THE WELFARE STATE may be falling apart. Unemployment may be million. declining.
sort all this out.
No, they are not going LU CiCale HUC IOUS. INU are they going to put more money into the NHS and other wasteful things like education, care of the aged and luxuries like nurseries. Nor, you will be relieved to canl, are taey gong your spending power. hat would onl make you better off and put more people in work.
The team: Maggie, Geoffrey, Norman, vienae- Norman, Keith and friends are just full of TUCaN OHwWe Cao trained to learn to suffer and still smile. You might rocketing to four Workers' purchasing power may be For millions of people Tory Britain might seem to be getting grimmer and grimmer. But don't worry. Mrs Thatcher's team are going to call that masochism. They describe it as being a seit elian responsible enterprising and aDaDC fulfilled adult' of their suggestions is that women should stay at home. This means SENZIE GalE resume responsibilities taken on Dy mne state ior example, responsibility for the disabled, elderly, unemployed 16-year olds.
This is sheer brilliance.
What a day it could be in the life of a woman. She can sit grandad in a chair near the telly. Then she can prop up some disabled relative on the couch while Sne eleans house, makes the meals, looks after the kids and in between takes two or three unempioved 16-vear olds for a walk around the park.
What a 'fulfilling' proDCCL. MIu WildL COHOn Think of the money w will save on welfarism so we Call buy more cruise and Tridents.
these are Particularly OCLUCLS their mams and dads ar of ESUIIC them are known to 'do in as much as a quid a week on sweets. But all that is going to end.
Geoffrey Howe, Patrick Jenkin and NorTebbit are going to Illdll their pocket moneyan ss their pooints out: Yr they Tebbit points out: Maggie: families must look after themselves. don't save up how can they ever attord to buy a bike to go job seeking?
Geoffrey and Patrick are even more foresighted than Norman. They wan children to learn the art of saving so that when they join the dole queue the will not waste money on but will invest part of their giros in business and wealth creation' The new plans will also help our overworked police force. Parents will be responsible "for-soiae the anti-ohear behaviour their children' This could helr in two ways. If some kic COHLES they could be sent to borstal and their parents could go TO Holloway and Parkhurst.
This could be a real deterrent to all those who were thinking of having a family and at the same time would cut the unemployfigures quite drastically You thought Maggie's team were not too keen on immierants. How wrong can you get? They want to publicise success ASLORC made ord sie o sian made good" like corner shops' So presumably every immigrant will be given the money to start . a corner shop. But will there be enough corners?
You be suspicious of all this and think it's a return to Vic torianism Well you are right. The Tories are quite serious about chopping welfare, making you pa Tor education keeping you and your kind in you 30 aCe. They know it's the only way to build a Britain where free enterprise and profit dominate our lives ana numar Vo Ci trampled underfoot. Bu that is what Toryism is al about.