More Thatcherite than Thatcher: Good Housekeeping

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laresTue 05/04/11 11:30

"In a gaffe which exposes the Thatcherite underpinnings of the government's austerity agenda, Tory minister Greg Barker has boasted that vertiginous cuts are an 'unprecedented piece of good housekeeping in British history' and claimed that 'Getting government off the backs of business is the core mission.'

Speaking to an audience at the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina — from which he presumably thought his remarks would not be reported in the UK — Barker gaffed:

'We are making cuts that Margaret Thatcher, back in the 1980s, could only have dreamed of.'"

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Can we all stop pretending it's because of the recession now?

philc777Tue 05/04/11 12:23

The fact that Clegg has allowed such extreme right wing policiues to be followed with not much in return shows how desperate he was to grab a bit of power (however illusory) at any cost!

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