General Election 2010

I have decided now upon a beer induced whim that my favourite government so far has been John Major's minority govt because apart from a small recession, abolishing the Poll Tax and making TV guides publish rival channel listings, I can't think of a single thing his government actually did

A small recession? Didn't seem that small to me at the time. I was at a comprehensive secondary school at the time. No one had any money. It's hard for people born, say, in the late 1980s onwards to appreciate what a recession managed under Friedmanite principles is like. Massive NHS waiting lists, derelict buildings, public services starved of money with demoralised staff. It's still an era that seems synonymous in my mind with depression.