When Ed Miliband discovered William Hague's comment to a US embassy official, buried within the latest Wikileaks material, that he, Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne were "children of Thatcher" the Labour leader must have thought he had struck gold.
Mr Cameron has spent a lot of time and energy trying to prove that he is not one of Thatcher's children, now here was his trusted Number Two, the foreign secretary, apparently letting the cat out of the bag.
But the prime minister was able to turn the jibe back on Mr Miliband simply by invoking the name of Mr Miliband's old boss at the Treasury and Number 10. I'd rather, said Mr Cameron, be a child of Thatcher than a son of Brown.
Politicians love the "children of....." taunt - conjuring up, as it does, Village of the Damned-style images of blank-eyed young people, imbued with a more concentrated and therefore scarier brand of their parents' ideology.
"Be afraid, be very afraid. They are all Thatcher's children," cried Labour supporting comedian Eddie Izzard during the general election.
It remains to be seen if the term catches on outside the narrow confines of the Westminster Village.
Your views ?
Personally, can we be orphans as wouldn't want to be associated with either
And?
You post things that are current news items, just as a statement - which people will possibly have read anyway if they're interested. Do you want comment, debate or what?
Freckle
The Poll's not showing (again), but have edit'd in the missing bits.
re etiquette, noted, however always thought better to place the content/subject in and then comment.
If we judge them on how successful a prime minister they were, then Thacher wins hands down.
I started work in 1981, about two years after she took the Torys to power, I personally found her inspirational, so I would be very happy to be a, "Thatcher's child".
and Mrs Thatchers legacy is.....Race Riots in the streets.....Industry sold off or closed down....to the point where we no longer have a manufacturing base.....riots in the streets over the Poll tax....the sight of Yuppies shouting loads of money to the unemployed.....she drove a wedge in this country between the have and have nots. Her own party saw her as a liability and kicked her out.
Whilst we talk about the legality of war......was the direct ordering by Mrs Thatcher of the sinking of the Argintinian boat " The Belgrano " legal????. It was clearly outside the war zone waters......and as was later found to be no more than a cargo ship with innocent sailors on !!
We can make a case for and against any leader. I was no great fan of Blair's either....but if you still have to accept he won three elections.....and was never actually defeated at the polls. He introduced the national min wage...he introduced human rights act and freedom of information act....he helped to oversee and bring peace to Northern Island.
As say..always two sides to every story !!!
no....we import coal from Poland mostly.....we had 6 pits in cannock at its peak.....Littleton Collery was the most productive in Europe....6 months after the strike finished ..Mrs Thatcher closed it.
The only ones currently open are privately owned...and nothing to do with the National Coal Board....as it was.
I am not 100% sure we can pin the race riots onto Mrs Thatcher, as she said at the time, "Money cannot buy either trust or racial harmony."
I would agree with Dean on the fact that we can make a case for or against any Prime Minister, It all hinges on who suited our needs at the time. Thatcher was good for me, but not for Dean, Blair was definitely not good for me. :sad:
Child of Thatcher and child of Brown - that would be these then.
aka Ignorance and Want. Beware them both, but especially the boy (ignorance).
