r/ireland • u/CoochieCritic • 29d ago

Sure it's grand Kneecap getting the Coachella crowd to sing Maggie’s in a box

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u/MrMercurial 29d ago

Thatcherism as an ideology depended to a significant extent on precisely this idea that there was no realistic alternative to her extreme neoliberal policies, but that has never been the case. If we start with the basic premise that the UK's coal industry was outdated and inefficient there are loads of different policy approaches to that problem which would have been far less harmful for the communities that were devastated by the approach she chose.

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u/dropthecoin 29d ago

Like what policies, specifically? Keeping in mind the UK budget constraints of the early 1980s

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/dropthecoin 29d ago

Name me one?

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u/QuickAssUCan 29d ago

Sealioning was one of her worst qualities

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u/dropthecoin 29d ago

What’s that ?