Thatcher: the legacy for the right

Anyone want to know he side of Lady T the news isn’t touching? Even the leftist news aren’t touching this angle but mind you, they’ve stood to benefit from her time in office.

Rust in Peace: Death of the Iron Lady
Colin Liddell
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The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Sean Gabb
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Margaret Thatcher and the Degradation of “Freedom” in Right-Wing Discourse
Kevin Carson
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A new dawn over Britain?

First Greece then Great Britain? How far will we be pushed before they feel the backlash.

Science: Britons Really Do Hate Immigrants
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“Now, a new study by the British Sociological Association scientifically validates that Britons, in fact, are among the most xenophobic people in Europe – second only to Greeks. Rating their perception of immigration on a scale of 0-10, Britons from the governing Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition reported averages of 4.4 (for Conservatives) and 5.9 (for Lib Dems). Voters supporting the opposition Labour Party rated immigrants at a 4.9.”

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The Eagle beyond the Donkey and the Elephant

American politics is repulsive.

If you were to look at social issues in America, one side is accidentally-on-purpose directed to direct protests onto ludicrous grounds. Look at the way anti-gun campaigners make a fuss over the legality or availability of extreme firearms that aren’t used in crime. Or think how irrelevant partial birth abortion and stem cell research are to the real abortion debate.

If leftists thought about it properly abortion (and its husband, immigration which goes hand in hand with it) is anti-socialist because its used against less affluent communities for the good of big business. Likewise imagine if gun owners were actively deployed against the ‘one percent’, instead of OWS being composed as it was of the smelly hippies, attention seeking queers and 20th century has-beens who hijacked the movement.

Want worker’s rights? Think right wing, become a socialist.

A national socialist…

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