Prime Ministerial, from the New Statesman | John Major
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The Puppeteers and the British Working Class
I think the real attempt to crush the British working class, if you can put it like that, was done under Thatcher. So I think much of the work was done and the really combative stuff had been achieved by Thatcher. But don't forget the actual minds were closed down under Major, you know, the minds they promised they wouldn't close. And the recession, of course, that he oversaw, did a lot of damage to ordinary working people. He seemed in politics to make the world a better place, according to his view of the world. Did that make being a satirist less fun? No, because we sort of scored a ball's eye with the grey thing and the
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