And still more on the late, great Margaret Thatcher:
Thatcher was right, and the left was wrong.
An appreciation by Paul Johnson.
Thatcher didn’t just smash paralyzing, militant trade unions, she also smashed the traditional British class structure.
Reagan’s greatest ally.
Thatcher appealed to the workers, not the shirkers.
Attention British liberals: Margaret Thatcher was not an all-powerful Satan.
This is incredible quaintness bordering on total delusion, the notion that Thatcher invented or popularised the previously unpopular notion of selfishness is laughable. As if before Margaret Thatcher the population of Britain was a kibbutz, or British people were known for their intense altruism, tossing money out of windows in the hope that literally anyone else would have it… She was a democratically elected politician after all, she won three elections and lost none, she didn’t dictate the mood of the public, rightly or wrongly – she reflected it.
One of the many enterprises Thatcher’s policies helped out? Theater.
What is the proper way for British left-wingers to celebrate Thatcher’s demise? Why, smash a charity shop’s windows and injure six policemen, of course.
Tags: Foreign Policy, Margaret Thatcher, UK, unions, Welfare State
This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 at 7:14 AM and is filed under Foreign Policy, unions, Welfare State. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.