Remember in Orwell’s 1984, the proles had their ‘prole packs’ of porn
and apart from the informers, they could not give a f*ck
In my view, or from what I see, the British have become cynical and personally egocentric
Having said that my Grandmother regaled me with stories about how she got round rationing in WWII - in WWI she had three hungry kids on her hands.
Bytegeist, that was really good stuff on Thatcher
her views on divorce were because she was Dennis’ second go
the milk stuff is interesting, school milk in say 1970 was horrible, it was warm
but it was introduced for a good reason, a form of mass medication
(I have vague memories of flavoured cod liver oil and mass vaxination)
I was born in 1956, I voted for Thatch in 1979, to me there was no /sensible/ alternative.
She sold out to the City (a parasititic institution) but she had no experience of industry.
Oddly I reckon that there is a certain amount of respect lurking out there for people who appear to be ‘superior’
a kind of yearning for authority
Insecurity is the worst thing for ‘society’, which despite Thatch’s stupid statement, is a form of molecular structure.
Clarification: By “the City,” I presume you mean not London as a whole, but the financial and securities markets headquartered in the old City of London – the British equivalent of what we would call “Wall Street.” How exactly did Thatcher sell it out?
Perhaps that comes of having a republican form of government. In the UK, you can reserve all your reverence and deference for the monarchy while saying whatever shit you like about the queen’s loyal ministers who actually run things. Here, there’s no distinction.
Perhaps FRDE subscribes to the idea that the Thatcher government’s privatisation programme, the selling off of state-run businesses such as British Steel and British Airways, amounted to handing over valuable national assets to mere capitalists (“the City”, as you correctly surmise), at a knock-down price? “Selling off the family silver”, as opponents had it at the time. Or maybe it’s a more general swipe at her regime’s generally pro-business attitude.
Thatcher probably had more experience of industry than most political high-fliers, having attained a degree in Chemistry and worked as a research chemist for an ice cream maker. Most of them are party workers or lawyers or journalists before ascending the greasy pole.