I didn’t try to show Anne (or Robert) this documentary as the short shrift it would have received would likely result in rather more damaging consequences
But the points made are valid. Thatcher was not a conservative in the traditional sense. She didn’t believe in the uniparty taking turns to manage the “family silver” as Harold McMillan put it and did believe in individual responsibility creating a better society with a much smaller government
Whether or not she succeeded is open to discussion . But she was hated more by the Tory hierarchy than the left who couldn’t abide the idea of the individual having a measure of control over their own lives and consequently hammered at the cost to reset to the neo liberal free market of the 1980s and 1990s
34 years after Thatcher’s political fall, and we find ourselves in post 2008 financial injury time for the globalist neo liberal economic model, and the same people still cannot accept that change is necessary and with it comes a hefty cost. After over a decade of debauched QE free money abuse to prop up the failing Western financial system and sovereign debts that fewer want to own, what else do they expect ?
Away from the confected faux rage on display at the Westminster theatre, I have hope via the story about two fierce political opponents who used to meet up regularly but secretly over glasses of whisky for frank & blunt discussions about politics and improving society When he died in 1991, standing next to his wife at the funeral was she in tears mourning an opponent she respected
An interesting story John and not one I remember hearing. Thatcher had the fire to continue the change once started and to resist the establishment fight back.
A similar persistence will be required of our Millennial leaders next decade. In time they will be painted as evil by the establishment, for this is the price of progress.
Very interesting article thank you
https://youtu.be/8J3Wp_xMliI?si=ED_H-BqBZvGP4DfX
I didn’t try to show Anne (or Robert) this documentary as the short shrift it would have received would likely result in rather more damaging consequences
But the points made are valid. Thatcher was not a conservative in the traditional sense. She didn’t believe in the uniparty taking turns to manage the “family silver” as Harold McMillan put it and did believe in individual responsibility creating a better society with a much smaller government
Whether or not she succeeded is open to discussion . But she was hated more by the Tory hierarchy than the left who couldn’t abide the idea of the individual having a measure of control over their own lives and consequently hammered at the cost to reset to the neo liberal free market of the 1980s and 1990s
34 years after Thatcher’s political fall, and we find ourselves in post 2008 financial injury time for the globalist neo liberal economic model, and the same people still cannot accept that change is necessary and with it comes a hefty cost. After over a decade of debauched QE free money abuse to prop up the failing Western financial system and sovereign debts that fewer want to own, what else do they expect ?
Away from the confected faux rage on display at the Westminster theatre, I have hope via the story about two fierce political opponents who used to meet up regularly but secretly over glasses of whisky for frank & blunt discussions about politics and improving society When he died in 1991, standing next to his wife at the funeral was she in tears mourning an opponent she respected
Their names ? Margaret Thatcher and Eric Heffer
An interesting story John and not one I remember hearing. Thatcher had the fire to continue the change once started and to resist the establishment fight back.
A similar persistence will be required of our Millennial leaders next decade. In time they will be painted as evil by the establishment, for this is the price of progress.