>> Why did your lot allow the 2008 crash/slump to occur, and so on.
My answer would be the usual one. The crash was a worldwide thing. Brown came out of it with credit for for brigading the other big economies to do what was needed
The regulatory environment that allowed the banks to gamble themselves into insolvency is another question
I don't remember the opposition, here or in the US, calling for a slow down/reverse on dregulation.
What was happening beyond the crisis is contested. Green shoots and all that. Could/should the coalition have done less cutting?
That's 15 years ago and has not got much relevance to the conundrum we face now with Starmer. I've always been on the mixed economy Croslandite pews of the broad church but, as under Blair I'm a dangerous lefty. Not prepared to give my time footslogging for him but I think, political earthquakes excluded, he'll be OK without me and my kin.
>> But, I must agree - what the electorate saw in Johnson is lost on me.
>> I refused to vote for him.
Times radio has or had - not heard it recently - a panel of electors whose deliberations were being podcast. The number who thought Johnson 'one of us' while Starmer was born with a silver spoon in his mouth is frightening.
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