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| | Blair Defines Himself as a Compassionate Thatcherite |
 | | As well as being a compassionate Thatcherite, Blair is a journalist. | | | As Blair prepares for another reshuffle, the key question should be not what the prime minister is doing to his Blairite ministers, but when Blairite ministers will start to rein in Blair. | | | Some of Blair’s “Blairite” ministers are not thrilled with policy making on the basis of reactionary headlines and Thatcherite instincts. |
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http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=48845&d=24&m=7&y=2004&pix=opinion.jpg&category=Opinion
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| | Edinburgh Evening News - Business - Corporate giant and Thatcherite Lord Hanson dies |
| | The announcement was hailed as the end of an era characterised by Thatcherite excess and Lord Hanson retired the following year. | | | Conservative Party leader, Michael Howard, said: "James Hanson will be remembered as one of the great British industrialists of recent times, who played a leading role in the economic regeneration of Britain. | | | THE ultimate 80s businessman and arch Thatcherite Lord Hanson has died from cancer. |
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| | Socialism Today - Who is Iain Duncan Smith? |
| | One former senior Tory minister (anonymously) commented: "This is the first time the guttersnipe tendency has taken control of a major British party". | | | Yet the result announced a day late on 13 September - a decisive victory for the party's Thatcherite rightwing - will have far-reaching effects on British politics, argues LYNN WALSH. | | | THE BALLOT OF Conservative Party members resulted in a decisive victory for the right-wing, Thatcherite Iain Duncan Smith (aka IDS) over the 'One Nation', 'liberal' Kenneth Clarke. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Loose talk costs political life of colourful Tory |
| | John Major, William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith would never have possessed the strength to sack a frontbencher for delivering a free market speech to a group whose president is Lady Thatcher. | | | Whether the downfall of Mr Flight marks the decisive moment of the 2005 election will be known only when the polls close. | | | Once the election is out of the way "you can actually get on with what needs to be done," he told his audience. |
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,9061,1445937,00.html
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| | Thatcherism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 2001 Peter Mandelson, a member of parliament belonging to the British Labour Party closely associated with Tony Blair, famously declared that "we are all Thatcherites now". | | | Margaret Thatcher labelled supporters of her beliefs (or Thatcherites) as 'drys', as opposed to the 'wets' (often One Nation conservatives) who opposed her policies. | | | Nonetheless, many people continue to use the word "Thatcherism" as a term of abuse. |
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| | BrothersJudd Blog: FINISHING HIS THATCHERITE LEGACY (via Robert Schwartz): |
| | French in disarray as they admit EU treaty vote is lost (Charles Bremner in Paris and Philip Webster, 5/26/05, Times of London) | | | BrothersJudd Blog: FINISHING HIS THATCHERITE LEGACY (via Robert Schwartz): | | | Posted by: Robert Schwartz at May 26, 2005 06:15 PM |
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| | Society All Thatcherite. Whose fault is that? |
| | But then we have this on the authority of Lord Lawson, Chancellor for six of the 11 Thatcher years: 'With no ideas of his own, only "visions", he [Blair] was obliged to steal those of others. | | | I voted for somebody to sort out the Thatcherite mess.' Another (from a one-man focus group) was: 'They became mesmerised by focus groups. | | | One answer from the hills was: 'I didn't vote for stability in 1997. |
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| | MEPs to quit over Blair's 'Thatcherite tendencies' |
| | Mr Kerr accused Mr Blair of being "closer to a Thatcherite than a social democrat". | | | He said: "I think it was clear early on that Mr Blair had a very different project in mind from John Smith, and wanted to realign British politics towards the centre right, which is what he is doing. | | | TONY Blair was accused of being "closer to a Thatcherite than a social democrat" by two Euro-MPs who plan to quit and stand as independent Labour candidates. |
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| | A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --D-- |
| | The integrationist Commission and Court of Justice are the arbiters of the level at which decisions are to be taken, and the doctrine of the acquis communautaire rules out any repatriation of powers from the centre to the nation states. | | | The democratic deficit therefore raises in acute form the problem of the EU's inability to win the affections of the people. | | | Indeed, if subsidiarity were given genuine significance it would mean a reversion towards the Gaullist and Thatcherite vision of a Europe of Nations - a vision which the EU has consistently rejected. |
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| | Thatcherite medicine for California |
