Re: Maths
UK government in the 60s and 70s was a consensus government that still bore the scars of the 1930s which the post-war economic model sought to prevent returning. It may have been labelled as socialist, but it only bore a passing resemblance to true socialist principles.
I still remember Geoffrey Howe's speech about how inner-city crime was a result of the tower blocks which he called "monuments to socialist planning". The tower blocks were the state's humanitarian response to moving people en masse from the unfit for human habitation slums that poverty drove them to.
Is it time for someone to say the tower blocks now springing up all over the nation are "monuments to capitalist planning" ?
We can already see the swelling echoes of the late 70s - in those days it was immigrants taking jobs that was the rallying cry of the NF, and today it's immigrants taking houses. Thatcher made promises and stole those "far-right" votes back in 1979. Cameron tried to pull off the same trick in 2015, with the 2016 Brexit referendum.
I fear we are heading for a repeat of 1979, but where's the sainted leader this time?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
