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Pretty much all of them during Thatcher's latter years and the Major years. Then Labour got in and piled funding into the NHS and developed a fairly successful series of back to work programmes - all of which got defunded or closed down when the Tories got back in.
The recession which was primarily a result of the global financial meltdown was laid wholly at the door of Labour and used as a rationale for the next phase of destruction of the welfare state and socialised medicine.
This is what always happens. The Tories get into power and sell off/privatise anything they can, defund or shrink the rest and then when labour get back in they have a broken system to try and mend, which costs a lot, and then the tories can point to Labour's dreadful 'tax and spend' policies as a way of getting back in to do the same again.
I am glad I am over 25. I am glad I got my degree when fees were still reasonable and finance available. I am glad I am not yet old.
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