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1970 or 1979?

Allister Heath's article in today's CityAM spells it out like it is:

"Every so often, a confluence of events forces a country to choose a new direction. Britain is at such a crossroads: we need radical reform in virtually all areas of domestic policy as well as new trading relationships and security alliances internationally.

The riots and the crisis in the Eurozone ought to serve as catalysts for change. But so far the government remains hopelessly in hook to vested interests."

Indeed.  But will our response be Ted Heath or Margaret Thatcher?

Is this the early 70s, when a government is elected to office promising radical change, but is defeated by the vested interests, our national decline continuing apace? 

Or is this 1979, when a government is elect with a radical agenda, takes a little while to get going, but manages to reverse decades of sclerosis?

Perhaps the magpies need to do a little bit more than cut and paste from The Plan whenever it suits (see elected police commissioners, localism, Great Repeal Bill etc).  Picking up other people's bright, shiny ideas and presenting them as your own is not the same as having a coherent programme for change ....

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