{Political Perspectives [continued]}[1st January 1988]

[Redbook4:277][19880101:2330e]{Political Perspectives [continued]}[1st January 1988]

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Taking the longer view, I have tended to see Mrs. T* like the surgeon for our life-saving operation. We are afraid of her but can see no sensible alternative. We know that she may fail – through mistaken diagnosis or faulty cure – and that if she does, the end may be accelerated. But she seemed, on the arguments and the evidence, to offer the only chance that the end might not be inevitable, just yet.

I remember very well the trampling race for higher wages by British people at all levels, from Union members to top industrialists, and the misery inflicted during the struggles – in the 1970's, particularly. At that time we showed as a Nation** how much our Individual prosperity mattered to us, and if Mrs. Thatcher is the result we can blame nobody but ourselves*** – whether we as Individuals voted for her or not.

*[See footnote to last previous entry.]

**[i.e. the United Kingdom]

***[as a Nation]

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