\t\t\t\tThe angst in Britain about the form of the funeral for the Witch goes on. I liked the suggestion of filmmaker Ken Loach who suggested the whole affair be privatised and outsourced with competitive tenders determining the outcome. Hypocrisy rules though and the Conservative government will spend a pretty penny on the effort as a means of presenting her legacy in some good light. They won’t succeed because people know! With the latest British labour force data due out tomorrow, I was interested to read an interesting forensic study of recent labour market trends in Britain. The official line from the Government is that things are improving and “see, our policies are allowing those who want to work hard to achieve their aspirations”. The paper, which I discuss in this blog, tells us that those narratives are not even remotely true. Despite the official summary labour force statistics, once one digs more deeply into the data the trends are bad and getting worse.
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\nIn all the to-ing and froing last week in Britain, I was especially heartened to see the speech from Labour MP Glenda Jackson. She said it how it was. Where were her gutless fellow Labour colleagues – who seemed to scared to say anything about Margaret Thatcher – perhaps out of (a false sense of) politeness or perhaps because they know that in many ways they have become like her. They have incorporated her policy narratives into the core of their party.<\/p>\n
But go Glenda! “The most heinous social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country …”<\/p>\n