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The Blair and Brown governments created an unfair tax system that made Britain a haven for the super-rich, according to the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, who vowed that Labour would rewrite the rules of the economy when the party regained power.

Speaking at the party’s state of the economy conference in central London on Saturday, McDonnell said Labour must aspire to be another great reforming government.

“The last Labour government relied too heavily on tax revenues from financial services, and too heavily on off-balance sheet spending through the private finance initiative,” he said. “It didn’t do enough to clamp down on tax evasion and avoidance. It helped create an unfair tax system.”

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...on-digital-age

So even McDonnell reckons it wasn't all Thatcher's fault.

That should shut a few of the usual suspects up...