The Thatcherite Market Liberal Awaits Another Morning

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There Is No Alternative, Possibly There Was

There Is No Alternative, Possibly There Was

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the political right wing frontier.

The Thatcherite Market Liberal believes the country was sorted out once, in the 1980s, by a woman with very strong opinions about milk. Our editor Alan Nafzger, of The London Prat, files these field notes on the Thatcherite Market Liberal mindset, with help from the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Margaret Thatcher Foundation.

Twenty Things You Learn Watching Thatcherite Market Liberal In The Wild

  1. Refers to Margaret Thatcher the way some men refer to a beloved cricket captain.
  2. Has explained, repeatedly, that there is no alternative.
  3. Believes any state-owned anything is a sort of slow national damp.
  4. Has a fantasy in which BT is privatised again, just to enjoy it.
  5. Refers to Arthur Scargill the way historians refer to floods.
  6. Considers the Big Bang of 1986 a sort of national fireworks night.
  7. Has a binder of Thatcher speeches he can summon by mood.
  8. Refers to council houses as the great unfinished sale.
  9. Believes any union is, structurally, a tax on common sense.
  10. Has explained, at a wedding, that the Lady was not for turning, even at the cake.
  11. Refers to Europe as the long, awkward dinner.
  12. Considers any Conservative leader since 1990 a small sigh.
  13. Has a fantasy in which the Falklands return.
  14. Refers to public spending as the addiction.
  15. Believes any policy can be improved by privatising the bit nearest.
  16. Refers to the IEA the way poets refer to spring.
  17. Considers the right to buy a sort of national love letter.
  18. Has explained that society does, in fact, exist, but is overrated.
  19. Refers to Whitehall as the building she should have flattened.
  20. Believes the country is one disciplined Chancellor away from another morning.

Closing Note From The Editor

If any of the above sounds familiar, you have been to a Tory dinner, a Reform UK rally, or a slightly tense Christmas. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see Private Eye.

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/

SOURCE: The London Prat