Britain was a much more equal society before Thatcher than it has been at any time since.
In this short THREAD, I just want to try and quickly take stock of what forty years of increasingly deregulated free-market capitalism has actually achieved.
"We truly did everything we could to minimise loss of life."
No, @BorisJohnson, you absolutely did not.
You didn't lock down. You didn't close borders. You didn't protect care homes. You didn't deliver on test & trace.
You just didn't have the guts to take the tough decisions.
Of course younger people are more concerned than older people about Climate Change. In decades to come, they’re the ones who must live in the World that the rest of us have borrowed from them.