• created the NHS
• social security for the most vulnerable
• provided child benefits for hard-working families
• set up universal pensions
• raised the school-leaving age
• outlawed sexual, racial and now age discrimination
• established the Open University
• widened access to higher education
• introduced a minimum wage
• introduced a minimum employee holiday entitlement
• extended NHS patient choice
  
• established Welsh and Scottish assemblies
  
• radical House of Lords reform
• created an executive Mayor for London

• Black Wednesday
• two massive economic recessions
  
• millions out of work in the 1980s
• the coal mining industry destroyed
• the steel industry destroyed
  
• socially divisive social policies
• mass de-industrialisation destroying entire communities
• mass sell-off of council housing without stock replenishment
• national assets sold for pennies
  
• privatisation of British Rail
• closure of long-term NHS facilities
• pension earnings link removed
• abolished the Greater London Council

        ... it speaks for itself, really ...