"Look, I am not here to be helpful. I am here to help myself, right, so I have no regrets to how I treated some people." - Also Kelvin MacKenzie. Toxic Murdoch ****bag. I hope he chokes on his Christmas turkey, the ****.
I posted about this guy the other day. Turns out that he's not Jewish, his grandparents didn't flee the holocaust and he's not gay. That's on top of making up his education, his work history and a charity. He's also wanted in Brazil, having fled a court summons and he's funded by a Russian oligarch.
In effect Tories of the 70's means the Heath government up until 74. Yes it's very true that they were a very different breed to the post Thatcher Tories. At the time I hated Heath but in hindsight the perspective on his term in office is quite different. This was the time of wage caps and Heath wanted to set a £4 limit to wage rises. The unions were arguing for a percentage cap. Heath pointed out that settling for £4 meant the lower paid received a bigger increase than higher earners, setting a percentage would work in the opposite way. I remember at the time thinking it was surprising for a Tory. This was the time of James Goldsmith setting up a CUT TAXES campaign as the extreme right started to use the tactics of the left. They won, as the election of Thatcher showed in 79. At first extremely unpopular she turned it around by going to war in the Falklands and was then encouraged by Milton Friedman to realise that this was her chance to introduce neo-liberal economics. Her first reaction was that she would never get away with it. Nice Milton explained how it was easier to introduce such measures under cover of war and strife when the public were distracted. She bought it, and did it, and the western world followed suit. This is what the world has to get rid of if we want fairer societies.
Not disagreeing with that at all, but having worked in those circles in her later years in Gov and after, I also draw a very thick line between her (and most of her Govs) and the breed from 2010 onwards. She actually believed (rightly or wrongly) in her policies, that they would be to the ultimate benefit of the country. Now their only instinct is for lining their own pockets at any cost, driven far more by clandestine authorities and paymasters - mostly international. I'm not saying that there wasn't corruption then, god knows there was, but not on the industrial and blatant '**** you' scale of today.
He's really determined to make sure that, if he were to need an ambulance, it will take a detour on the way to hospital - via Liverpool
I have often argued that Thatcher was one of the few prime ministers who actually did what she said she would do. Within her political views she had integrity, I agree. However her policies have directly led to the me, me society and the corruption of the current bunch stems from that. I blame Thatcher for the whole shebang.
I never agreed with her either, although didn't suffer the worst impacts of her policies. In that regard I was fortunate.
Neither did I, because as soon as she was re-elected I knew that I had to work for myself. Working for someone else in those conditions would not be good. The irony being that, that was what Thatcher wanted people to do. The whole group of the population who just wanted security rather than pursuing money that chose to do jobs like postmen, railway porters, milkmen had their security of employment destroyed. The group who had a vocation like nurses, firemen, and teachers have also been exploited. The greedy have profited and now the greedy rule the roost.
