How could a feeling person not sympathise with the sights Orwell saw. My family is working class, my father was working at 14. Materially we are infinitely better off, but there are real tragedies around us ever day. My experience homelessness in the UK shocked me beyond words
Thatcher did remove large sectors of inefficient nationalised industries. Her mistake was not seeking to diversify the UK economy and develop new industries. The UK still produces innovative products and technologies, that isn't the problem. Where we fail is investing in them.
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Couldn’t she just have removed the inefficient bits, though?
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Yes that would have been the sensible thing to do, but would the times have allowed to act that way. I don't think so. The NUM had already brought down governments.
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