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Red State (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... the present day, as the British spent 13 years pouring taxpayer money down this rathole. Margaret Thatcher was right to oppose the whole project - as Berlinski summarizes the Iron Lady’s thinking, “[i]f the economy was in crisis, she held, the government should waste less of the taxpayers’ money, not more” - but even Lady Thatcher lacked the political...
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Baseball Crank (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... the present day, as the British spent 13 years pouring taxpayer money down this rathole. Margaret Thatcher was right to oppose the whole project - as Berlinski summarizes the Iron Lady's thinking, "[i]f the economy was in crisis, she held, the government should waste less of the taxpayers' money, not more" - but even Lady Thatcher lacked the political strength...
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DYSPEPSIA GENERATION (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Read it. Hey, as Lady Thatcher pointed out, tax & spend only works until you run out of other people’s money.
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Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... the 1980s they spat blood and vented spleens against the industrial and union reforms of the Thatcher governments, which resulted in a significant decline in the UK's manufacturing base. Even today, some of the more unreconstructed dinosaurs of the TUC are content to lay the blame for Britain's economic ills at the door of a political party now out of power for 12 years, and one of its leaders...
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The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Manufacturing has suffered a sharper decline under Labour than it did in the 1980ies under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s leadership, the Daily Mail reports. The revelation will be an acute embarrassment for the Government, which have sought to portray the sector’s woes as a consequence of Tory neglect. A study of figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that manufacturing’s...
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Lavengro in Spain (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... made "mistakes" in the past by failing to introduce sanctions against apartheid in South Africa. Lady Thatcher opposed international calls to introduce sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa and fought a bitter battle with campaigners in Britain. Writing in today's Observer, Mr Cameron said that Mr Mandela was "one of the greatest men alive". He said: "The mistakes...
