Weird public perception Vs reality. Brown by world leaders was massively respected and is pretty much acknowledged as the person who coordinated the entire plan worldwide after the 2008 financial crisis. The Blair and Brown documentary covers it in the last episodes. Even George Osbourne basically admits it was out of his power and he managed it pretty well but as he was in power he got the blame and they deliberately exploited that opportunity to get into power.
Its persisted for the 14 years since yesterday was first time in polling in an age where Lab beat Con on economic competence.
Harsh.
I'm definitely too young for Thatcher and barely remember Major. Blair caught my ire for introducing tuition fees (they were introduced in '98 and went to uni in '03) they were far more a hot potato than they are now amongst students, hell the NUS use to regularly be demonstrating against them and be on TV you don't hear a peep out of them these days.
Would you trust Rachel Reeves a chancellor?
Haven't seen enough of her if I'm honest and I'm unsure if they have a coherent economic strategy at the moment. This isn't a necessarily a bad thing, they've got their 'big hitters' in terms of Ed and Yevette. People are starting to see more of Starmer who aren't superbly politically engaged and responding well if not spectacularly. The corpse of Corbyn has been dealt with and its telling the Tories keep trying to bring up someone who isn't even a Labour MP anymore to wound them in the public eye (I think Lab have a candidate against him but I wouldn't fight him too much and just leave him be).
That sounds like much more of a Patel thing TBH
Patel isn't smart enough to catch the mouse let alone toy with it.
I can definitely see her being the sort of person to torture a mouse though...
