tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post7651939884953732419..comments2023-08-16T12:07:22.995+00:00Comments on The Daily (Maybe): Are we going back to the eighties?Jim Jeppshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-84241294260645068802010-05-17T15:21:12.916+00:002010-05-17T15:21:12.916+00:00I agree Simon - although I think part of it was th...I agree Simon - although I think part of it was the mean spiritedness of the government.<br /><br />For a part of the decade I was on the dole and well remember the utterly vile treatment I received in that period.<br /><br />We certainly will be facing years of cuts now... and union bashing - our key task now, I think, is to get ready for that onslaught.Jim Jeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-72894723138588622502010-05-17T12:35:42.266+00:002010-05-17T12:35:42.266+00:00When people shudder at Thatcher, they are remember...When people shudder at Thatcher, they are remembering the cuts, linked with her war on the unions. Both were attacks on the relatively poor. Now that the Tories are talking again about massive cuts, it is inevitable that people should recall Thatcher, rather than any other Tory administration.<br /><br />What is dispiriting now is that all three main parties are saying the same thing. We are all Tories now, it would seem. How can anyone effectively resist the cuts, with so few voices in parliament speaking against them?<br /><br />The chumminess of the Lib-Con coalition has been possible because the parties' policies are so close to each other in so many ways - as the Greens have been saying for years. But the realisation that this confluence means their party can now joyfully join with the Tories in a neo-Thatcherite slash bonanza is still deeply embarrassing to many left-leaning LibDem members.Simon Groverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03281860427374889846noreply@blogger.com