Just to recommend a great post over on Iain Dale’s blog comparing Thatcher’s 1988 Cabinet with Brown’s 2008 vintage. Do Brown and Darling rank up to Margaret Thatcher, Nigel Lawson et al? Or is it, as Iain says, a case of the lightweights against the heavyweights?
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David Boothroyd
August 8th, 2008 10:29pmAnd which cabinet of the two produced the Poll Tax, and kicked off the second recession in a decade?
Stercus accidit
August 9th, 2008 12:26pm... And which cabinet produced the 'poll tax on wheels' (otherwise known as Vehicle Excise Duty, whacking poorer drivers owning older cars in the name of pseudo-environmentalism) and kicked off the first recession of the new century with the first run on a UK bank in over a century?
Diversity
August 10th, 2008 3:21pmThe Tory Cabinet did not produce Poll Tax; Mrs T. did. By then the Cabinet was too weak to check her.
Gordon Brown's Cabinet is much lighter weight than Mrs T's ever was. And it has failed to check two Poll tax equivalents: ID cards you have to pay for, and the latest edition of VED.
David Boothroyd
August 10th, 2008 7:32pmDiversity, not true. Mrs Thatcher was not personally committed to the Poll Tax until converted by ambitious ministers Kenneth Baker and William Waldegrave. Thatcher would happily have left it alone.
Also there ain't going to be no recession now, according to the IMF: 1.4% growth this year, 1.1% next.