it's only satire (but it's so true it'll hurt)
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forget rae and the other reviewer,this book is pure political satire (AT IT'S VERY BEST)take it for what it is.............a very funny look at the thatcher/major years and if you like it (which i promise you will)try and get hold of a copy of the oustanding littlejohn novel to hell in a handcart,AND PLEASE TRY AND REMEMBER IT IS ONLY SATIRE SO DON'T GET TO "HET UP"..........................mind how you go
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Thatcher/Major era - interesting to compare with Bliar era
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Collection of about 60 pieces of different lengths; dating roughly from the era when the Tories were regarded as 'sleazy' usually in the sex sense ('family values' joke, Mellor &c), and corrupt in the money sense- MP company interests, monopolist utility companies with billion profits, share options, ministers taking jobs in ex-public companies they'd invented. Fascinating to compare with today's situation though the wars today compared with those around USSR breakup seem larger and perhaps worse.
There's material on Europe, including ex chancellor Lamont saying there was no benefit whatever to Britain that he knew of.
Also perhaps especially pieces on the genesis of social engineering frauds - he mentions eg Rowntree foundation reports and has several pieces (p83 on inventing conferences and syndromes, p93 inventing a new pressure group, p187 on lawyer-driven litigation, p125 one parent families, etc.)
In some sense he's a bit naive - remember the dead 'defence' MP with a satsuma in his mouth? - Littlejohn doesn't realise the trappings were probably a distraction. (This trait continues today - he's naive about Jewish influences for example. He has no sense of huge military interests. He accepts the 9/11 story at face value. Etc.).
All the material is unsourced - which of course is typical of the entire media spectrum, so one can't be too harsh. But some of the one-legged lesbian collective stories of this era were, apparently, made up.
However as part of the momentum which eventually led to Bliar being elected - and will analogously no doubt result in Labour being removed - it's a fascinating though rather depressing collection. He does have a collection of traditional beliefs, on, say WW2 but not WW1; and top atrocities of all time; but these are so common that criticism is on another plane. Whatever you are told these are not 'rants'.
Rae West
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Ranting
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A tedious ranting bore of a book that hysterically tries to pin the 'decline' of Britain on any number of minority groups. Readers of this book, will themselves, find themselves in a minority.
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