Re: The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth Century History Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on March 12, 2019, 10:33 am, in reply to "The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth Century History"
There's an awful lot here to digest. I agree with most of his analysis, which kind of matches my own. Another potential career wasted? If one knew any Tory 'wets' when Thatcher was rising, they were ####ing appalled by what she was proposing and they shook their heads in stunned disbelief that anyone could take her primitive, free-market fantasies and dogmas, seriously. But they were shoved aside, with disasterous results to follow for millions and millions of people. Thatcher's hatred of the Unions was raving mad. They were a factor for stability, not 'revolution.' The costs of breaking Union 'power' by disindustrialising and undermining manufacturing culture that had taken centuries to develope, was ####ing insane! Intellectuals were, arguably, still depressed after the mass-murder of the two great wars against Germany. Intellectuals, given the class they mostly came from, saw the relative decline on the UK, the loss empire, in way to absolute terms, compared to most of the working class who saw their lot improving. Having access to a Doctor and healthcare, didn't mean much to an upper-class intellectual, who'd never had to worry about that in the first place! Just one example. Thatcher was lucky. Labour had run out of ideological road when she came along. Then the eledtoral system didn't help, giving her huge majorities when most of the voters were against her policies by substantial majorities. Which is why I wrote 'a kind of dictatorship?' on the blakcboard, once opon a time. Then, when things were really looking bad for her crazed project, based on crass ignorance of how modern capitalism functioned, an embrace between the state and the 'marketplace' she got lucky again, and the Argentinians invaded the Falklands, allowing her to become an 'iron lady' and a great war-hero like Elizabeth 1, securing her 'popularity' and a couple of election victories.
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