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LeftishBrit

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6. I actually disagree on Brown..

Reply to Bad Dog (Reply #5)

Sun Dec 27, 2015, 01:46 PM

Dec 2015

I don't think he was great, but he was a lot better on things like health and education than Blair was; and he got scapegoated by the Right for the global economic crisis: 'It's all due to Labour overspending' - then how come it happened everywhere?

I think that Blair dissed him as much as the other way round.

I think our last good Prime Minister was Harold Wilson, and James Callaghan was better than anyone since.

I don't know whether Corbyn or who is going to reclaim the Labour voters; but I agree that constant sniping and infighting will not help.

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