There Is Such A Thing As Society

[sp1814]

Margaret Thatcher once said:

"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no governments can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

Johnson has contradicted this:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/29/20000-nhs-staff-return-to-service-johnson-says-from-coronavirus-isolation

Who's right?

Full Thatcher quote:

https://www.ft.com/content/d1387b70-a5d5-11e2-9b77-00144feabdc0

[naomi24]

AH(SP), //Since she was married to a millionaire, what sort of experience has she ever had of 'looking after herself, and then her neighbours' do you think? //

You do Mrs Thatcher a disservice. She was the daughter of a shopkeeper and went to a state school. She wasn’t born into wealth. The girl done good!

[andy-hughes]

sp - // Absolutely andy-hughes.

Some people believe in society only when it suits them. //

And Mrs Thatch was a prime example of that - trotting out her working class roots as a grocer's daughter when it suited her, and then spouting claptrap about 'looking after yourself' when she deemed it politically expedient.

The woman had a swinging brick for a heart, and her ideology was entirely in line with that.

[naomi24]

AH, I’m from a working class background and I believe in ‘looking after yourself’ too. What’s wrong with that?

[ynnafymmi]

sp and andy-hughes wont be happy until they open the coal mines again,naomi.So much for global warming among these revisionists.

[ynnafymmi]

However,as a left-wing Tory i am quite admiring the cut of this fellow Starmers jibe.But can he wait 4 years till the next election.

[naomi24]

ynnafymmi, //sp and andy-hughes wont be happy until they open the coal mines again,naomi//

A fat lot of good that would do. It reminds me of Jeremy Corbyn when he first arose to fame banging on about how he was going to build factories. Never a word about what those factories were going to produce and, more to the point, how, with all the fabulous wages he intended paying the workers, they were to compete in a global market. Labour never did understand the how a thriving economy thrives.

[ynnafymmi]

Sorry,Naomi,but i cant see Andy-Hughes,sp 1814,canary,the devil,10clarionstreet,etc being happy until Seamus Mil....sorry,Corbyn is back into power again in the Labour Party.Cant these left-wingers not just go over to one of their natural party(such as the SWP)rather than be a drag on this new awakening of the party of Attlee and Bevin?