Post #87358
2025-12-22 09:32 UTC
@ReggieHere@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @riggbeck@mastodon.social I maintain that Thatcher used the proceeds of EU membership and North Sea oil to mask that she was starting to concentrate money and power back into the hands of the rich. The start of the counter revolution.
Most of her successors don’t understand that at all: they believe it was her announced principles wot did it.
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@ReggieHere__dup_8894@mastodon.social 2025-12-22 09:48
@Colman@mastodon.ie Agree completely. I guess the other question is whether her ascendency to power was predicated on the fact that after thirty years of social democracy and increasing economic mobility and equality the old capitalist class had reached a point where their very existence depended on halting and unwinding the post-war economic consensus. That capital class had never been so (relatively) poor as they were in the 1970s and another decade might have seen their end. @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @riggbeck@mastodon.social