“The perceptive in the City could see that their long run of ever more perfect freedom, beginning with Margaret Thatcher’s big bang and advancing, to their pleasant surprise, under Tony Blair’s New Labour, was facing a prolonged interruption when the masses worked out that they had been left with the bill for the incipient crisis. The new moneymen of the former Soviet Union shared with the libertarians of the City a loathing for the state. They had done splendid business together, the industrial triumphs of the proletariat laid out in lavish stock market prospectuses.” CorruptionOligarchyCity Of LondonTony BlairMargaret ThatcherNew Labour Author:Tom Burgis
“You don't beat terrorists by bombing and shooting. All that does is increase work for the recruitment officers for terrorists.” ViolenceIraqTerrorismLabourIraq WarBlairNew LabourMo Mowlam Author:Mo Mowlam