Labour's biggest failures

nickmason

Thinking that "something must be done" - and spending a lot of money doing it.
Iraq/Afghanistan
Confusing rights and "gimme, gimme, gimme, it's my right innit"
Disincentivising work
Red tape
Pumping money into the NHS for limited outcome
The economy, stupid....

Vincenzo

Declaring the end of boom and bust, and believing their own spin.

twadge_face

Vincenzo wrote: »

Declaring the end of boom and bust, and believing their own spin.

Or: declaring the end of boom and bust and then riding the wave of the biggest boom in history, THEN deluding not only themselves but the country that this is the results of an economic genius, AND THEN virtually bankrupting the country to stop the natural bust to occur.

hallmark

Far too many to list.

Introduction of HIPs.

Allowing Mandelson back into a position of power.

Iraq.

Allowing the loathesome Alister Campbell back into a position of power.

Allowing Brown to effectively reduce our Government to himself & a tiny clique of handpicked lackeys, mainly from the treasury.

Announcing the sale of gold before selling it thus ensuring rock-bottom prices.

Raiding pensions.

Not sacking Jacqui Smith after her husband rented !!!!!! & claimed it on expenses. What has the world come to when someone in those circumstances doesn't even get sacked?

Hideous over-complication of the tax system.

Tax by stealth over & over again.

Encouraging the housing boom in order to fund Brown's incompetence, then when it bust endlessly blaming the US.

Brown's fake smile.

Spin, spin & yet more spin. A party that valued news management ten thousand times as much as it cared about good Government.

Terrible immigration (non) policy & encouraging the view that anyone who questions it it closet BNP.

Happily taking the support of the Sun etc for 12 years then without a trace of shame blaming everything on the "Tory Press" when they finally got booted out.

Refusing to honour their promise of an EU referendum.

Changing the timeframes that applied to Brown's "Golden Rules" in order to claim they hadn't broken them.

Continually refusing to include personal debt as part of Britain's debt mountain.

Bankrupting the country.

ninky_2

dave4545454 wrote: »

it's easier to look at what they got right and any successes

1) the peace agreement in northern ireland
2 ) nothing else

that's all they achieved in 13 years, everything else was a disaster

oh come on. even if you don't support labour it's hard not to applaud...

minimum wage
civil partnerships
shorter nhs waiting times
banning fox hunting
more teachers
the right to 4 weeks paid holiday
paternity leave
more doctors and nurses
written off poor countries debts
free nursery places for 3-4 year olds

to name a few

ninky_2

nickmason wrote: »

Thinking that "something must be done" - and spending a lot of money doing it.
Iraq/Afghanistan
Confusing rights and "gimme, gimme, gimme, it's my right innit"
Disincentivising work
Red tape
Pumping money into the NHS for limited outcome
The economy, stupid....

do you oppose military action there nick?

funny because i didn't see / meet any conservatives on the various highly attended stop the war marches i went on.

leveller2911

For me it has to be:

1/ Reliance on the Benefit system

2/ Deficit

3/ HPI

4/ Education

5/Justice

6/ Social Engineering

7/ Industry


What they did well: 1/ School infrastructure

2/ Right to roam

3/ Nationwide Cycle routes

4/ Free TV license for Golden Oldies

markharding557

Labours greatest failure?
For me that has to be the 10p tax band fiasco-this was the iceberg that holed the proverbial labour titanic,brown and labour never recovered

A._Badger

To add just one to some already excellent lists of this serial disaster, the creation of an oppressive, nannying, intrusive surveillance state. If the new boys do everything else wrong, the scrapping of the ID card alone will be something to remember them by.

sss555s

Wookster wrote: »

What do you think are Labour's biggest failures during their 13 years in power?

Having Tony Blair as their leader.