A few replies so I'll try and address them all in a single post.
First off, if your defence is even remotely into the realms of 'It would have been worse under Labour' then please give your head a wobble, 'There's a parallel dimension that doesn't exist, that I just made up in my head, that I have decided would be worse than the one we're actually in, so therefore helping put the Tories into power was still the right thing to do' isn't a great debating position, y'know?
As to what Labour would have done differently, a couple of concrete examples, they've already said that they would have left the £20 uplift to Universal Credit in place (the Tories scrapped it, of course), which would have put £1000 more per year in the pockets of the the least well-off. They've also said they'd impose a Windfall Tax of several billion pounds on the energy companies (that are making out like bandits at the moment) and use that to reduce energy bills. They were also opposed to the wholesale winding down of the UK's gas storage facilities, which has left the country particularly vulnerable to energy price spikes.
Energy bills in the UK are going up 54%, you know how much they're going up in France? 5%. (And yes I'm aware France has more nuclear power than us, and other EU countries are seeing similar rises to the UK, but they're doing more to help their populations cope with the rises.)
As for Brexit, it's relevant because it's a massive drag on the UK's recovery, the long term hit to UK GDP from Brexit is expected to be around 4%, and ultimately will eclipse the economic damage caused by Covid. I thought the point of Brexit was the UK would be free to act dynamically on the world stage and avoid being mired in EU bureaucracy, so why all of a sudden is the defence of the UK's situation 'Oh well it's like that everywhere, nothing we can do about it'?
Also as goatwack's graphic illustrates above, there has been fraud and waste on an industrial scale under this Tory government, with tens of billions of pounds being spunked away, far more than the tax rise coming in April will raise. (A tax rise that Labour are opposed to.)
(As a fellow subscriber to Private Eye dunover will be well versed in how the British taxpayer has enriched the Tories and their mates throughout the pandemic with dodgy PPE contracts and suchlike, as part of their 'Profits Of Doom' series.)
The Johnson government is an absolute bin fire, the man himself is one of the worst Prime Ministers the UK has ever had, and his government is comprised of lightweights and incompetents, chosen for their nodding dog loyalty rather than any actual ability, when someone like Nadine Dorries is elevated to a ministerial position, a women possessed of the intellectual reasoning of a brain-damaged guinea pig, you know the game is up. I mean, fucking hell, the shit Diane Abbott used to get for relatively trivial screw-ups compared to what Dorries manages on near daily basis, and lest we forget, she thought her job as an MP was so important that she fucked off onto I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here for £40K for a month - and Johnson is like, yeah, she can be Culture Secretary, it's a sick joke at the expense of the British people.
Every day we get some bluff and bluster about 'levelling up' and some bullshit new initiative (with no new money) about fixing things that are deemed to be wrong, and I'm just like, fuck me folks, you've been in power for twelve years, anything that's shit at the moment is totally on you.
A terrible Prime Minister at the head of a terrible government, and the price is paid by the whole country.
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talk about inflation 
