THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Steven Tucker) - Blame Blair, not Thatcher, for British Decline
Prime Minister Andy Burnham can’t do that—because it would mean blaming himself. The post Blame Blair, not Thatcher, for British Decline appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Blame Blair, not Thatcher, for British Decline Prime Minister Andy Burnham can’t do that—because it would mean blaming himself. TakiMag Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Just before becoming Britain’s prime minister in July, Andy Burnham revealed his father has late-stage dementia. Politically speaking, so does much of the Labour political class, including Burnham: its impressions of the 1970s and its lessons are foggy. In northwest England , whence Burnham hails, political dementia is a transmissible disease, particularly regarding the legacy of the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.…Open