It’s easy to look at the last 14 years in isolation, but any government would have struggled under the weight of a historic global pandemic and an unprecedented European energy crisis following the war in Ukraine.
Let's not forget the financial mess left behind in 2010. The Conservatives had to make incredibly difficult choices to stabilise the economy after a global crash, all while later protecting millions of jobs through furlough and delivering a world-leading vaccine rollout.
Perfect? No. But through major structural changes, like introducing the National Living Wage and driving massive investment into next gen tech', they proved to be the only party willing to make the pragmatic, grown-up decisions required to steer the country through the biggest global shocks since WWII.
Labour wouldn't have magically avoided those global crises, and they certainly don't have the answers now.
If you think the 14 years were unstable, Reform would be a total disaster. Their economic plans are completely uncosted fantasy, promising massive tax cuts alongside public spending that independent economists warn would tank the markets far worse than the 2022 mini-budget. On top of that, they’ve proven they can’t even run their own organisation, spending the last year constantly sacking unvetted candidates, dealing with high-profile suspensions, and relying on dodgy, recycled figures like Nathan Gill.
If they can’t manage a political party without a revolving door of internal chaos, they certainly aren't stable or grown-up enough to run the country.