To me both the the 70s and 80s are as recent as if they were yesterday and perhaps that's why I am so horrified by the idea of a Conservative government. The Conservatives in the 80s were not just privatisers, they didn't just open the gates of hell when they deregulated the City, attracting all the money into it that might otherwise have gone into British manufacturing, the Conservatives were supporters of the Apartheid regime and they believed that all socialists and communists were " the enemy within". The Young Tories in those days, ( Cameron was too young to be one of them), made T-Shirts referring to saying: Hang Nelson Mandela . This was the age when Britain didn't just coat-tail on US wars for resources and strategic advantage as it does today, it was a time when when the Conservatives actually turned Britain into ground zero. According to CND at the time the Tories allowed Reagan's mob to site more than a 100 military bases on British soil,
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