Here you go
This is what *I* see
Education - Massive amounts of money wasted on shiny new schools, falling standards of literacy, abdication of teacher power
NHS - Don't even bother telling me a shiny new hospital is worth it. I've spent six months in a hell-hole being absused and mistreated by overworked nurses. Or how about the millions spent on a non-working IT system, or the increase in administration, or the new PFIs?
Iraq - Oh wait Tony Blair couldn't lick George Bush's arse enough. He was Labour. Yeeeeah that was payback for the Falklands. No it was a weak man playing a bad hand badly
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 13:30, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I worked in two of those school - still work in one. They are both very succesfull.
That's what I see.
I had to use one of the new hospitals. Very efficient, and while there was a lot of 'management' about, and I did feel a bit like product, the job was done.
That's what I saw.
Iraq - we shouldn't be there. Blair got out as soon as he realised he was not going to come up smelling of roses. But I'm glad you agree it was American policy. Brown would never have got us in.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 13:40, Reply)

I've had a very wide education
I've been to every type of school, and both my parents are teachers, and I can safely say that standards have dropped massively. Being a teacher is like being a social worker at the moment.
As for the hospitals on the surface they look good (sometimes) but I'm not merely basing my judgement on my own bad experience, but on other people I know who come out with what are pretty much horror stories. As NakedApe pointed out, it's simply not improved to the extent it should have with it's budget.
Iraq is just a fuck-up plain and simple, but it's Labour's fault for getting in there in the first place.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 13:45, Reply)

Foreigner
Hi. Sorry to but in - especially as I'm a foreigner and thus don't have a vote in the UK.

From my (limited) knowledge of the Falklands War, why would Iraq be pay-back for the Americans when it was Britain -v- Argentina, without American involvement?
(JohntheDane, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 13:42, Reply)

Curious Incident sort of thing.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 13:45, Reply)