In just over 40 years, the Tories and New Labour destroyed the UK. Here's how they did it:
1979 - the advent of Thatcherism.
- Council house sales
- Privatisation
- Anti-trade union laws
- Deregulation
- The Big Bang
- Corruption
- Lack of housebuilding
- PFI
- 'Free' market fanaticism
- Buy to let
- Underfunding public services
- Student fees
- Bashing benefit claimants
- Bashing the disabled
- Racism
- Encouraging hatred of asylum seekers
- Homophobia
- Transphobia
- Islamophobia
- Bank bailouts
- Austerity
- Brexit
- Eugenics
- PPE scandal
- 230,000 covid deaths
- 330,000 avoidable austerity deaths
- Rampant lying
- Inadequate pay for public sector workers
- Mismanagement of inflation (BoE)
- Sham democracy
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