sonson
Striker
Reading a book called Strange Days Indeed about the 70s, 3 day week, Bloody Sunday etc. Knew a decent bit about it before but the parallels to it now are really interesting/terrifying.
Post Thatcher the cry against Labour has always been "cant go back to the 70's". But if Johnson dosent get some form of moratorium on the sharpest ends of Brexit it will be the Tories who have swung the clock back to before Thatcher, not the evil socialists. I mean a no deal Brexit always had that risk. I always found that weird, that Torys were harking back to a golden age when they were completely toothless and which unanimously everyone said was awful.
Although worryingly there is nothing like the experience and organisation for someone to oppose the Government as was the case with Heath. No union power to speak of and an opposition leader trying to win power through abstaining. Starmer needs to look back and see Thatcher got in on the back of chaos not because she was an alternative but because she made herself *The* alternative. But you actually have to stand for something to do that.
Post Thatcher the cry against Labour has always been "cant go back to the 70's". But if Johnson dosent get some form of moratorium on the sharpest ends of Brexit it will be the Tories who have swung the clock back to before Thatcher, not the evil socialists. I mean a no deal Brexit always had that risk. I always found that weird, that Torys were harking back to a golden age when they were completely toothless and which unanimously everyone said was awful.
Although worryingly there is nothing like the experience and organisation for someone to oppose the Government as was the case with Heath. No union power to speak of and an opposition leader trying to win power through abstaining. Starmer needs to look back and see Thatcher got in on the back of chaos not because she was an alternative but because she made herself *The* alternative. But you actually have to stand for something to do that.
