I can’t say quite how depressing it is to be a member of a political party which is led by such a lazy dickhead like Starmer. I can’t find a more literate way of describing this imposter. He’s written for the Sunday Telegraph that he admires Thatcher’s determination to shake Britain up, some garbage about her ’plan’ to take on the vested interests which had trapped us in a cycle of decay and thus her unleashing a tsunami of entrepreneurialism. He may not recall that Thatcher didn’t get elected in 1979 (when he was 17) with any grand plan, unless of course unrestrained monetarism was meant to cover all the angles, along with tax increases (no mention of them in her manifesto) and a huge waste of the North Sea oil bonanza counted as a coherent reform of the UK economy. Thatcher was washed up until General Galtieri provided a suitably weak ‘enemy without’ to prove her Iron Lady metal on. If throwing millions of people on the dole was a ‘plan’ that Starmer approves of, then God help us. He says (of course) that he doesn’t agree with her policies. Well said Keir, for most people it’s the policies that will have the greatest impact on their lives, not the over rated leadership qualities of whoever’s nominally in charge, so why say anything approving of Thatcher?
Who I wonder were these great entrepreneurs that Thatcher found so impressive? She wrote a three page letter to the widow of one such in 1991: ‘No one will ever replace the energy, vision and resolve personified in Mr Maxwell . . He was and will remain unique. Above all, Mr Maxwell showed the whole world that one person can move and influence events by using his own God given talents and abilities.’ (Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, John Preston, Penguin 2021 p.252) The last thing we need is another boneheaded meritocrat to claim the mantle of ‘strong’ leadership, employing no doubt their own innumerable God-given talents. Such hubristic politicians, so duty bound to promote themselves are anathema to genuine progress. I can only hope that there is enough residual strength left in the Labour Party to constrain this multiply pledge (i.e. policy) ditching charlatan. Oh Dear. I’m in for it now.
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