Ah so this is a left-wing forum! No wonder we failed to see eye to eye at times.
Labour ruined the country. Mass immigration which we had no say in, selling our gold at record low prices, public sector expansion which the private sector is squeezed to pay for, pension liabilities in the trillions of pounds, power given to youngsters instead of teachers and police, benefits culture that makes working a joke, 200%+ house price inflation when wages never rose to the same degree, 50% degree target making the value of a degree a joke, further destruction of manufacturing and engineering, instead focusing the economy on asset prices and banking - I could go on. (Housing is my major gripe - if it had been properly included in the inflation figures we would have had hyper-inflation years ago - the cost of living is tremendous).
As a practical engineer I look forward to the hard medicine that has to be administered. Any party would have had to made cuts but left-wing loons can't shake the 'bad Tory' image. Fact is Labour have always come to power with a budget surplus and left with a huge deficit - make no mistake, this is Labour's fault. Socialists are effectively communists - they take money off the people to expand the State and create a dependency through this benefits culture.
Time to get our heads out of the sand and face up to facts - we've been living way beyond our means, smelling the roses for too long. We've got to start making real money again and start cutting out waste. I look forward to facing reality, and to contribute to a wealthy economy through my engineering output. Let's balance the books and stop living in fairy land at last - PHEW!