Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on December 03, 2023, 04:34:40 AM
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It's the vacuousness of the idea of Britain's 'natural entrepreneurialism' that I find most tedious.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67604830
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Indeed. Akin to the idea of a "nation of shopkeepers".
As my late mother used to say if we are all keeping shop who's going to do the buying?
Simplistic stuff designed to appeal to the hard of thinking.
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Indeed. Akin to the idea of a "nation of shopkeepers".
As my late mother used to say if we are all keeping shop who's going to do the buying?
Simplistic stuff designed to appeal to the hard of thinking.
The "nation of shopkeepers" thing was intended as an insult.
As for Kier Starmer, he might be right, although pretty much everything people attribute to Margaret Thatcher - good or bad - turns out to be wrong, but he is the Labour leader, hoping to form the next government and he shouldn't be doing things that so obviously look bad for him.
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The "nation of shopkeepers" thing was intended as an insult.
It was by Napoleon (allegedly) but later adopted by Thatcher and the right-wing press and used in a "positive" sense.