Hmm... The Falklands, The Balklands (Bosnia etc ) and the 1st Gulf War passed you by then?
The Falklands is debatable, but I would say that the Balkan conflict and GW1 had either the majority of the world, or UN support.
...and who was it that either destroyed or sold off most of our manufacturing industries?
Please explain. Notwithstanding that some of our manufacturing plants, like the car and bike industry, could not modernise due to a breakdown in relations between management and militant unions, resulting in our producing inferior product. A situation that was never attempted to be reversed under New Labour.
Now that, more than ever, we need to build our way out of this mess, we have nothing to do it with.
I'm not sure I understand you, but I don't think I agree either. We all share
some responsibility for what the Government do.
I agree with the implication that had the Tories been in power over the last 13 years, we would more than likely be in a similar situation with regards things like Iraq and the credit crunch, but it isn't right to say, 'they were just as bad' in justification that the incumbents are OK.
At the end of the day, what the Tories did in the 80s and 90s is on record, and not all was bad, but New Labour's failings and achievements are clear from the late 90s onwards.
If anything, both parties in the last 30 years have sought to bring politics into disrepute. Whether this is worse than what went before, or not, I couldn't say.
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