Perle speaks!
It's hard to describe how bad this article is by Richard Perle, so I'll just let you read it.I think however something is being forgotten about Mrs Thatcher's departure. There is an argument that the party would have had a better 15 years from 1990 - Dave C, if it had not suffered the convulsions caused by her departure, chiefly the sense of betrayal caused by her enforced departure among Thatcherites (a similar argument is made now about Blairites). However the argument tends to contain the implicit assumption that she would have been so badly defeated at the 1992 election that she would have then resigned, thus making her departure voluntary and hence less divisive. This is not a model for Blairites, at least the ones that care about the party's future.
posted by Matthew @ 9/10/2006 07:07:00 PM
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