Posted on 09/14/2014 7:00:23 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Seems like I’ve heard that before....
Until the government has to pay the bills (without relying upon London or the Bank of England) that is..
then their socialism falls apart!
Oh yes, Thatcher, the worst PM they ever had.
Give me a fricken break!
I see the Left works it’s magic in Britain’s MSM also.
They do have the Royal Bank of Scotland.
This is really about the US-UK difference, not about Thatcher vs Reagan.
The key is the nature of class in the UK.
Thatcher was solidly middle class in origins and outlook. She was not in the loop with the traditional aristocracy and gentry, so she was seen as gauche by this lot. Many of these people are actually left wing.
On the other hand the old labor voting lower class considers itself defined as more of a tribe than an economic class.
So one does not easily move from class to class. It was much more like changing tribes than changing income levels.
Orwell had a very neat explanation of the whole thing in Wigan Pier.
In the US one can easily make money and be accepted by our upper class. And most people, even across a very broad range of incomes, consider themselves middle class. Reagan was born poor to a shop clerk, but never considered himself unable to mix socially with anyone. Richard Nixon was an even more extreme case, being born in extreme poverty. And George Bush, a patrician by any historical standard, understood and could speak as an equal with anyone.
They most definitely are more socialist and have been for generations.
But they will not be allowed to use the British Pound.
? “I realized, as a young man, that things like this would happen again, where Scotland was quite clear in its wish not to have Tory policies, not to have the right-wing nature of Thatcherism.”
Can’t take responsibility for your failures? Blame a conservative. In the media and want to shill for the left? Blame a conservative. Thanks Tailgunner Joe.
Since the 1960’s overall, some areas since the formation (by a Scot) of the Labour Party.
No thanks. We’re staying.
‘Thatcher is no way at the same league as Reagan.’
You got that right.
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