Posted on 07/30/2016 1:23:18 PM PDT by Lorianne
By my estimate, only three politicians have made a genuine, enduring difference to Britain in the past 50 years.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that they have very contrasting characteristics.
First, there was Roy Jenkins, Labour’s Home Secretary in the Sixties. He was regarded as the father of the Permissive Society — legalising homosexuality, abolishing hanging, ending censorship, reforming abortion and divorce laws.
Then there was Edward Heath, the Tory prime minister in the Seventies who negotiated Britain’s entry into the nascent European Union (then misleadingly known as the Common Market).
Heath was a disagreeable man and failed in countless areas, but there is no doubt that getting the UK joined to other European countries was a major achievement — albeit with detrimental consequences.
Third was Margaret Thatcher, the greatest prime minister of the post-war period. She destroyed the power of the over-mighty trade unions, yanked the economy off its knees and restored national pride. We’re still benefiting from her foresight and bravery.
Now, in the aftermath of Brexit, we can add Nigel Farage as a fourth change-maker (to use the buzzword employed this week by Bill Clinton about his wife Hillary).
Farage, who has announced his resignation as the leader of Ukip, has never even been an MP. Yet his political legacy will be far more profound than that of most prime ministers.
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Not really getting the 'but'. Sounds as if he think being badly thought of by leftards is a drawback of some sort.
The video embedded in the article was utter rubbish - called Farage a grandstander and racist total statist, Eurotrash propaganda. I can’t believe the Daily Mail would put such trash “euronews” on their website.
That's pretty much what the DM specializes in. Every day they run up to a dozen Kardashian stories, and all kinds of tabloid trash, with little or no editing, terrible grammar and spelling, loads of factual errors. But you can't beat the photographs, and the comments section is always very entertaining, and often more informative than the articles.
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Reminds me. I need to make a run for some Boddington’s.
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