Simon Heffer
In the Telegraph, Simon Heffer shows his outstanding knowledge of British history by saying:Big mistake, Ollie. We would, I am sure, and not just at this time of goodwill to all persons, like to see the gap narrowed between rich and poor.
Yet there is more than one way of doing this. In the prosperous, liberal society that we should aspire to be, the rich get richer and the poor get richer, too, as the wealth of the most successful trickles down through society.
This is rather what happened in the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher transformed our country from a banana republic to an economic powerhouse.
So Heffer, a) wants to see the gap between rich and poor narrowed, and b) believes that this happened in the 1980s. How ill-informed is he?
posted by Matthew @ 12/29/2005 12:51:00 PM
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