General Election 2010

I realise we may not share the same views, but do you really believe the things you just posted... as in, literally believe them?

I have probably missed the rest of the debate but I find your views scary if I've read them correctly, seemingly based as they are on a strange version of history that I'm not sure I lived through.

I got some of it off Wikipedia: Black Wednesday, that source of infallible knowledge:

The effect of the high German interest rates, and high British interest rates, had been arguably to put Britain into recession as large numbers of businesses failed and the housing market crashed. Some commentators, following Norman Tebbit, took to referring to ERM as an "Eternal Recession Mechanism"[6] after the UK fell into recession during the early 1990s. Whilst many people in the UK recall 'Black Wednesday' as a national disaster, the forced ejection from the ERM paved the way for an economic revival, the Conservatives handing Tony Blair's New Labour a much stronger economy in 1997 than had existed in 1992. This has prompted some commentators to re-label 16 September 1992 as White Wednesday. [7]
Unfortunately for the government, the country's strong economic performance after 1992 did little to repair the reputation of the Conservatives for competent handling of the economy. Instead, the government's image had been damaged to the extent that the electorate were more inclined to believe opposition arguments of the time - that the economic recovery ought to be credited to external factors, as opposed to good government policies.

My original point about John Major's government being the best because it didn't do anything was a beer-induced joke, by the way.