Is more than 8 years too long for a government to be be in office in the UK?
One of the reasons (there are many others) that the Conservatives (18 years in office) did not get re-elected in 1997 was that the public had lost its confidence in what they could do and the perceived level of ‘sleaze’ surrounding them.
Listening to Tony Blair’s ‘whiter than white’ statement upon his landslide election victory, seems to now be the typical political rhetoric that it was.
As the Labour party scrambles to ‘clean’ the ‘mat’, the public polls are now showing that the same public disdain is now focusing on their version of sleaze.
Perhaps 8 years ‘is too long!
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