{Silence gives Consent [continued]}[6th December 1988]

[Redbook6:62-63)][19881206:1713b]{Silence gives Consent [continued]}[6th December 1988]

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*But what do you expect from a Government which, with a minority of the popular vote, has embarked on a radical restructuring of that consensus social economy which had been built up over nearly a century of political development? And whose style is marked by a Presidential authoritarianism from the Centre, of a kind quite foreign to British politics in peacetime?

Oddly enough, although I was for two periods – once when I first voted for them in (?) 1979, and again from the Falklands campaign in 1982 until late in 1987 – basically a supporter of what they seemed to be doing for the Economy [sic] – I have always, without exception that I can recall, found Mrs Thatcher herself and the majority of her young supporters extremely difficult to take: something about her manner on television, which seemed and seems gratingly contrived, and theirs which typically seems shallow and insincere. And now I know it was all true – I was right, and refused to accept the implications.

*[See last previous entry]

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