You really twist yourself around here. But this?

> Decades of populist left or centre-left governments have kept the prices artificially low whilst requiring investment, resulting in a huge accumulation of debt.

Bloody Tories, the whole problem isn't that they were in charge for 32 years from 1979-2024, it's the 13 years of Blair. They have been powerless to stop the spooky Left and fix the pipes before the water was privatised (or anything afterwards, because obviously it's still the Left)!

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qcnguy 4 days ago | parent [-]

The Tories are a centre-left party. That's why they lost the support of conservative voters at the last election and are now in the doldrums, with much of their base having defected to Reform.

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happymellon 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> The Tories are a centre-left party.

Oh boy. That's funny.

> much of their base having defected to Reform.

Yes, they found a party they will say the quiet bits out loud, so they don't feel as uncomfortable being bigots and racists.

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ahartmetz 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe they are now (I doubt it), but they surely weren't under Thatcher.

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overfeed 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The Tories decided to flank Farage from the right during the last elections. Calling them "centre-left" is a joke.

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qcnguy 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Correct. But by "decades" I meant in the 40 years since Thatcher.

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cma 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Water was privatized in the 90s after Thatcher.

	▲	happymellon 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The pipes that "are Victorian and should have been replaced before privatisation" were around before then. They have had plenty of time to replace them.

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Der_Einzige 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You must think that the lib dems are now more conservative than them.

Bullocks. All of your argument is bullocks

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Podrod 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>The Tories are a centre-left party.

You honestly believe this? If so: Jesus H. Christ!

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p1necone 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I was hopeful that the eventual endgame of right wingers blaming everything on the left when the right was in charge for literal decades would be for them to eventually maybe consider that that wasn't the problem.

Turns out I was wrong, all it takes is to no-true-scotsman everything into the "bad wrong left wing" bucket on the quest to move the overton window ever rightwards. Hilarious. The mental gymnastics knows no bounds.