Tag: Thatcher

Rachel Reeves and the Thatcher dilemma

RACHEL Reeves, Labour’s shadow chancellor, has described today’s Britain as reminiscent of 1979.  For younger readers, in 1979 the UK was broke, inflation was rampant, nationalised industries were on strike, militant unions weren’t collecting rubbish or burying the dead, there was no investment and there were three million unemployed. The Labour Prime Minister was James Callaghan, […]

The German politician with the strength of Margaret Thatcher

ON MONDAY, in Committee Room Ten at the House of Commons, we were treated to hearing the remarkable German MEP, Christine Anderson. She was the guest of Andrew Bridgen on an international panel he had drawn together to discuss the World Health Organization power grab and how to save our sovereignty.  I had high expectations of this quite unusual politician who […]