| | Davis and the California voters who have chosen him twice deserve each other, unless and until the voters choose Thatcherite medicine. | | | But if Davis is recalled he probably will be replaced by a governor who received substantially fewer votes than were cast against the recall. | | | He has her determination to revive what she called "the vigorous virtues" -- entrepreneurship, deferral of gratification, individual initiative, personal responsibility in making appetites conform to resources. |
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| | Sinn Féin: PDs show true Thatcherite colours on threat over transport privatisation |
| | Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghin Ó Caoláin has described as "Thatcherite" the statement of Progressive Democrat leader Mary Harney that if transport privatisation was not pushed through, there would be a threat to the Fianna Fáil/PD coalition. | | | "It is a truly Thatcherite party that gives priority to the plundering of public services over the interests of public hospital patients who were promised a permanent end to hospital waiting lists this year and 200,000 extra medical cards. | | | She would threaten to pull out of Government if her party's commitment to privatised public transport is not fulfilled, yet she is content to see the Government's key commitments on health broken left, right and centre. |
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| | principles - Margaret Thatcher as per Prof. Minford. |
| | Thatcherite principles as mentioned by Patrick Minford in the Daily Telegraph back page 17jun2002 | | | Note: Margeret Thatcher lists some at the end of each chapter in her book Statecraft. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Special Reports Line of Beauty takes the Booker |
| | The chairman of judges, the former arts minister Chris Smith, said: "This was an incredibly difficult and close decision. | | | Mitchell's imaginative tour of the world and the centuries was evens favourite with Ladbroke's and 5:4 with William Hill. | | | It has resulted in a winning novel that is exciting, brilliantly written and gets deep under the skin of the Thatcherite 80s. |
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| | The New York Times > Books > Tale of Gay Life in Britain Wins a Top Literary Prize |
| | Smith, a member of Parliament, said the winning book's focus on gay life had not figured in the judges' discussions as they considered it for the prize. | | | Chris Smith, the chairman of the judges' panel this year, said the choice of a winner had been difficult and the voting close. | | | ONDON, Oct. 19 - "The Line of Beauty," Alan Hollinghurst's lavish novel about a young gay man negotiating the confusions, delights and horrors of life in Thatcherite Britain in the mid-1980's, won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday night, defeating David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas," which had been widely considered the favorite to win. |
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| | Liberal Democrats : TOP-UP FEES BILL IS THATCHERITE POLICY - WILLIS |
| | Liberal Democrats : TOP-UP FEES BILL IS THATCHERITE POLICY - WILLIS | | | Phil Willis MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Secretary, has today accused Labour MP of supporting a Thatcherite policy. | | | "Tonight we will see Labour MPs voting for a Thatcherite policy. |
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| | Margaret Thatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Supporters of Margaret Thatcher assert that Thatcherite policies were responsible for this. | | | She is honorary president of the Bruges Group, which takes its name from her 1988 speech at Bruges, where she was first openly hostile to developments in the European Union. | | | She remains involved with various Thatcherite groups, including being president of the Conservative Way Forward group, which held a dinner at the Savoy Hotel in honour of the 25th Anniversary of her election. |
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| | The Last Amazon: Thatcherite Canadian |
| | We bought into the Harris Commonsense Revolution but in the end we were betrayed by the big C government of Ernie Eves and his cronies. | | | Neoconservatives in the United States, at least as my understanding goes, are quite hawkish, to the point where I actually refuse to accept some of their views. | | | But here’s the rub, I may have found my mantle but most of the Thatcherite Ontarians have not had that Eureka moment. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Commission's Thatcherite chairman is no stranger to controversy |
| | He was a Thatcherite appointee to the Treasury, where he worked for almost 20 years. | | | Lord Burns, 56, the former Treasury mandarin who became chairman of the National Lottery Commission in October, is well used to controversy. | | | When the chancellor, Gordon Brown, took control in 1997, he was "retired" a year later with a peerage. |
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| | America's Debate -> Is GW Bush the first Thatcherite US President? |
| | Is GW Bush the first Thatcherite US President? | | | Particularly during her first two terms, which used the policies that I see parallels with in the Bush II administration. | | | The addition of a new prescription drug benefit to the already struggling Medicare program may be the next policy move to enlarge the distance between libertarians and Bush Republicans into a yawning chasm. |
