Greatest Brit Political Figure?

[Meatus]

yeah from Spike,

i love Costello, i just though Margaret On The Guillotine was very appropriate there.

Another piece of related trivia did you know that Steve Nieve from the Attractions played on Morrissey's solo album 'Kill Uncle' but Morrissey didn't like his surname so changed his name to Steve Heart in the credits on the sleeve!

There you go, you learn something new everyday! Unless you already knew in which case you learned nothing!

[supsim96]

wasn't carol thatcher's music teacher or someone "monitored" for once being a member of CND as well?

[davey]

Enoch Powell


jesus christ if only we had listened to that man

[supsim96]

sorry, was tired when I posted this - suffrage made a huge eventually positive impact of course. forgot to add EP to the original list.

[supsim96]

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[Floydoid]

It has to be Screaming Lord Sutch.

[max_tranmere]

Enoch Powell invented what was later called "Thatcherism" back in the 1960's. He developed a political ethos involving government adherence to free-market economics, low direct taxation, non state ownership of public utilities, and the market running things with the Government taking more of a back-seat. Love it hate it but this ideal, which was of course implemented by Maggie in the 1980s, is the copied political ethos in the world in the last 50 years. All over eastern Europe, Russia, south America, the southern hemisphere - all over the place - probably 50 countries have implemented those policies and those ways of doing things. And it was Powell whose idea it all was. Enoch Powell also famously said in 1968 a sentence that began with the words: "in this country, in 15 or 20 years time..." I wonder how true his predictions came...