Reply #6: He improved social inequalities from Thatcher's time... [View All]

[LeftishBrit]

but they are still MUCH worse than pre-Thatcher. He is to the right of some of Thatcher's Tory predecessors.

The NHS is getting worse and worse; now (at least in my area) there are a lot of check-ups at the like that your GP would have arranged for you routinely a few years ago, and now you have to have them privately or not at all. (I know we're still a lot better off in this respect than the USA).

Blair completely lost me early in his first term when he removed disability benefits from disabled people in work - not taking into account at all that disability often adds greatly to people's expenses of daily living, and that 'in work' doesn't always equal 'rich'.

I agree about devolution and House of Lords reform; but I think any Labour government would have had to do the same. And the corruption in House of Lords appointments has left a bad taste.

I think he'd have been regarded as a bad PM even without Iraq; but with Iraq, he really is one of the worst.