The yoof of today think that Labour is what we had from 1997 to 2010, forgetting that was a much more centrist New Labour under Bliar.
The country wasn't in too bad shape then if you ignore the raft of PFIs, selling of half our gold reserves, assisting with bank deregulation that made the 2008 crash much, much worse and then compounded the problem by propping the banks up.
Those are the bits that Corbyn's Labour like to pretend didn't happen and that the idea of spending our way out of our current problems is a new and radical one and the only answer.
Perhaps if the last Labour govt hadn't left a note in the Treasury saying 'There's no money left', people might give the present bunch the benefit of the doubt but when they promise jam today and jam tomorrow with no idea of how to pay for it, it will make high house prices and personal debt look like something to dream of.