You might be correct, I may not be voting labour at the next election. I might vote lib dem - undecided at present.
But the country was in a much better state in 2010 than it is now - we had a better NHS, more police and less crime, fewer failing schools. The UK had sustained economic growth between 1997 and 2008 - the crash was a global one, and being part of a global economy, we were affected along with everybody else in the world. And as we all now know, the American housing policy was the main cause of this - still want to do business with Trump instead of the EU?
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/uk-growth-and-productivity-1997-to-2008/
Funny really, because at the time, the Tories were claiming that the growth was down to the previous Tory government. Now the spin doctors have made everybody think the labour years were bad, and that they failed.
You really should check the economic history books and not the right wing propaganda.
Some facts and opinions (from that link):
- The UK’s growth of GDP per capita – 1.42% a year between 1997 and 2010 – was better than in any of the other “G6” countries: Germany (1.26%), the US (1.22%), France (1.04%), Japan (0.52%) and Italy (0.22%).
- During the past 30 years, the UK has had a faster catch-up of GDP per capita with the US under Labour than under the Conservatives
- the biggest contributors to productivity increases were the business services and distribution sectors, and they were generated through the increased importance of skills and new technologies
- policies of the Labour government drove some of the productivity improvement. In particular, the strengthening of competition policy, the support for innovation, the expansion of university education and better regulation in telecoms and elsewhere played a positive role.
So, the evidence shows that labour actually did a great job for the economy, and conversely, the Tories austerity measures are holding back economic growth, and combine that with Brexit, we're pretty screwed really.
The full report
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/special/cepsp24.pdf