The Labour Government was not responsible for the global metdown but their irresponsible over spending made matters worse and it's only now after their bad election showing that they're finally admitting to it.
I think it's more a case of them realising there is no point arguing against it as the Tories mantra has well and truly soaked into the bloodstream of the masses and it is now an accepted 'fact' that Labour were at fault for almost bankrupting the country, regardless of how true that actually is (I personally don't think it's true at all, especially as the Tories backed every single spendnig plan of the previous Labour government, but clearly enough people swallowed it hook, line and sinker).
Any attempt to argue against this generally accepted belief is futile and just gets shouted down either by the press or by those who have been brainwashed into believing the Tories version of the 'truth'.
You have to hand it to them, the snidey bastards, they've played the long game perfectly, using the SNP along the way to put more fear into people, particularly the LibDem voters of the South-West who are the real ones responsible for the Tory majority tather than our friends north of the border. I still can't quite fully get my head around why do many LibDem voters abandoned their party and switched to the Conservatives, it just seems totally perverse to me and the only reason I can think of is that they all bought into the Tory line about how Miliband would have conceded too much power to Scotland, and therefore they did what they thought they had to do to avoid this threat of a Labour government. When I read comments calling Nicola Sturgeon the 'wicked witch' and such like I want to bang my head against the wall, I don't think anything she is doing is anything bad at all, it's just the Tories have made her out to be this dangerous animal who we all have to be fearful of. It's all propaganda, spin and fear-mongering and it's unfortunately what the Tories are very good at.
Incidentally for the record, I reckon I and my family will personally be better off under a Tory government, certainly financially we will, particularly if house prices keep rocketing (we made almost 200k on our house under the coallition). However as I alluded to above, it's not all about the money for me, and it's not even just about me for me, I believe a society should be judged on the way it treats those worst off, and I can see a lot of the little people at the bottom of the food chain being horribly left behind under this government with increasingly fewer places to turn for help, and that's why I could never bring myself to vote Tory, I just don't trust them and despise most of what they stand for.
Sadly not enough people looked past their own front door when voting and when it came to sticking a cross in their box all that mattered was how they as an individual would be effected, which I guess is everybody's prerogative at the end of the day, but I can't help but feel somewhat saddened by this. The worst ones are people who says things like "I never use the library so why should I care if they close them all down?", an actual conversation which I have had in the past six months that drove me to despair.
