Stop Thatcher's Greatest Triumph

Dr John Sentamu is of course quite right.

But when the governing party has a totally unreconstructed 1970s man-hater as its Deputy Leader, and has MPs bought and paid for by the corrupt and corrupting Emily's List; and when the other two parties are just as in thrall to the same lobby; then what do you expect?

1980s consumer capitalism (nothing to do with the real consumer movement) was always the planned entrenchment of 1960s permissiveness. It was Thatcher who destroyed the economic basis of patriarchal authority, initially in working-class communities. She did that on purpose, and the effects are all around us. They are everything for which we despise her and her devotees.

So this change will represent Thatcher's greatest triumph of all, at least to date.

But there is now an alternative to the anti-male, and therefore (as much as anything else) anti-Socialist and anti-working-class, stranglehold on social policy over the last thirty years, from which women and children have suffered most.