Quote Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell View Post
yeah it's really funny I mean Tony Blair was a very very dominant figure in British politics and it seemed that David Cameron wanted to model himself on Tony Blair and since then the UK really haven't had a proper conservative figure ...the country thought Boris Johnson was because he picked up on the concept of Brexit, picked up on the mantra of brexit and controlling borders and when he put that to the country he won the biggest majority in 40 years. I think in all of UK capital cities where you know politicians are influenced/ conservatives are influenced by Big Business, big media, they finish up miles away from ordinary voters living outside the beltways.

4 prime ministers in the space of 6 years, there are imperfections... I will say this though unless the conservative party get a grip they're going to find the pound going into Free Fall against the dollar, 25% inflation, with energy possible blackouts coming this winter and a massive socialist labor majority next time round. Liz Truss has said some of the right things, she now needs to act very very quickly.
You wrote the first paragraph, pinched bits of the second from somewhere.

I have some questions here.

Tony Blair was a conservative?

Do you think that conservative leaders produce better economic outcomes than politicians of other stripes? Can you provide any evidence of this?

To the extent that UK inflation has a component other than food and energy prices which are set by global markets and outside the control of any nation's politicians it's the fact the Britain imports so much of its goods. The reason it imports so much is directly down to changes made by arch conservative margaret Thatcher who changed Britain's economy from one that manufactured things to a service economy and from having a trade surplus when she took office Britain now has a trade deficit of eight percent of the economy, the highest of any major economy leaving Britain very exposed to inflation via the deficit. Ignoramus.