Are New Labour failing "to make capital out of an avalanche of positive news"? Is Britain actually doing well?

Question

According to Polly Toynbee's latest article in the Guardian, that's exactly what's happening: "This week an avalanche of good policies tripped over each other so fast they fell into oblivion ... Scrapping the 2p petrol-duty rise hardly registered - nor the excellent first-time buyers' boost, so they pay only 80% of the rent on a property until they can put down on the mortgage; the army gets a GI bill with free university on demob; Whitehall goes carbon neutral; mayors are given the police ... This week's crime figures ["the best crime figures ever"] are the best evidence. High employment and many more staying on at school after 16 are part of the reason why; 600,000 fewer children are poor, while Sure Start and nursery schools will change many lives (though results won't show until the children grow up); an NHS with no waiting lists, schools rebuilt and staffed with better-qualified teachers, while the Every Child a Reader scheme will cut illiteracy in primary-school leavers".

True?

Answer 1

The Right Wing Press have their knives drawn. It does them no good to focus on positives. They just want to use their powers to getr the Tories back in. They are making a mockery out of democracy and talking the country into recession. However as they are run by big business they have their own agenda to run.

The British people wanted an end to spin, however this means that the good is looked over, as would not have happened in the time of Campbell, Mandelson etc. We are too used to spin, once it is removed we are  left at the mercy of Murdoch to tell us what to think.

Answer 2

The UK is on the cusp of a serious economic downturn and appears to be in serious moral decline. Having had the most inept Government of all time, I hope your question is tongue in cheek. Quoting Polly Toynbee and the Guardian, however, who are very much part of the problem, tells me that you are probably serious. If so, I wouldn't know where to begin to explain how wrong I think you are.