The now-familiar version of our island story is that we all spent the 1970s in industrial chaos, with successive governments failing to confront the overbearing unions, until Margaret Thatcher arrived and set about deregulating markets, privatising public assets and generally encouraging citizens to work only for ourselves and our own self-interest.
The biggest scandal is that the NHS may start setting up for-profit clinics in developing countries such as India, having denuded those countries of their precious medical and nursing staff by dint of successive governments failing to train enough of our own staff.
Ministers started implementing it three years ago, and have been criticised by successive watchdogs for failing to come clean about the problems the DWP has experienced with the technology.
If the worry is that housing is either poor quality or too costly, for yourself and your children, blame successive governments for failing to support good quality state-sponsored housing.
Ministers started implementing it three years ago, but have been criticised by successive watchdogs for failing to come clean about the problems the DWP has experienced with the technology.
She blames successive governments for failing to see the value of arts education: "Creativity has had a real battering, from different political persuasions, and I would say the backlash against a more expressive education is really frightening, because the creative industries – everything Britain is famous for now – aren't the product of the last 10-15 years, but of what went before".
In his letter, Mr Gove said: "The system is failing successive cohorts of pupils in North Yorkshire.
Briton Hamilton, who won the world title in 2008, has won three successive races after failing to finish the opening grand prix in Australia.
Mid-term report: After finishing last season without a trophy, it is almost unfathomable that the Catalan giants could finish a second successive season by failing to stick their hands on some silverware.
A sweeping move saw the ball moved from left to right, and Matt Hopper timed his pass to perfection to allow Walker to step inside past Tom Johnson's tackle and dive over, but Evans missed his third successive kick by failing with the conversion.
