Cranmer casts a jaundiced eye over Blair and Brown’s record. Some, uh, highlights:

Between 1997 Q2 and 2009 Q3, manufacturing as a share of GDP declined by 9.3 percentage points, from 20.7 per cent of GDP to 11.4 per cent of GDP . . . 8.16 million working age people are classed as economically inactive – the highest number since records began in 1971 . . .
Hospital-acquired infections now kill more than three times as many people as are killed on the roads every year . . .
Since the first OECD comparative study on education was conducted in 2001, the UK has fallen from 8th to 24th place in maths. In reading, the UK has fallen from 7th to 17th place, and in science from 4th to 14th place.

And that’s just the beginning.