The Great British Betrayal
https://open.substack.com/pub/keithwoodspub/p/the-great-british-betrayal?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3o734l Since the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in 1979, Britain has undergone a great experiment. Economically, the UK became the exemplar of neoliberalism in Europe. Politically, the UK has quietly transitioned to a postnational state, undergoing one of the greatest demographic transformations in the West. Although the landslide victory of Tony Blair’s “New Labour” in 1997 may have seemed like a return to the model of European social democracy that Britain exemplified after the Second World War, Blair’s “Third Way” represented rather the embrace of neoliberalism by the establishment Left, summed up nicely by their spokesman Peter Mandelson’s declaration that “we are all Thatcherites now”. Under the leadership of both the Conservative Party and New Labour, Britain has transitioned from a traditional industri...