You could also argue that the extremely lax financial monitoring policies he and Brown followed were directly responsible for the financial crisis. But he legged it before that came home to roost leaving Brown to carry the can.
My biggest grouch is his 'university for all'. policy. Polytechnic colleges were great, and we need technical training in this country far more, than degrees in media studies. Kids were going to uni, getting into debt, and ending up doing office jobs.
We needed more apprenticeships, and on the job training paid for by firms, with kids earning as they learned.
Then of course the war.
I get your point, but the "media studies" argument has become a tired cliche.
Many of those students end up in jobs in the media (of which there are many) and pay taxes like everyone else.
I have a degree and a masters. One in "Media Studies" and the other in Computer Science.
It was the first one that got me a job.
people on the left always say this, dismissing that she delivered what people wanted. a politican doesnt destroy community or create selfishness, people make their communities, look after their neighbours. the failings to provide alternative industy went back to 60's when the mines, factories, dockyards first closed in large numbers. always overlooked.I can’t believe anyone voted for Thatcher let alone over 50% ffs - the destroyer of true community, creator of selfishness,
Maggie. Apart from the poll tax she got most things right.
Blairs worse policy was opening the immigration floodgates.
My biggest grouch is his 'university for all'. policy. Polytechnic colleges were great, and we need technical training in this country far more, than degrees in media studies. Kids were going to uni, getting into debt, and ending up doing office jobs.
We needed more apprenticeships, and on the job training paid for by firms, with kids earning as they learned.
Then of course the war.
I have to agree. 30 years ago, 10% of 18-year olds went to uni and 10% of them got a first class degree. Today it’s 50% and 26%. A 13x increase in the number of 21-year olds with first class degrees - there simply hasn’t been a 13-fold increase in the number of jobs requiring a first class degree (nor, of course, have standards been maintained over that 30-year period, but that’s a different - but related - point).
Blair implemented the most things that benefited the country and people.
War card tends to be used against this though.
Employers kept saying that basic literacy levels were declining year after year but no one took any notice.
Did he ? Tell me about that.
it was Brown's can to carry, he had ful control of economy, budgets, treasury, fiscal policy.
Yesterday, I reviewed an application from a chap with a 1st from Durham. In a 3 paragraph covering letter, he had 22 spelling/grammatical mistakes. Durham, FFS.
Aside from anything else, how dumb (arrogant?) do you have to be to not use a spell-checker?