I am surprised that no-one has mentioned the passing of Nigel Lawson in here today. I had forgotten just how significant he was as a politician in the 1980s and instrumental in Margaret Thatcher's drive to push the economy towards the open market.
I had a discussion many years ago with someone who was much older than me who had argued that the 1960s were the most important decade of the 20th century and she would not accept that the changes to society instigated in the 1980s under the likes of Reagan and Thatcher would have far wider consequences. I would have to say that I feel vindicated these days at the double whammy of looser control of the markets and the emergence of compiter technology has ensured that capitalism has become a beast we can no longer control. People very much serve the ecomony as opposed to the economy serving people. I would argue that the blame for this very much lies with the likes of Lawson and his ilk with capitalism very mich meaning a race to the bottom and one that is taking the ecology along with it. Thanks to Lawson we now have seen public services put in the hands of the private sector with the impact of fewer services that barely function and usually both commercially unviable and outside of the price range for many normal citizens. Privatisation has seen people pay more for a worse service and this was largely done under Lawson's watch in the UK.
I last saw Nigel Lawson on "Question Time" a few years ago where he cut a ridiculous figure arguing about the benefits of Brexit whilst living in France and arguing that global warming was exagerated. With the passage of time he had become a foolish old man and , like so many people from the political Right, utterly ridiculous.
I had a discussion many years ago with someone who was much older than me who had argued that the 1960s were the most important decade of the 20th century and she would not accept that the changes to society instigated in the 1980s under the likes of Reagan and Thatcher would have far wider consequences. I would have to say that I feel vindicated these days at the double whammy of looser control of the markets and the emergence of compiter technology has ensured that capitalism has become a beast we can no longer control. People very much serve the ecomony as opposed to the economy serving people. I would argue that the blame for this very much lies with the likes of Lawson and his ilk with capitalism very mich meaning a race to the bottom and one that is taking the ecology along with it. Thanks to Lawson we now have seen public services put in the hands of the private sector with the impact of fewer services that barely function and usually both commercially unviable and outside of the price range for many normal citizens. Privatisation has seen people pay more for a worse service and this was largely done under Lawson's watch in the UK.
I last saw Nigel Lawson on "Question Time" a few years ago where he cut a ridiculous figure arguing about the benefits of Brexit whilst living in France and arguing that global warming was exagerated. With the passage of time he had become a foolish old man and , like so many people from the political Right, utterly ridiculous.
