"This is not a song taking delight from the prospect of anybody's death or illness, this is about the fight that will take place for the correct telling of history and the lasting implications of the Tory governments of 1979-1997."
Yeah right.
Bond
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The correct telling?
The story of the miners is a bloke mugging a slightly dim bloke and then spotting his brother, taking a swing at him, only to discover that the guy's brother is a black belt in karate, who puts him in hospital.
And then spends the next 35 years complaining about how a bloke beat him up.
I mean 25 years.
I remember the 70s wih horror. Power cuts. Rail strikes. Mail strikes. Dock strikes. The fact that I am glad these no longer happen now that the weather is so cold presumably means that I am a victim of bourgeois false-consciousness. I am proud. Thanks for Maggie and Tebbit. PS does Arthur Scargill still live in a house in Belgravia paid by miners' union subs?
Most of the strikes kicked off because employers refused pay increases that took full account of inflation.It was n't just the British unions: the oil producers warned that they were pissed off with being paid in what were ,in effect, depreciating currencies and so staged the oil price hike that threw the ruling class into a flat spin.
An awful lot of our 'wealth' seems to have been as a result of selling off what turned out to be a gold mine of businesses and utilities and - quite evidentally by our horrific debt levels - easier access to credit.
Now we have big bills which have no chance of paying because all the industry has gone.
I don't believe for a minute that Mrs Thatcher wanted it to go this way. And the short part of that clip that I watched had the collapse of the USSR totally wrong.
@ everybody, there are glaring inaccuracies in the lyrics to that song, which I have pointed out to him. Great tune though.
EK, yes, Make-A-Quick-Buckism and Home-Owner-Ism are much the same thing. It must be clear how it always ends up (i.e. with what we have now).
E-K Quite. We have been on a giant national equity release scheme since about 1900 - ish. But that's what happens if you spend more than you earn. And as MW says that all seems to have been split between HOI/MAQBI and welfareism. In other words both the Tories and the Socialists are at fault. Or perhaps we are all at fault seeing as how you get the government you deserve, allegedly.
Trouble with Maggie was she was about half right, but the bits she got wrong she got very wrong. Maybe if she had read more about Georgism to supplement her reading of Hayek she might have been better.
But as Graeme says I too remember the 1970's and it was bloody dire.
L: "Trouble with Maggie was she was about half right, but the bits she got wrong she got very wrong."
I tend to agree.
"Maybe if she had read more about Georgism to supplement her reading of Hayek she might have been better."
I'm quite sure she was made aware of Georgism and its benefits. And she did exactly the opposite. That must have been deliberate.
L: "Trouble with Maggie was she was about half right, but the bits she got wrong she got very wrong."
Even the bits she got right, she got wrong, i.e. she did the right thing in the worst way possible.
MW - Yes, there is a political - jerrymandering - argument for her doing the opposite.
B - possibly. Sometimes you have no room or time to do the right thing well, or as well as you'd like. There's always fallout. What examples do you have in mind?
Well, things like privatisation, reform of local taxation, cutting public spending. All laudable initiatives, but all ended up being done in a way that gave the maximum gain to the usual suspects and the maximum pain to the non-Tory voting poor.
B, my own view is that she was a fan of the "toll booth economy".
She pretended to reduce the size of the state by reducing public-to-public transfers, but all she achieved was public-to-private transfers instead, i.e. privatise BT, BA, BG, whatever, but keep the pension debts in the public sector, allow them to keep their monopoly rental privileges.
Clearly, Nulab were much worse at this - see bank bailouts, PFI, quangocracy, green subsidies, Home-Owner-Ism etc.
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