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The Labour/Tory thing isn't that simple. The UK's economy is strongly focused on London. When the Tories (conservatives) are in power, most of the money goes to
by MC27 16y ago
The Labour/Tory thing isn't that simple. The UK's economy is strongly focused on London. When the Tories (conservatives) are in power, most of the money goes to the South East and the rest of the country suffers really badly. When Labour are in power, they attempt to spread that wealth to the outskirts, but they aren't good at doing it, so waste a lot. They are polar opposites, each creating their own long term damage, especially to public services.
- gaius 16y agoMmm, this is exactly my point - no-one focussed on "the next election" can safely undertake to deliberately make structural changes in the economy. The timescales are all wrong. It probably takes "a generation" to do it, 20-30 years. The best thing - for the country as a whole - for either party to do is just stop interfering. But, as is human nature, each will prioritize the interests of its core voters.
- MC27 16y agoPerhaps the biggest opportunity the UK had was when regional parliaments were proposed for England, that would have made the central government less influential and let locals focus on their main concerns. It was poorly implemented but an interesting first step if the public had gone for it.
- arethuza 16y agoYeah - like that has worked so well in Scotland. All it has given us is a crazily expensive extra tier of government who feel that they can spend English taxpayers money to give Scots things that the rest of the UK don't get. And yes, I am Scottish and no I have never voted Tory (in fact I used to vote SNP until I met Alex Salmond).