Quote: Pingl @ April 26 2013, 11:13 AM BSTThe thing about Thatcher was she was totally a product of her background, she really wanted a self sufficient country of small entrepreneurs, not the greed laden outcome she got. She was really a free market liberal, that said, certain things were still unthinkable to her. She did not totally free up the markets and never intended to. She thought the idea of rail privatisation was unworkable, how right she was. However she was responsible for the end of the post war consensus and the start of a new consensus. Basically everyone in power since Thatcher has been a Thatcherite, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron.
There was a ray of light in 1945 with the New Jerusalem, unfortunately it could not be achieved on many levels, reality conspired against ideals, the country being broke after the war, dismantling a huge Empire, the winter of 1948 etc etc. I don't know if basic human rights enshrined self centerdness. Harold Wilson's decimation of old and well established communities and imprisonment of said communities in dehumanising Tower Blocks certainly didn't help society cohesion. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
What a sWine no greater opPression than indoor plumbing
Quote: Nogget @ April 26 2013, 3:14 PM BSTA supermarket chain has been forced to withdraw bags of nuts - for failing to declare they may contain peanuts.
Peanuts aren't actually nuts they're a legume
