[PDF file]: […] Britain would rank behind Mississippi, the poorest state in the United States. (p. 19) The third lie, of course, is that There Is No Alternative (TINA). Mrs Thatcher was central to all this. Margaret Thatcher’s time as prime minister, though confined to little more than a decade, had momentous consequences. Her policies reshaped the […]
[…] Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. For a political leader, like Mrs Thatcher, acknowledging error and changing minds is a peculiar problem. A leader attracts followers, or builds a coalition of support, based on two things: policies and prospects […]
[…] in the 1980s, either allowing domestic manufacturing to relocate abroad or failing to create conditions at home for it to prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there […]
[PDF file]: […] when Ken said it. Ken may have come from the world of the Trot groupescules,17 but he understood British political economy.18 For a political leader, like Mrs Thatcher, acknowledging error and changing minds is a peculiar problem. A leader attracts followers, or builds a coalition of support, based on two things: policies and prospects […]
[…] in the 1980s, either allowing domestic manufacturing to relocate abroad or failing to create conditions at home for it to prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there […]
[…] fantasies on the British right about the communist threat to Britain. In a recent essay Richard Norton-Taylor has written: A senior Home Office civil servant reported that Thatcher was ‘convinced that a secret communist cell around Scargill was orchestrating the strike in order to bring down the country’.2 Which raises the interesting question of […]
[…] fantasies on the British right about the communist threat to Britain. In a recent essay Richard Norton-Taylor has written: A senior Home Office civil servant reported that Thatcher was ‘convinced that a secret communist cell around Scargill was orchestrating the strike in order to bring down the country’.2 Which raises the interesting question of […]
[…] fantasies on the British right about the communist threat to Britain. In a recent essay Richard Norton-Taylor has written: A senior Home Office civil servant reported that Thatcher was ‘convinced that a secret communist cell around Scargill was orchestrating the strike in order to bring down the country’.2 Which raises the interesting question of […]
[PDF file]: […] Army (INLA) managed to place a car bomb within the precincts of the Houses of Parliament. Conservative MP Airey Neave, a key figure in the rise of Thatcher within the Conservative Party, died as a result of the blast.1 Less than six months later, on 27 August 1979, co-ordinated attacks by the IRA killed […]
[PDF file]: […] government to direct the economy; and no reacquisition of the privatised state assets, the roughly £100 billion of taxationcreated assets flogged-off for around £50 billion during the Thatcher years. All talk of justice, fairness and redistribution had been stripped from the vocabulary. They had learned the central mantra of neo-liberalism: private good, public bad. […]
