Showing posts with label Maggie Thatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maggie Thatcher. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 January 2012

Sounds like direct democracy to me...........


"The peace that comes from.......being able to run your own lives, spend your own money and make your own choices........"

 If only she had taken those extra steps..........

Sunday, 27 November 2011

Even the 'Maggietollah' didn't understand 'democracy'

An article in the Daily Telegraph yesterday by that doyen of British journalism, Charles Moore illustrated that she too actually believed in 'central control' - aka, politicians know best.

Charles Moore writes:
"The idea behind the drama is the belief, her belief, that the people without much power – the “workers not the shirkers”, small-businessmen, housewives (to use a word deployed at that time without embarrassment) – can do great things if only you let them." (Emphasis mine)
If only you let them? If only someone who, in my earlier state of ignorance, I admired, had seen fit to realise that there is a better way..........