In message , Tim
Streater writes
In article ,
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher
saying something like:

Three million manufacturing jobs have been lost since Labour came
into power in 1997, averaging 300 a day.
And the Tories had nothing to do with it, of course.

In this case, no, I don't think they did.
Looked awfully to me as if the NL shower were just carrying on the
same
dreadful policies as had gone before. There was a certain inevitability
about Britain losing manufacturing jobs to the developing world, but I
honestly thought some proper leadership and job-retention initiative
would be shown; and I can't believe, in retrospect, I actually cheered
when the NL shower of ******s were elected in 1997.

I can't believe that it wasn't quite clear that Blair was a charlatan
even back then.

That prolly wasn't the point.

The tories had got to the point where anything was a welcome relief from
the endemic corruption and sleaze

The words of the song just didn't say things can only get worse


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geoff