and the electorate over the 2008 financial crisis. After a decade where they tackled poverty, waiting lists etc, the people turned on them the instant things went to shit, rather than give them a chance to get to grips with it and sort it out.
By comparison, between 1979-97 saw the Tories preside over two recessions and the destruction of the manufacturing base; and of course 2010-24 has been an absolute car crash of austerity, Brexit, pandemic and corruption. Tories get away with literal murder when in office and the voters give them chance after chance. Labour could create paradise on Earth but be immediately voted out the minute a snow flurry caused a train to be delayed by 3 minutes.
Yes you’re exactly right I totally agree with you.what I mean with the electorate having the attention span of a goldfish is as you rightly point out the tories just get chance after chance and and there’s no come back on them .when any ideology they implement is clearly not working they are allowed to see it through to it’s inevitable disastrous outcome.
Labour were immediately held responsible for the 2008 financial crash which affected markets across the world but the tories ,aided and abetted by the press as always,got the message out that it was all labours fault ,can’t be trusted with the economy etc etc and the public went headlong into that narrative.
Labour did take measures to protect the country and Gordon brown and alister darling were steering things in a good way but the electorate had already had their minds made up for them so weren’t given time to see things through.
The very annoying thing is labour allowed the tories and the media to blame them for the crash offering absolutely no defence and seemed to say “ yea your right were crap ,in fact we’ve left a note to say we’re skint there’s no money left “ .how the tories shouted that one from roof.
I’d love to see labour make the tories own this shambles they’ve made over the last 14 years ,constantly reminding the country every disastrous decision,policy ,law breaking move they’ve ever made.get into the nations psyche the way they do with labour .bring up the image of the queen sat socially distanced ,sat alone at her husband’s funeral while good old funny Boris was getting pissed in Downing Street while throwing billions of taxpayers money around like confetti to all their donors while we all abided by the rules .I want us to keep our foot on their throat and never take it off ,we need to make sure they never come back ,they’re down so let’s keep kicking them .
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