Donald Trump Appreciation Thread

[Gloucester Saint]

10 hours ago, Turkish said:

 

So in 200 years we’ve come up with 3 in the world. 

Context is key. You could argue if your family took up the right to buy scheme in the 1980s that Margaret Thatcher did - there’s a counter argument that the lack of re-investment into social housing has created the current crisis. Tony Blair’s government introduced the national minimum wage despite broadsheet claims it would cost 1.7m jobs (it didn’t) and the successful Sure Start centres, but many other policies carried on the Thatcher legacy of benefitting the middle classes and wealthy. 

So if you’re looking for politicians who really focused on the lowest paid and took a universal approach, you’re looking at Attlee/Bevan, and the consensus period up to 1976 when economic policies emphasised full employment and economics ran to the Keynesian model. Callaghan and Healey shifted to monetarism and public sector cuts to the role of the state to jump start an economy stagnating after the oil shocks, energy crisis and militant unions, and Thatcher accelerated that where you get to Lawson as CoE and the quote about unemployment being a price worth paying and the opening up of a north-south divide with de-industrialisation and shift to a heavily service-based economy. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[whelk]

We can all be cynical but is consciences of politicians obviously reacting to public opinion, who moved us out of the Victorian era to the pretty fair society we have now