Eric Pickles = The Abzorbaloff

any others?

Did they have cctv, ID cards, dodgy databases back in the seventies?
Brown’s Labour would be more 1984.

Ah, but the guitar bands were REAL guitar bands.

That wouldn’t take us back to the 1970s; it would mark a return to the 1930s. That’s what the Tories truly want, and it is the last thing Britain needs.

Tha sees – this is where I am between a rock and a hard place. I do keep thinking that the UK has to have an openly Thatcherite government with all that; that entails – unlike the knobrots that are Thatcher-lite at the moment.

Will the pain and suffering that this will bring be enough to get the public to wake up and say ‘Enough is enough’ and really do something about the black hole that is parliament at the moment.

The hard place is that I don’t want anyone to suffer at all, just for people to realise that having a Tory government will lead the UK into depression, worse than recession.

As me ol’ Dad used to say “They need a boot up the arse!”

IMO William Hague is better advised to concentrate on his foreign affairs brief since he plainly doesn’t have much of a clue about the economic issues of the 1970s, which were very different from those now. For a start, we don’t have double digit inflation rates – the prospect of a double-dip recession and deflation are more threatening. Nor have we had a legacy of statutory then voluntary incomes policies or anything remotely like the winter of discontent of 1978/9.

It’s not as though Hague’s foreign affairs brief isn’t sufficiently challenging to test his err . . talents.

For starters, there’s the pressing matter of the links made by the Conservatives with their new found friends from Poland in the European Conservative and Reform Group (ECR). This press report clarifies a few of the dilemmas:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/19/rabbi-tories-polish-mep

Then there’s the matter of standing should-to-shoulder with the NeoCons in America, as Iain Duncan Smith repeatedly urged Tony Blair to do. Btw whatever happened to Iain Duncan Smith?

Surely, regime change hasn’t fallen out of fashion already. Consider all those regimes which need changing into democracies: China, Iran and Zimbabwe, just for starters. There are plenty more invasions to gear up for.

OTOH just possibly, it’s dawned on David Cameron that George Osborne is an electoral liability so Cameron is lining up Hague to take replace him.

…or Hague is laying the groundwork for a “we weren’t Thatcherite enough” narrative should Cameron fail to achieve a majority against one of the most unpopular administrations in history.

@6; “Hague is laying the groundwork for a ‘we weren’t Thatcherite enough’ narrative”

Would that signal the next Conservative government returning to the “Medium Term Financial Strategy” – the proper title of Monetarism, which was formally abandoned in autumn 1985 – then promoting an unsustainable boom leading to a renewed surge in inflation by the late 1980s, plus an intention to rejoin the European Exchange Rate Mechanism we were forced to leave in September 1992?

By 1992, total tax revenues as a percentage of Britain’s GDP were much the same as in May 1979 when Mrs Thacher became PM.

If that is what Hague plans, I can hardly contain my enthusiasm, Surely, Conservatives can’t be that stupid?

I don’t know I am feeling all 1970′s. Harry’s Place having right wing Freedom association lovers like Risdon writing for them.
Makes me all nostalgic
Ah those days at Grunwick.