Boris Johnson
Has he got any Shadow Cabinet role? I hope not, for he is truly awful. Today's piece in the Telegraph is simply too stupid to take seriously.For instance:
Most social and economic historians would agree that the Thatcherian revolution of the 1980s was a liberating event for millions of people in the old working classes, who not only bought their own houses but also shares, and a stake in Britain's economic growth.
Thatcherian? Anyway this an an absurdly narrow and over simplified view of the decade, and certainly not one I believe most social and economic historians would agree on. Was class mobility higher in the 1980s than the 1970s? Johnson's been reading too much of his own party's propaganda again.
Part of Johnson's problem is he still believes his own mistakes. This passage in particular:
Above all, they [Labour] tax them [the working-class] an exorbitant proportion of their incomes
Now it is probably true that the poorest people in this country pay too much tax. But Johnson is basing his view on this on his own 'research', which was hopelessly wrong .
posted by Matthew @ 12/08/2005 12:11:00 PM
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