Originally Posted by Chris

There are none so blind as those that refuse to see. Or those that choose to believe the smears of the Left rather than the stated, clarified and endlessly-repeated truth from the author and her trusted spokespeople.

The whole 'destruction of society' line suited, in fact still suits, the Labour party because Thatcher's belief in the power of individuals acting together is at complete odds with the Left's belief that ultimately, only the State is capable of effecting change in society.

While Tony Blair was presenting himself as the natural heir of Margaret Thatcher, behind him Gordon Brown as chancellor quietly reconfigured the entire relationship between citizen and State, mostly by bribing the middle classes with free money, creating a whole client class who have arranged their family life and budget around State provision. Child Tax credit paid to families earning well over the national average? Trust funds paid out to babies born in every family from the super rich down to the super poor? And a seething, selfish sense of entitlement that permits well-off yummy mummies to complain about the withdrawal of child benefit on the basis that it's their right, plain and simple, without any moral compunction to engage with the arguments about affordability.

That is what happens when a government conspires to make people rely on 'society' to take care of them, and that is what Margaret Thatcher spoke out against.