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| | WarrenEvans.net |
| | That continuing ambivalence explains Blair's failure to convince the NHS trade unions of his bona fides - he is still suspected of harbouring Thatcherite aspirations, in spite of all his "social-ist" protestations. | | | Looking back, we will see 2001 as the year in which the Thatcherite Settlement finally unravelled. | | | Regulators, the officials designated by Thatcher as the fig-leaves of privatisation, are manifest failures - like toothless chaperons, they have been given impossible functions to perform, with corporate laws biased systematically against them. |
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| | BBC NEWS VOTE2001 Thatcherite Letwin goes to ground |
| | He has described himself as "a radical Thatcherite" and a devout admirer of the former prime minister. | | | The controversy may embarrass Mr Hague during a tense election campaign but - as a member of the radical wing of the Tory party - promoting tax cuts would be a natural instinct for Mr Letwin. | | | He has a strong Thatcherite background and has risen quickly up the ranks. |
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| | AcademicDB - What impact did the Thatcherite Governments have on active citizenship in Britain? |
| | Home: Politics: General Theory: What impact did the Thatcherite Governments have on active citizenship in Britain | | | Other Thatcherite policies which affected active citizenship were the privatisation of several previously publicly owned industries such British Telecom, British Gas, British Petroleum, Rover (British Leyland), British Rail and the water and electricity utilities. | | | AcademicDB - What impact did the Thatcherite Governments have on active citizenship in Britain? |
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http://www.academicdb.com/impact_did_thatcherite_governments_have_on_active_7470
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| | The Hindu : Labour & the Thatcherite ''legacy'' |
| | PERHAPS NOTHING reflects more sharply the confused state of British politics today than the hype over the Thatcherite legacy which, one is led to believe, remains at the heart of modern Britain with its ``new'' work ethic, individual enterprise, less government and more personal freedoms. | | | This is the sense of much of what has been said and written to commemorate Mrs. | | | Section : Opinion Previous : Resolving the Narmada conflict Next : Rethinking on reforms |
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| | Guardian Barroso seeks to calm fears of a Thatcherite laissez-faire Europe |
| | With a mood of crisis enveloping his government, and a crunch regional election coming up in North Rhein-Westphalia in May, the chancellor is under intense pressure to do something to create more jobs. | | | On the other side is Britain and the new EU member states in central and eastern Europe who want to reform what they regard as Europe's hidebound economy. | | | On one side stand the two main founding members of the EU, France and Germany, whose political forefathers would turn in their graves if the Treaty of Rome led to a Thatcherite laissez-faire Europe. |
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| | "Britain Reverses AIDS Policy" |
| | The state of the art may have changed since the publication date. | | | British Prime Minister John Major has reversed a Thatcherite policy and decided to compensate hemophiliacs infected with HIV through blood received from the National Health Service. |
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| | Green Party - Real Progress |
| | John Spottiswoode is a former member of Green Party Executive. | | | Published and promoted by Matt Wootton for The Green Party, both at 1a Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ. | | | Free eye tests have been abolished and the general opticians are usually private companies on the High Streets. |
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| | City Guide for London in England - History - Thatcherite London |
| | Stocks and shares headed into the stratosphere, and shortly after, they inevitably crashed, ushering in a recession that dragged on for the best part of the next ten years. | | | In 1979, Margaret Thatcher won the general election for the Conservative Party, and the country and the capital would never be quite the same again. | | | City Guide - Thatcherite London in London, England |
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| | The Independent (London, England) : Michael Howard's opportunism proves that the Tories are back in the game; The ... |
| | Only two individuals could have stopped the Prime Minister from supporting President George Bush, the leader of the Conservative Party and Rupert Murdoch. | | | Read 'The Independent (London, England): Michael Howard's opportunism proves that the Tories are back in the game; The Conservatives have never been sure whether to portray Mr Blair as a Thatcherite or a left-wing revolutionary.(Comment)' with a FREE Trial for instant access » | | | Start / T / The Independent (London, England) / May 25, 2004 / Michael Howard's opportunism proves that the Tories are back in the game; The Conservatives have never been sure whether to portray Mr Blair as a That |
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http://static.highbeam.com/t/theindependentlondonengland/may252004/michaelhowardsopportunismprovesthatthetoriesarebac/index.html
