Richard Leonard: In the 1980s manufacturing was butchered, factory after factory closed, privatisation was let rip, unemployment rocketed, profits boomed, the wage share fell, the rich got richer, and inequality soared. No rewriting of history. Thatcher didn’t renew the economy, she broke it.
In the 1980s manufacturing was butchered, factory after factory closed, privatisation was let rip, unemployment rocketed, profits boomed, the wage share fell, the rich got richer, and inequality soared.
No rewriting of history.
Thatcher didn't renew the economy, she broke it.
— Richard Leonard (@LabourRichard) March 19, 2024
by bottish
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He was a pretty ineffectual leader for the branch office but he isn’t the worst. Especially when you compare to what Labour have become now with their lunge to the right.
The man’s not wrong.
Doesn’t bode well for the UK that the shadow chancellor is cosplaying Thatcher.