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Surprise that people remember the negatives more than the positives. Not really. The press focus on the mistakes and it generates more heat than doing well.

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Most observant people just remember it for the horror show that it was. The majority of the press in fact went out of their way to deflect from the constant corruption and mistakes.

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Were there positives?

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Yes, if you were a Tory donor.

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If you seized the opportunities then yes. Those opportunities being to supply PPE, no due diligence or experience required except having Ministerial connections. And to discretely supply alcohol to No 10 during lockdown.

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Furlough that saved many people's livelihood and the companies that they worked for and still now work for. The subsidising of peoples energy bills that kept the heating on for the most vulnerable and the roll out of immunising jabs months ahead of the EU's botched procurement.

Yes mistakes were made but with the likes of Ferguson and Witty predicting that the population would be dropping like flies in their millions it's not surprising that a measure of panic ensued.

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As a Tory voter since 2010 until the last election (which I didn’t vote Tory), you might expect me to agree with this post.

But no, furlough was their own making. You can’t shut down the economy and then expect credit for compensating those that you have banned from earning.

They shouldn’t have locked down, they shouldn’t have crippled the country or put us under house arrest to begin with.

Their response to covid, and their antics during should, and did, attract nothing but disdain.

In their 14 yrs they have achieved nothing of note, they had a mandate after 2019 to revolutionise the UK’s economy and relationship with the world, and they royally screwed it up.

Their legacy is to give us Kier…fffin…..Starmer, We’ll done.

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One B in, one B out!

Chances of Braverman defecting to UKIP must have increased as she has withdrawn from the leadership race and says Party ‘doesn’t want to hear truth’ about why it lost the election.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/295292...y-leader-race/

And Badenoch has entered the leadership race.
https://news.sky.com/story/kemi-bade...sunak-13186188

They're conspiring to wreck the carefully-constructed CF poll! :D

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Well I won't!

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Me neither as its very likely Starmer will to somes displeasure have two terms at least to sort the almighty mess that the Conservatives have left this country in..

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I hope I never see another Tory government again and I'm not planning on dying any time soon.

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https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2024/07/3.jpg

OBR confirm £21.9B black hole left by the nasty party

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:clap::clap::clap:

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FYI It's not the '£20 billion' that is the problem exactly.

The allegations are a further overspend not accounted for in the last budget. Namely that the cost of housing asylum seekers was not included in the figures and that a £9 billion contingency was spent multiple times over.

https://x.com/PJTheEconomist/status/1817933176930508802

https://x.com/BenZaranko/status/1817937159292117436

That's from the IFS.

That said everyone is right to say the £20 billion was known about as was the fact a deal would need to be done with the Junior Doctors.

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Two left (Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d7y92n31zo

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I’d like to see Badenoch take it on, would be interesting if nothing else.