“Do these fanatics really want to emulate the Thatcher government’s “achievements” of presiding over a doubling of the inflation rate, to approaching 20%, between 1979 and 1980 – accompanied by the biggest recession since the second world war – and a level of unemployment that rose from under 1.5 million in 1979 (when Conservative posters proclaimed “Labour isn’t working”) to more than 3 million by 1986?
Do they not realise, as they chase chimerical Brexit “opportunities”, that Kenneth Clarke, a decent Tory, described Thatcher’s contribution to forming the European single market as her greatest achievement?”