This sort of blindness is not exclusive to the 'Welsh wonder', in fact all of the candidates and their supporters have been speaking in similar terms.
Talk about hubris!
- Not one mention of the Blair / Brown years or wars.
- Absolutely no apology for the reckless spending that's hamstrung the economy.
- No discussion of the social and economic consequences of mass third world immigration into the UK.
- No promises to never impose a prime minister on the UK without an election (oddly they would still be in power if they had done this at the time).
It's been one of the strangest sights of this summer, watching the Labour Party act and sound as though it hadn't been in power for the last 14 years, and that it wasn't just on the 6th of May that they surrendered power (Yes, just 20 weeks ago) ..... I
Full UK Scoreboard Party Seats Gain Loss Net Votes % +/-%
Conservative 307 100 3 +97 10,726,614 36.1 +3.8
Labour 258 3 94 -91 8,609,527 29.0 -6.2
Liberal Democrat 57 8 13 -5 6,836,824 23.0 +1.0
They got over 2 million less votes than the Conservatives, and less than 2 million more votes than the Liberals, but they 'get it' now ...... so that's OK then.
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