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Why does no one talk about how Ted Heath took us into the Common Market in 1972/73?
Why does no one talk about how Thatcher helped create the Single Market?
Why does no one talk about how Thatcher deregulated the banking sector and created a 'casino economy'? and when the global recession in 2008 happened it hit us even harder
Why does no one talk about how John Major persuaded Thatcher to sign up to the European Exchange rate Mechanism?
Why does no one talk about how Thatcher created the Poll tax which then led her being ousted by her own party?
Why does no one talk about how in 1992 Black Wednesday occurred due to us being in the European Exchange rate Mechanism and how the country lost billions which led to a recession?
Why does no one talk about how John Major signed the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 without asking the electorate?
Why does no one talk about how Gordon Brown bailed out the banks in 2008 so that people didn't lose their money?

All people say is Labour ruined the country in the 1970s and in 2008.

In 1973 there was an oil crisis which was global. Which meant the price of petrol rocketed making all transport more expensive. The then Conservative Government led by Ted Heath was struggling to cope with high food prices caused by global shortages which meant inflation went up. The Unions and the Miners went on strike because they wanted higher wages to be in line with the high inflation rate. In 1978-79 which was called the 'Winter of Discontent' the public sector and trade unions demanded larger pay rises and the strikes were due to Labour and Jim Callaghan trying to control inflation by imposing rules on the unions and public sector by saying pay rises must be kept below 5% to control inflation.

In 2008 there was a global financial crisis which was caused by the bankers and Labour bailed out the banks using taxpayers money so they wouldn't go to the wall and people wouldn't lose their money and the Tories who were in opposition at the time backed this but the media and the Tories in 2010 peddled the myth that it was Labour who caused the global financial crisis and people believed it and they still do.