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Great PMs of the 21st Century
TruckerT
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If Great PMs arrive at roughly 40 year intervals, then the next one should be due in the 2020s. What will he or she have to do in order to qualify as a Great PM?
Churchill performed on a World Stage, and so did Thatcher - she was a key player in some momentous world changes, most notably the dismantling of the USSR (which Churchill helped to create!). The world-wide banking collapse cannot have been caused by just one national leader operating in a vacuum.
So what will the World Stage look like in the 2020s? Will the biggest threat be international terrorism, or will it be food shortages?
If it was the trade unions who had a stranglehold on us all during the decade before Thatcherism, then it is the banks who have a stranglehold now.
Who will take on the banks in the 2020s?
And who will finally get around to making serious cuts in carbon emissions?
Present-day politicians need to start addressing World issues instead of looking out for their own career prospects in their own backyard.
Margaret Thatcher was not afraid to think big!
TruckerT
Churchill performed on a World Stage, and so did Thatcher - she was a key player in some momentous world changes, most notably the dismantling of the USSR (which Churchill helped to create!). The world-wide banking collapse cannot have been caused by just one national leader operating in a vacuum.
So what will the World Stage look like in the 2020s? Will the biggest threat be international terrorism, or will it be food shortages?
If it was the trade unions who had a stranglehold on us all during the decade before Thatcherism, then it is the banks who have a stranglehold now.
Who will take on the banks in the 2020s?
And who will finally get around to making serious cuts in carbon emissions?
Present-day politicians need to start addressing World issues instead of looking out for their own career prospects in their own backyard.
Margaret Thatcher was not afraid to think big!
TruckerT
According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
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How did Churchill help create USSR?0
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Thrugelmir wrote: »How did Churchill help create USSR?
You will probably find some useful clues as you continue to research your Dad's wartime activities!
TruckerTAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
The best ones, are the dead ones.
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You will probably find some useful clues as you continue to research your Dad's wartime activities!
TruckerT
Hitler and Stalin drew up a non aggression pact in 1939, which included the carving up of Poland. This would have held had Germany not attacked Russia in 1941. From 1943 onwards the Russians were driving the Germans backwards.
So D Day in 1944 had a variety of purposes. From the Allies perspective limiting the Russian advance was merely one.
Churchill?0 -
The thing that Thatcher and Atlee (the iconic PM for socialists I guess) is that they redefined where the political centre was. That was their genius.
They each created a system of politics that endured far after their political careers were finished.0 -
The USSR was formed in 1921 after the Bolshevik revolution. Not sure what Churchill had to do with creating it other than fighting of the western front for a few months in 1917.Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0
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^^ That was my thought
We are all rebased left now, I hope we dont have to 'thank' Blairredefined where the political centre was
banks dont have anything they arent given.then it is the banks who have a stranglehold now.
Who will take on the banks in the 2020s?
The noose is the amount of debt used in government finance. Banks hold and deal gov debt in large amounts so are vital to this particular incarnation of democracy. We are in a mexican standoff
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'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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