Like many Lib Dems, and indeed people across Keighley and Ilkley, and in fact up and down the country I agree wholeheartedly with Claire Rayner's comments above.
Far be it for me to rebuke my leader for his comments earlier this week in the Spectator magazine, wherein he extolled Mrs Thatcher. But he was talking rot. He mistakes her dogma for principle, her obduracy for strength, and her lack of compassion for resolve.
Claire goes on to say that "She [Mrs. Thatcher] made it good to be greedy, good to neglect the poor, and she denied there was such a thing as society".
People who say they admire Mrs Thatcher and her Tories remind me of all those appeasers who used to say things like, "Say what you will about Mussolini, but at least he made the trains run on time", it's both crass and factually inaccurate.
She was the person at the head of a government who devastated this country economically, politically, and socially. Nick only has to look at his own city of Sheffield and the plight of the steelworkers in the 1980s.
As for the miners... to unleash the full force of the state on a section of society, a trade union, and communities up and down the country was unconscionable. Where there should have been compassion there was instead belligerance, instead of wisdom there was vengeance, instead of magnanimity there was the crowing of the yahoo.
I say this to Nick and the leadership, the Tories cannot be trusted, they are ideologically our antithesis, politically our enemies, and morally bereft of any saving graces.
The last thing that Britain needs, even with all the restraining influences that we Lib Dems may be able to bring upon them, would be a Tory government of any shape or form.
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