Margaret Thatcher on socialist governments
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Huh, year I was born...my Mum always told me never to trust the looney left as she called it, she told me not to trust the conservatives either, she said it was all set up to make people miserable and confused.
The "uniparty" is an easy mistake for many to make. Labour and the Conservatives hate each other with a burning passion but they are creatures of this paradigm and its horrible ideas, hence why they look similar to us outsiders. They aren't the same, but they're similar enough to be incapable of fixing the problem.
Thatcher, however, was a bit of an exception to that.
I don't know about the UK but the US definitely has a uniparty and I've come to understand them more over the years. I haven't seen any evidence contradicting it yet - it's just that there are different levels.
Small-time representatives are playing it straight, they think they're working for the people. The longer they're in office, the more inconsistencies and outright lies they'll spot from their colleagues. They eventually either quit in disgust, learn to work the system, or get kicked out with a made up controversy if they cross the line.
State officials and your typical representative are playing politics on camera, but attending the same events, getting funded by the same corporations, and are the best of friends off camera. Their goal is to get promoted, but at this level they still don't know how everything works.
At the highest levels, it's effectively one constantly bickering extended family - like the Mafia but with less honor. They'll make deals where they literally trade seats for seats, look the other way when the other side cheats, offer bribes, and hold blackmail material over one another. One side may pretend they're acting honorably, while the other side backstabs them routinely - but they'll never betray The Party to the media or law enforcement. (they control most media and law enforcement anyway)
And then there are levels above that, beyond politics, where the real power lies.
Such a strange woman. Argentines are confused by her. By declaring war and beating the military, she helped end the occupation. Then you have to ask why on earth England wants the islands in the first place!?
It's simple. It started over "who was there first". The UK had defacto rule over it since 1833. The Argentinians claimed they had defacto rule over it as they "dibs" d it first two years earlier.
The UK claims their rule is stronger because they had a settlement on the islands as early as the 1730s odd with there being no contest from Argentina for over 100 years.
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