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   Ian Betteridge (ianbetteridge@writing.exchange)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 20:41:14 JST Ian Betteridge

   This picture captures one thing that's gone wrong with British politics so well. The three people on the right were PM for a total of 20 years. The five people on the left cover just ten years. I think we should have taken chaos with Ed Milliband.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 22:10:36 JST pettter

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     @ianbetteridge Of course, the halcyon days of reasonable foreign and domestic policy under *checks notes* Tony Blair, John Major and Gordon Brown, which have had no role whatsoever in where the UK is at the moment.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 01:14:21 JST pettter

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     @ianbetteridge would I prefer to live in the past, when the margins had not been quite so closely shaved? Sure, but the process to shave them was already ongoing then, and all of those people were instrumental in making sure that things got steadily worse.

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     Ian Betteridge (ianbetteridge@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 01:14:23 JST Ian Betteridge

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     @pettter Hmmm, would I trade Britain during any of the years they governed with Britain today? Yes, yes I would.