The coming to power of the politician of the non-imperial era. A Literary note on chapters 5-7 of the book by Jean-Louis Thiériot "Margaret Thatcher: "From the Grocery Store to the House of Lords"
Аннотация: The coming to power of the politician of the non-imperial era. A Literary note on chapters 5-7 of the book by Jean-Louis Thiériot "Margaret Thatcher: "From the Grocery Store to the House of Lords"
The coming to power of the politician of the non-imperial era. A Literary note on chapters 5-7 of the book by Jean-Louis Thiériot "Margaret Thatcher: "From the Grocery Store to the House of Lords"
All processes have a beginning and a result.
The British Empire, like the Russian Empire, was existing during a centures.
In 1947, the status of India changed. The British Empire de facto ceased to exist around the middle of the 20th century. That is, about 30 years after 1917.
Winston Churchill was a politician of the imperial era.
From 1947-1949, Margaret Roberts worked as a chemist at BX Plastics in Colchester.
In February 1950, parliamentary elections were held in which Margaret Roberts lost to Labor candidate Norman Dodds.
In 1955, Winston Churchill resigned and withdrew from active political activity.
In 1959, Margaret Thatcher was elected to Parliament.
The completion of a certain historical period was an indisputable fact. And Margaret Thatcher took this fact as a given, as a political reality.
If we accept the thesis that Margaret Thatcher was not a politician with an imperial worldview, we can assume that some trends in geopolitics were still the subject of her thoughts.
December 16, 1984 the first meeting of Margaret Thatcher with the future Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev took place.
On December 19, 1984, agreements were signed with the PRC on the return of Hong Kong to China.
Everything is interconnected. And it is not always clear which a thread you need to start pulling in order to pull the desired result.
In some cases, the future results of the activities (carried out in the present) are not even distinguishable in the fog of a future.
The lines from the book by Jean-Louis Thiériot are very useful :
'On the steps of 10 Downing Street, she first of all read the apocryphal Prayer of Saint Francis, which Ronald Millar advised her to voice: '...Where there is discord, let me bring union. Where there is error, let me bring truth. Where there is doubt, let me bring faith. Where there is despair, let me bring hope.' [Jean-Louis Thiériot, Margaret Thatcher, de l'épicerie à la Chambre des Lords] [Жан Луи Тьерио 'Маргарет Тэтчер: От бакалейной лавки до палаты лордов']
One of the problems (if to formulate her in a hyperbolic form) is that people of European mentality and European historical experience, people who have struggled for a 8-hour working day, medical, social, pension effective social systems, two days off a week, a 20 - 30-day annual leave and other social principles with surprise find, see themselves in a state of competition with people of the another, different mentality who are ready to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without days off, without annual vacation and without a salary ...
Labourites - members and supporters of a Labour Party - relied on a redistribution, on a money emission, on Egalitarianism (on the ideology of equalitarianism) ...
It is possible to proceed from other principles.
Some time you can talk about the excessive appetites of co-citizens, about their too great requests and desires, even about their penchant for laziness ('Dig a soil! Plant and cultivate potatoes!'), about their excessive penchant for political demagogy, about the need to work longer and more intensively, about the benefits of a thrift and a solicitude, but this a political reserve (a reserve, based on criticism of some laziness of co-citizens and calls for optimizing their life and working activity) is not unlimited ...
Political experience and political algorithms based on the reality of prosperous representatives of the middle class of the island state can have a positive effect over a considerable period of time.
But a new phenomena come, for example, the coronavirus pandemic. And it turns out that the reality of life of prosperous representatives of the middle class of the island state is a relative validity...
April 30, 2020 13:39
Translation from Russian into English: May 1, 2020 07:54.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Приход к власти политика неимперской эпохи. Литературная заметка о главах 5-7 книги Жана Луи Тьерио 'Маргарет Тэтчер: От бакалейной лавки до палаты лордов''.