What were the main achievements of the last Conservative Government?

Question

(That is John Major's government for the younger readers)

They gave us:

Negative Equity
Economic Instability
Double Figure Interest Rates
Privatised the Railways
Black Wednesday
Destroyed NHS Dentistry
Slave wages
The Millennium Dome
and botched the end of Gulf War 1.

Did they do anything useful?

Monty - interesting list: full of spurious issues, subjective opinions and complete errors. For your information John Major signed the Maastrict Treaty - the biggest transfer of power to Europe ever (if that is the way you choose to spin our relationship with the EU). The European Court of Human Rights has been around for decades.

As for sex on Clapham Common, if you really have to sink that low than can I simply remind you of the late Stephen Milligan MP!

I wouldn't call you intolerant. Just very very wrong!

Monty - You're still getting it wrong I'm afraid - Blair signed the European Convention on Human Rights, not the European Court. I didn't answer most of your list because there is insufficient explanation of the "problems" you listed.

Answer 1

The main achievement of the Tory Gov was to put up the cost of living for ordinary people. The list you published above pretty well sums it up really.

In the years since, during which time we have been fortunate enough to have Gordon Brown's firm hand on the economy tiller, things have improved greatly. My savings are worth something now and so too is my house. There is a sense of well-being among the people. People feel well off and are better paid under Labour.

I cannot think honestly of a single thing the Tories achieved which can be said of benefit to the British people in their entire history, save one and that is having William Wilberforce as a Tory MP.

Answer 2

You forgot a couple of things.
The Tories told old people to wear warm clothes and hats indoors if they couldn't afford to heat their houses; which doesn't deal with the problems of damp and mould.
They abolished the poverty level. There used to be a standard of income, below which was the poverty level. The number of people living on or below that level kept rising. To deal with it they just stopped counting them.
Didn't they also abolish the minimum wage? I remember seeing jobs advertised at £2.10 an hour.
They conned people into buying their council house. When you take out a mortgage, you repay 2 1/2 times what you borrow. Since you borrow what the house is worth you have to increase the value of the property by 2 1/2 times over 20 years to keep up. It encourages property speculation instead of a stable housing market.
They also wrote into the legislation that councils couldn't re-invest the money into their existing housing stock; it had to go into a seperate budget. At the same time they slashed the housing budgets so there was a huge backlog of repairs.

Answer 3

i dont think they gave you of that and Labour could have reversed much of it, if it was something they did not want to do them selves. New Labour is Old Tory in everything but name.

Negative Equity will be back in less than 5 years because of the excessive price rises caused by labour.

Economy was getting more stable, but several major year long strikes by labour led unions did nothing for economy either

double figure interest rates is twinned with negative equity, if people had savings they would have gained.

The railways are no better now, with labour unwilling to deal with rail track and other share holder companies that are still getting government funds.

Shares, everyone's shares world wide dipped yesterday by BILLIONS all because there was a rumour china might change a tax on trading.

NHS destruction is still on going, never worse in last 2yrs, labour had the previous 8 to reverse it.

Slave wages, its now the going rate with T Blair's willingness to join europe, free trade and work force etc..

The dome, you telling me wembley and the olympic bid is going to be any better and actually go to budget. Scottish parliament, the jocks own Dome !!

Botched end to the war, wait until you see what comes of this botched ending, mega life loss.

Blair has no common roots, he is as posh as any toffy conservative, i grew up in his constituency and he has done nothing for us, for 20years. It is just a place to get elected to him and because it is the old mining heart lands he get in every time. He was schooled at a posh gaff in Edinburgh. The fact that he and wife are both from the legal world, just shows how cleverly he has manipulated his life, just like how to present evidence in court as convincingly as possible. We the british jury have been misled for 10years.

Answer 4

good answer DSclimb1, but seeing as you disagree with the questioner and have answered many of his questions, he will obviously disagree with you because you are not thinking the same and then he will claim you are intolerent.
They didn't give us:

Gulf War 2
Afganistan
Kosovo
Wembley Stadium
Scottish Parliment building
Gay sex on clapham common
Id cards
Ward closures dispite millions of extra funding in the NHS
Sending soldiers to war with sub standard equipment
Dumbing down of education
Tuition fees
Mickey mouse degrees
The Firemans strike
Tax by stealth
The mess of MG Rover
Handing over more and more power to Brussels
The European courts of human rights
Mass immigration
Tony Blairs ability to kiss Bush's arxe
Militant Muslims

Need I go on.
10 years and not one single improvement despite the fact they hace thrown countless amounts of money at them all, all of which came form the 60 or so increases in tax that Gordon took from us.
Labour = Failure

Nice try in your reply - subjective errors. I don't think so.
John Major may have signed the Maastrict Treaty. Tony Blair has gone on to give more and more power to Europe.
The European Court of Human rights may have been around for decades, but Tony Blair signed it for the UK and doesn't his wife do well out of it?
By the way you did'nt mention Tony Blairs handling of the UK dentists did you? I certainly can't find them. Also, I believe you did not mention anything about tuition fees, the amount of money and failures on the NHS.
Subjective errors my backside. Again anybody who disagrees with you is simply wrong on all accounts, but I listed about 15 policies on which the LAbour Party has failed and you replied poorly on about 4 of them and then forgot to mention the rest and simply called me wrong. I am worring about your lack of interllect.

Answer 5

I agree with all the above, but unfortunately Mr.Blair follow the same policy and forgot about his solicits root.

Answer 6

Yes they kept Labour out for a lot of years!
They also gave council house tenants the chance to buy their own houses!

Screw the working classes? Far from it! they crushed the unions that were holding this country to ransom on a regular basis!

Answer 7

Oh, and you forgot that Major shagged Currie. Can't forget that, can we?

Answer 8

yes telling the iron lady to fuk off, lol
and dont forget the fkn poll tax that they thought, lets experiment with a new tax , ah i know lets try it in scotland ,,, whats new eh !!!!

Answer 9

What I don't understand is why people are insisting they get back in at the next election!

Answer 10

You forgot council tax !!