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| | The limits of the 'Third Way' |
| | This itself represents an ideological departure from nationalist parochialism and from Thatcherite remodelling of society at the expense of the underprivileged. | | | New Labour has also undertaken a far bolder programme of decentralisation and devolution than the Tories could even countenance: including independent Assemblies for Scotland and Wales, an elected London Mayor and a non-hereditary House of Lords. | | | But it speaks of modernising politics, moderating conservative nationalism, opening up to Europe, and making Britain a "fair and decent" society in which everyone gets a "chance in life". |
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| | Thatcherite Economics - a worthwhile legacy? |
| | This article will look at some of the main features of Thatcherite economic policy 25 years on. | | | At the heart of Thatcherite economics were the following: | | | The Thatcherite impact of demand management on long run equilibrium |
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| | Centre for Entrepreneurship |
| | This set of beliefs and actions included an encouragement of hard work, thrift, self-responsibility, self employment, as well as legislating for the support of small firms, privatisation, free markets and a strong - but minimal - central state. | | | During the 1980s, the government of Britain, led by Margaret Thatcher, promoted a political and economic ideology known in the demotic as the Thatcherite Enterprise Culture. | | | Critics of Enterprise Theology are found to be much more consistent with mainstream Christian Theology. |
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| | Hit and Run |
| | Q--At the last Thatcherite in Europe, you cannot be in favor of the political unification of Europe you deem to be inevitable. | | | A--I am a great admirer of Margaret Thatcher, but my views on the need to maintain the nation state as a building bloc for European unification are not related to hers. |
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| | A NEW RULING CLASS PARTY? |
| | The latter meant that Margaret Thatcher and many of her supporters in the Tory Party were ambivalent or downright hostile to the European Union. | | | Political commentators questioned whether Labour would ever again be elected to government. | | | New Right politics in its Thatcherite form embodied an uneasy combination of neo-liberal economic and social policies with a defence of "traditional values" including nationalism. |
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| | The Greatest Jeneration - Czechs elect EU critic--Good one! |
| | Mr Klaus is an ardent Thatcherite monetarist who led the effort to break up Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then presided over the economic transformation of the Czech Republic through the 1990s. | | | The Czech Republic's forthcoming membership of the European Union, and the stability of its government, were cast into uncertainty last night when Vaclav Klaus, a Thatcherite and Eurosceptic, snatched the presidency by the narrowest of margins. | | | That, combined with the "Their sky is falling in Prague!" cynicism that permeates this story and their perpetual Loony Left bias leads me to believe that the Czechs have found themselves a good man on the third try. |
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| | spiked-politics Article German election: <i>Was ist das</i>? |
| | New Statesman said a revolution was brewing in Germany, and that time was up for 'the 1968 generation of Gerhard Schroeder'; Germans were ready to be led by their 'improbable heroine' Merkel, who 'might just succeed where Schroeder has manifestly failed' (2). | | | Observer on 4 September, Jason Burke wrote: 'As voters yearn for the Cold War certainties and economic power
Angela Merkel is rallying former communists with hardline Thatcherite policies.' That piece also quoted Holger Schaefer of the Cologne Institute for Economic Studies, who said Merkel provided a 'chance to step forward. | | | Observer have gone from telling us that Germans were rallying behind 'hardline Thatcherite policies' to claiming that Germans have voted in protest against right-wing free marketeers. |
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| | GOVERNMENT: Democracy needs a professional public service - 26 July 2003 |
| | Of course, the stated reasons made no sense when one considers that the policies the incoming Labor government had chosen were exactly those in favour with Thatcherite admirers in the Liberal Party. | | | The Thatcherite policies spread quickly throughout the English speaking developed world, spurred on by a revival of neo-classical economics, which had its resurgence in British academic circles after World War II. | | | Much less understandable was that the incoming Australian Labor Party, in 1983, accepted - more or less without qualification - the Thatcherite policies. |
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| | IngentaConnect Post-Thatcherite Urban Planning and Politics: a Major Change? |
| | This paper examines statutory planning during the Major years with reference to the ideological components of Thatcherism. | | | Questions emerge on whether Thatcherite ideology is continuing in the 1990s within the realm of planning and environment, of whether a watered down version of New Right policies are being implemented, or whether central government policies towards planning over the last six years marked a change in ideological direction. | | | The paper concludes by finding that although elements of Thatcherite ideology are continuing, there have been initiatives that move away from the primacy of the market. |
