Archive for the ‘Blame Thatcher’ Category

Yuppies, juppies, guppies and Thatcher

I keep seeing examples of Thatcher Derangement Syndrome, they’re so common that it’s hardly worth linking to make the point. Here’s one from Clive Aslet that I saw on Tim’s blog:
It is partly the rise of selfish individualism, at the expense of the shared values of restraint. The Sixties had [...]

Did you really mean that?

Here’s a great line from a piece in the Guardian about the BNP’s campaign in Barking and Dagenham:
And there [Nick Griffin] is, like a Bond villain relocated to the set of the Royle Family
But here’s a very strange paragraph:
Margaret Thatcher’s Right To Buy scheme changed things for ever, though only once former tenants sold up [...]