General Election 2010

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.

That recession, the big one (which now seems minor compared with the one we've got now) was during the previously Thatcher govt, when he won the leadership battle and took over. Yeah, that was rubbish.
I meant the one afterwards, when he was elected on a slim majority which turned into a minority.

born in the early 70s by the way. I experienced the 3 day week. The 80s were nothing in comparison.