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Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, is getting more criticism from the Labour left over his Mais lecture tonight, in which (according to extracts released in advance) she is going to say Labour wants an “inclusive” version of the “decade of renewal” that followed Margaret Thatcher’s election in. 1979. (See 9.16am and 9.32am.)
This is from Momentum, the leftwing Labour group.
This is a Labour Leadership out of touch with the labour movement and Labour values.
We want to overturn Thatcher’s disastrous settlement, not recreate it. https://t.co/O0ABZptKVC
— Momentum 🌹 (@PeoplesMomentum) March 19, 2024
This is a Labour Leadership out of touch with the labour movement and Labour values.
We want to overturn Thatcher’s disastrous settlement, not recreate it.
And this is from Richard Leonard MSP, the former Scottish Labour party leader.
In the 1980s manufacturing was butchered, factory after factory closed, privatisation was let rip, unemployment rocketed, profits boomed, the wage share fell, the rich got richer, and inequality soared.
No rewriting of history.
Thatcher didn’t renew the economy, she broke it.
— Richard Leonard (@LabourRichard) March 19, 2024
In the 1980s manufacturing was butchered, factory after factory closed, privatisation was let rip, unemployment rocketed, profits boomed, the wage share fell, the rich got richer, and inequality soared.
No rewriting of history.
Thatcher didn’t renew the economy, she broke it.
In her speech Reeves will say:
As we did at the end of the 1970s, we stand at an inflection point, and as in earlier decades, the solution lies in wide-ranging supply-side reform to drive investment, remove the blockages constraining our productive capacity, and fashion a new economic settlement, drawing on evolutions in economic thought.
Thatcher’s government was associated with extensive supply-side reforms, including privatisation, deregulation and restrictions on…
2024-03-19 07:24:25
Source from www.theguardian.com