• Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    He’s making the comparison because he wants the Labour Party to have the same kind of visionary spirit as someone like Thatcher. Not to copy the politics or ideology.

    This is really not difficult. But because Thatcher is mentioned, everyone has a hissy fit.

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      8 months ago

      Well yeah. There are other visionaries that haven’t damaged the UK as much as Thatcher, he could have mentioned them instead. But he didn’t - he made the decision to call Thatcher a visionary, same as Rachel Reeves did. It’s not just some arbitrary name he pulled out of a hat.

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        8 months ago

        Because she’s the most recent example.

        Everyone who came after has just been a bland Prime Minister who doesn’t really want to do anything.