David Gustave: I’m a child of Thatcher and still scarred
David Gustave, an employee of Kids Company, a south London charity dealing with vulnerable inner-city children, spoke exclusively to Left Foot Forward about why he was at Labour conference: “I was here...
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Tory minister: We’re making cuts Thatcher “could only have dreamt of”
Climate change minister Greg Barker has said the government is making cuts that “Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s could only have dreamt of”. He made the comments on a visit to the Darla Moore School of...
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Enterprise Zones are the dusting down of a failed Thatcherite policy
Tony Burke is the Assistant General Secretary of Unite With the economy running on empty and no Plan A or Plan B from Cameron, Osborne and Cable, the government have turned the clock back to the 1980s...
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Thatcher was every bit as bad as we remember
In the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate, Meryl Streep plays a megalomaniac who leaves a trail of human destruction and misery behind her in her bid to secure political power on behalf of shadowy...
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Thatcher’s corrosive legacy: The UK’s abandoned inner cities
By Gavin Knight It was revealed today that Margaret Thatcher was advised to abandon Liverpool to “managed decline” by her chancellor, Geoffrey Howe, in the wake of the Toxteth riots of 1981. In his...
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Now we know: Thatcher shut down debate on Trident. Will the coalition follow...
Kate Hudson is the general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Strange to find a retrospective ally in Thatcher’s defence secretary John Nott. Yet that is what the 1981 cabinet papers,...
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Pensions – an unfinished revolution
Nigel Stanley is head of campaigns at the TUC Before Mrs Thatcher destroyed Britain’s post-war pension consensus, Beveridge had given us a decent state pension that kept up with earnings, and Barbara...
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Is David Cameron our prime minister, or just a travelling arms merchant?
James Elliott is a journalist who writes for the Huffington Post This weekend a coterie of British businessmen including the arms dealer Rolls-Royce were jetted around Kazakhstan on board the private...
View ArticleComment: Blairism is no solution to identity crisis
The ‘Blairites’ are certainly right about Labour’s so-called 35 per cent strategy. How one envies the SNP, for whom every Scottish voter is a target voter. Whatever happened to ‘One Nation Labour’?...
View ArticleComment: The Tories have now gone further than Thatcher – to the extremes of...
In front of around 8,000 people at Manchester Cathedral on Monday night, at the People’s Post rally called by the CWU, I described our current government as an extremist government, one that wants to...
View ArticleBlairism is dead and gone – the left should stop talking about it
2016 may well be remembered as the year Blairism died. First, there was the Chilcot report. That excruciating post-mortem found that the decision to go to war was unfounded, taken in haste and of...
View ArticleTories are making Britain great again – for Thatcherite inequality
They came in promising to clean up Labour’s economic mess with a cocktail of public spending cuts and gifts for society’s better off. Now Thatcherite policies are producing Thatcherite results....
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Neoliberalism has failed to boost productivity. Social democracy has a better...
Chris Edwards says the privatizations started by Thatcher ‘transformed the British economy’ and boosted productivity. This raises an under-appreciated paradox. The thing is that privatization isn’t...
View ArticlePublic institutions are being felled – now can we accept that privatisation...
Image: Natalie Bennett The long-running saga of the felling of Sheffield trees by a private company took a new turn last week, with the final outstanding charges dropped against the total of 14 people...
View ArticleNo Telegraph, the rich aren’t paying more tax than in the 1970s
‘Rich pay more tax than they did in the 1970s, study finds’, delares a story on the front of today’s Daily Telegraph. The ‘study’ consists of analysis of HMRC data by, er, the Telegraph, and begins...
View ArticleRight-to-buy has stoked the housing crisis – but the Tories want to roll it...
Four in ten former council homes sold under right-to-buy are now being rented out by private landlords – at double the price of council rents, new research shows. 40 per cent of housing stock sold to...
View Article40 years since her election, Margaret Thatcher still casts a long shadow over...
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Tories. The importance of the 1979 general election as a pivotal point in British politics is being acknowledged by...
View ArticleWhat does the ‘free market’ really mean?
A photographer recently captured something on the floor of Johnson’s car: Britannia Unchained, a publication co-authored in 2012 by five members of the party’s Thatcherite-leaning Free Enterprise...
View ArticlePatriotism and ‘you’ll never walk alone’– a Tory member on what the Left must...
It has been almost a decade of Tory rule. We have been through cuts to government services, major changes to the benefits system and an increase in the number of food banks. And now, after all this...
View ArticleUK misses out on EU funds for ‘just transition’ away from coal
The EU is devoting €100bn to measures to promote a ‘Just Transition’, much of which will be spent on helping regional economies previously reliant on coal production. The European Commission said the...
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