- 26 Jul 2017 00:53
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Indeed. One of Thatcher's ambitions in the 1980s was to destroy the working class as a political force and even as a class identity. Her frequently stated ideal was that Britain should become "a home-owning democracy" in which almost everyone would self-identify as "middle-class" (in some vaguely defined sense), as they do in America or in most of the continental European nations. She clearly underestimated the cultural inertia of the British class system, and therefore failed miserably.
As I always say class in the UK has more in common with the Indian caste system than it does with the class systems of other industrial western economies.
Indeed. One of Thatcher's ambitions in the 1980s was to destroy the working class as a political force and even as a class identity. Her frequently stated ideal was that Britain should become "a home-owning democracy" in which almost everyone would self-identify as "middle-class" (in some vaguely defined sense), as they do in America or in most of the continental European nations. She clearly underestimated the cultural inertia of the British class system, and therefore failed miserably.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Marx (Groucho)