Probably people too young to remember the Thatcher years when they sold off half the country.
In much the same way as the current generation, which has grown up knowing nothing but Labour rule, and have, as a result of Labour education policies, spent their formative years being told
what to think rather than
how to think?
And lets remind ourselves why the Tories had so sell off / privatise everything. It was because the previous Labour government made such a clusterfuck of the economy that the country was bankrupt, and to maintain the provision of essential services, the Tories had to sell off some of the family silver. This has been the story with Labour ever since its formation under Ramsay Macdonald. A Labour government
always leaves behind a wrecked economy or a sterling crisis. You just need to read the history books to see that.
OK you might say, but what of the Tories and "Black Wednesday". Ahh yes. Where they spent about £3.4 Billion trying to protect the Pound from speculators. Twice that amount, by the most optimistic government figures, is currently
preventably defrauded from the social security budget
every year.
Or that other favourite of the left, the clarion call of "Interest rates at 15%" under the Tories. In fact, interest rates only went up to 12%, there was merely a statement that they might be raised to 15%, and interest rates remained at 12% for precisely
one afternoon, before falling back the following morning to 10%.
OK you might say, but interest rates are currently at 0.5%. Yes, and why? To hide the fact that Labour are printing money like mad to try and hide the mess they've caused. Wondered why everything is getting so expensive these past few years? Wonder why petrol / diesel is getting so pricey (other than the 75% plus tax rates on fuel) ? It's because we currently have to import so much. and most of it is priced in dollars. With the pound sinking against all other major currencies because of Labour's wrecking of the economy, guess what. Everything becomes more expensive. The government now spends more each year, according to its own figures, in servicing the annual interest bill on government debt than it does on education, transport or defence. Is that right? Is that good? People are getting poorer under Labour in real terms as their salaries remain the same in the current recession, while taxes, and the cost of everything people need to live is getting more and more expensive all the time. Official figures say inflation is running at about 3-4%. If you compared your fuel / shopping bills to a year ago, you'd realise its actually closer to 10% or more.
Re: your earlier point Quasi, in relation to my comment about wars and university education, I agree, the Tories would almost certainly have done the same. What sickens / frightens me, is that had the Tories done this, there would have been riots and widescale civil unrest, union led public sector strikes and probably a vote of no confidence in a Tory government in parliament. And yet, because it was Labour that did it, people essentially let themselves get buttfucked without a single squeal of protest. Why is that do you think? Hitler was a monster, and is rightly hated. Yet Joseph Stalin, who actually killed more people, and had more and bigger concentration camps, is never vilified in the same way. Why is that? Because he was nominally "left wing". Why does that seem to be an excuse for the most egregious behaviour, and for people who should, and do know better, to look the other way?
It's as if people somehow seem blind to Labours vast faults, simply because they
talk a good fight about looking after the poor. I say
talk because they've never actually
delivered on that talk. In fact, if you think about it, it is
manifestly in Labour's interest to keep their supporters poor, and poorly educated. If they didn't, and those people genuinely got a chance to improve their lives, they wouldn't vote Labour any more.
On the current possible Tory / Liberal coalition - I'll be optimistic, and say this might work out well. The Liberals might reign in some of the harsher proposed Tory policies, in the same way as the Tories might restrain some of the Liberal's dafter ideas, like ceding more power to unelected Eurocrats. On current figures, a Lib/Tory coalition would also have 59.1% of the total popular vote, as compared to 52.1% which a Lib/Labour coalition would have. I know what I think is more democractic.
Oh well, just have to wait and see I guess ...