The blame attaches more to her successors who adopted bits of her dogma blindly (which obviously includes the Blair/Brown era). Thatcher undoubtedly made mistakes. Her policies which directly disastr… (View Post)

Did I say "centre of" the housing crisis ? I believe the phrase was "part of the evisceration of local government resources", which is true. So no straw men, please. Incidentally,… (View Post)

That's one of the things that got us here. "Privatisation is good", for all its successes, meant we had decades of monopoly utilities ripping off customers and failing to invest, befor… (View Post)

I'm glad at least one Tory has accepted that. About forty years too late, but well done. (View Post)

There is a fair amount of truth in that. But any amount of framing (and Starmer wouldn't argue with much of that either) doesn't provide solutions. Another example of what has "broken … (View Post)