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Plastic Person said:ChocolateStarfish said:That's the thing with strong leaders, they are often hated because they make difficult choices that some people don't like.
She must of been right most of the time or she would have been voted out.
British politics has followed a depressingly similar course ad infinitum ever since WW2. The Tories have little interest in the common welfare of the majority, but gain votes predicated on a campaign that focuses on deliberately divisional issues such as race and social class, the classic "Are you thinking what we're thinking stuff?" Admittedly this is usually done in the wake of overspending by a left leaning government. People voted Thatcher in on the strength of this rhetoric, but then, as now, realised the mistake they had made. Or in some cases, they didn't vote her in at all, and suffered the brunt regardless.
Absolutely spot on! I fell for the Big Society nonsense as it tied in with much of what I was doing - interesting not a SOLITARY Tory could be contacted or responded to calls for help, yet both Labour and Green party top brass (and I mean TOP brass) did so with great joy and spirit of giving back...
Lesson learned there, that is for sure.
They spin their way out of making frankly unbelievable statements and actions. Well they don't, but they actually don't care, their "is he one of us?" moniker so abundantly and famously used by Thatcher is still clearly prevalent to day, is one of such incredible arrogance I really do struggle to understand how anyone can support it.
Interestingly, they do make some sensible decisions, more balanced than the sometimes socialist insistence everyone must be equal, even if they don't want to be ;D - but then their economic and general social policies are almost Victorian in their nature.
Can anyone honestly say, this government does not have that same Thatcherism "Is He One of Us?" attitude?