Politics

What have the Tories ever done for us? Nothing, actually

Thirteen years of Conservative governance has delivered next to no positives for the average Brit, Marina Purkiss has said.

In a brutal assessment of post-New Labour Britain – a period which was capped off by Gordon Brown with a rallying speech listing all of the party’s achievements – Purkiss said the Tories have overseen a dramatic fall in people’s living standards in the country, with few noticeable upsides.

“Nothing works anymore and yet somehow we’ve got the highest taxes since the Second World War. So where is all our money going?”, she told The London Economic in a devastating assessment of the party’s record.

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Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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