have the tories always been this way? american republicans used to care about deficits and would actually look to raise taxes to pay for spending to avoid them. They had much more of what you would think of as an individual being conservative in their finances. Then reagan hit and its just been lower taxes on wealthy ever since with a side of crazy that keeps getting bigger such that its practically the whole plate now.
My gut instinct is to say no, that the level of fuckery we’re seeing now was seeded by Thatcher. But I was born in ‘80, just as she came to power, so can’t really speak for a time before then.
have the tories always been this way? american republicans used to care about deficits and would actually look to raise taxes to pay for spending to avoid them. They had much more of what you would think of as an individual being conservative in their finances. Then reagan hit and its just been lower taxes on wealthy ever since with a side of crazy that keeps getting bigger such that its practically the whole plate now.
My gut instinct is to say no, that the level of fuckery we’re seeing now was seeded by Thatcher. But I was born in ‘80, just as she came to power, so can’t really speak for a time before then.
I was lucky and born in the early 70’s so was able to just barely able to experience some normalcy.