Given away by Thatcher
I was chatting with my 15 year old daughter the other day while watching the news and she was asking questions like most kids of that age.
She asked, if we are the fifth richest country on the planet then why do we have so many homeless people and also what’s with all the poverty and the need for foodbanks.
I had a hard job convincing her that everything she mentioned was ideologically driven, and a political choice by this Tory government.
She asked why is this Tory government “so cruel” towards its citizens, so I tried to explain to her how it all goes back to 1979 and the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
I said in 1979 Margaret Thatcher was elected to power on the back of a Saatchi advertising poster that had a line of people pictured with the headline "Labour isn't working”.
There were around one million unemployed at the time, it was a catchy message and it worked, along with fake patriotism.
In 1979 Great Britain had every right to be called Great Britain.
We owned British Rail, British Gas, British Electric, The Royal Mail, British Leyland, The Royal Mail, British Water, Rolls Royce, British Steel and British Telecom along with the award-winning British shipyards.
Then Thatcher’s Tory government gave them away for a song and then set about destroying all industry.
She quadrupled the dole queue, to over four million, she deregulated the farming industry and she deregulated the banks, that has, and still is, causing misery to millions, to this day.
In 1979 Britain was sitting on a revenue bonanza from North Sea oil, we had a national debt of £80billion, and owned all of our utilities, transport,
infrastructure and millions of social homes.
Fast forward to 2020 Great Briton has a £2trillionplus national debt and virtually no assets.
Neoliberilism is still going strong and it has and still is destroying so many lives.
“In 1979 Great Britain had every right to be called Great Britain.”
Ged Taylor, Barnes.