We can all blame Labour for increasing the number and value of benefits when they were in government.
Unemployment is generally higher under the Tories, and by quite a bit.
Interesting point that..
Not a Tory but, in my lifetime they have always taken over from a failed labour government, 79 winter of discontent, 2010.....
Granted they took us into the 89 crash but managed to pull us round into the right direction with Tony Blair making the most of it.
Labour always up public spending and the civil service, its what they stand for.
Tories cut back spending and promote big business and trade at the expense of the civil service and level of state funding, the ethos is if pays for itself then it can stay.
The last tory government was a nightmare. Unemployment was over 3 million, interest rates hit 15%, inflation was high.
Trying to get a job in the early 90's was a nightmare.
We had a good decade of growth under labour, unfortunately what we've seen is boom and bust again, which seems to happen whoever is in government.
It is a fact that when labour left power, we were back into growth, the economy is now shrinking again.
All we are seeing now is attacks on the unemployed and the disabled, the NHS will fall apart.
If you vote conservative, be prepared to have a good job and don't become ill.
It could also be argued that labour clear up the mess conservatives leave behind, 20 years starving the NHS of investment is a perfect example.
The problem is too many people read the right wing press, the mouthpiece of conservatives.
Of course everyone that is unemployed or disabled is a scrounger, and labour are totally responsible for the national debt, which strangely enough is still getting alot bigger.
The reality is, the last government had to pour huge sums into bailing out the banks, at the same time we saw a global recession.