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| | Conservatives seek return to Thatcherite principles |
| | Dr Liam Fox, the party chairman, will tonight set out to reclaim the political philosophy that led to limits on the power of trade unions, greater home-ownership and privatisations. | | | Thatcherite principles of enterprise, competition, low taxation and free markets will be championed by Michael Howard to regain policy ground the Tories believe they have surrendered to Labour. |
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| | BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews |
| | The Thatcherite revolution began, or at least encompassed the sale of council homes, something that you hugely approve of, indeed you were in at the birth of that particular policy. | | | Of course I crusade to deal with that, and I think the objectives I have, a more prosperous Wales, a Wales with more choice and success, would go way across the political spectrum, way beyond by own party and would be shared as an aspiration by those in many other parties. | | | REDWOOD: Well it's not a Thatcherite Revolution, it is a set of common policies for the Conservative Party in the 1990s where we've placed a different agenda from that of the eighties. |
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| | Making it big: bitch politics and writing in public |
| | I am a Thatcherite bitch, I hear, which is middle-class liberal shorthand for a working class girl who has made it... | | | Making it big: bitch politics and writing in public | | | It is her public prose, as much as her iconic status within cultural studies, that is of interest to my analysis. |
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| | Thatcherite plan to destroy National Dock Labour Scheme |
| | The following speech by the former director of Britain’s National Association of Port Employers, Nicholas Finney OBE, was obtained by the Liverpool dockers during their recent tour of Australia. | | | If you were here, it would be an interesting debate, because I think what has happened in Britain is resoundingly good news for the country and couldn’t have been achieved without the Thatcher government’s determination to remove Trade Union Monopoly power. | | | Thatcherite plan to destroy National Dock Labour Scheme |
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| | AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS |
| | Because this is not only true, but the main reason a significant number of rich people vote for her in the first place, it was odd to see her reject it. | | | Instead of Dick Spring suggesting to Mary Harney that the PD's knee-jerk unionism and naked hatred of Northern nationalists would serve only to undermine the peace process, he just agreed with her that bipartisanship was the way forward in Leinster House. | | | But now Spring went on the attack, accusing Mary Harney of being a crazed Thatcherite axe-vixen determined to wreck the public service. |
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| | New Statesman - NS Essay - 'The myth of the chattering classes was the product of a Thatcherite populism that aimed to ... |
| | The myth of the chattering classes was the product of a Thatcherite populism that aimed to short-circuit traditional elites, speaking directly to "ordinary people" - the lower middle-class, suburban folk who were now seen as the key swing voters in elections. | | | They were left-leaning teachers, social workers and council officers who bought houses in up-and-coming areas but were fearful of the working class, "tearing down the lace curtains of a poor neighbourhood to make way for the macrame of Drabbitat". | | | Drabbies were "deliberate and voluntary proles" who dressed shabbily and were consumed with indignation about the Thatcherite "cuts". |
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| | BBC NEWS Business What do we owe to Thatcherite economics? |
| | Investment in education, for example, has lagged in Britain - something Professor Gamble attributes to Thatcherite fear of state planning. | | | And income taxes, which were confiscatory - a top rate of 83% - in the late 1970s, have come down and stayed down. | | | Professor Gamble questions whether Thatcherite deregulation may be behind Britain's feeble record on productivity: growth here slowed during the 1990s, a sharp contrast with runaway improvements in supposedly equivalent economies such as the US. |
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| | toryleadership: Blogging for David Davis |
| | The reason the Conservative Party have lost the last three elections is because far too many in the party still think that the Thatcherite solutions of yesteryear are the self same solutions for the new century we now live in. | | | What the new leader must do is establish a conservative ideology which combines Thatcherite economics with Disraelite social policy and support for institutions like marriage. | | | The only person I have heard who is speaking the sort of language that will lead the party back to power is David Cameron. |
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