Lawson's ticket gets punched

[Nylock]

Climate change denier, overseer of the great sell-off and all-round arsewipe Nigel Lawson has shuffled off this mortal coil and joined Thatcher in whatever circle of hell she inhabits.

BBC Article

 

[Pickman's model]

Climate change denier, overseer of the great sell-off and all-round arsewipe Nigel Lawson has shuffled off this mortal coil and joined Thatcher in whatever circle of hell she inhabits.

BBC Article

More proof the good die young

 

[not a trot]

Was he the cunt who claimed millions unemployed was a price worth paying for getting down inflation ?

 

[not a trot]

Snivelling git also springs to mind.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Was he the cunt who claimed millions unemployed was a price worth paying for getting down inflation ?

no, that was a different tory twunt, norman lamont

 

[Dystopiary]

I thought he was a member of John Major's grey cabinet but I just checked and he'd gone by then.
The papers'll be full of sychopancy tomorrow.

 

[Dystopiary]

no, that was a different tory twunt, norman lamont

Think that was the yogurt pot guy.

 

[JimW]

Sad news, that a man like him gets to die peacefully of old age.

 

[domestos]

The financial genius who kept interest rates down to only 15%

 

[Sue]

Was he the cunt who claimed millions unemployed was a price worth paying for getting down inflation ?

no, that was a different tory twunt, norman lamont

Potato, pota-to.

 

[Spymaster]

I thought he was long dead.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I thought he was long dead.

appearances can be deceptive...

 

[WouldBe]

Sad news, that a man like him gets to die peacefully of old age.

Should have been poleaxed.

 

[domestos]

Thatcher's lickspittles from the 80s are certainly doing their bit to widen the life expectancy gap between rich and poor.

 

[Nylock]

I thought he was a member of John Major's grey cabinet but I just checked and he'd gone by then.
The papers'll be full of sychopancy tomorrow.

The usual suspects will be completely insufferable. The hagiography may go on for days in some of the rags.

 

[Ax^]

Should have been poleaxed.

would not touch the cunt with said pole

 

[toblerone3]

Climate change denier, overseer of the great sell-off and all-round arsewipe Nigel Lawson has shuffled off this mortal coil and joined Thatcher in whatever circle of hell she inhabits.

BBC Article

Couldn't find the Climate Change denial bit in that BBC obituary. Why did they leave that bit out?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

A widely detested peddler of bogus economic theories that he used as cover to screw the poor, Lawson would endorse planet-destroying scientific falsehoods in his senility. He died in obscurity after people had mostly stopped listening to his incoherent ramblings.

He had nice hair.

Was that the BBC Obit?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

There are a few left from Thatcher cabinets. Major, Portillo, Tebbit, Clarke, Hurd, Hessletine, Lamont, Baker.

Fucking hell there are loads left.

 

[Nylock]

Couldn't find the Climate Change denial bit in that BBC obituary. Why did they leave that bit out?

I couldn't possibly imagine...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Big brexiteer, then had to move back to the U.K. from Provence as the French wouldn’t give him residency. Genius.

 

[Pickman's model]

Big brexiteer, then had to move back to the U.K. from Provence as the French wouldn’t give him residency. Genius.

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What have we done to deserve him?

 

[brogdale]

 

[Smokeandsteam]

It’s worth remembering as the tributes pour in what it is in Lawson’s career that we’ll be asked to admire: the introduction of monetarism, the control of inflation rather than economic growth as the key economic measure, privatisation of nationally owned public services, the financialisation of society with money worship saturating itself into every facet of life, the destruction of manufacturing and economic production and a historic collapse of the balance of payments.

Lawson - who will be remembered as a great supporter of entrepreneurship but was just a journalist and never created a single job himself - dying should be a moment to reflect on just how badly Britain fucked up. Dumping a national economy for the half baked theories of Hayek and Friedman was a disaster from which we still suffer.

I’m going to take a wild guess that the coverage won’t even mention it…

 

[Pickman's model]

It’s worth remembering as the tributes pour in what it is in Lawson’s career that we’ll be asked to admire: the introduction of monetarism, the control of inflation rather than economic growth as the key economic measure, privatisation of nationally owned public services, the financialisation of society with money worship saturating itself into every facet of life, the destruction of manufacturing and economic production and a historic collapse of the balance of payments.

Lawson - who will be remembered as a great supporter of entrepreneurship but was just a journalist- dying should be a moment to reflect on just how badly Britain fucked up. Dumping a national economy for the half baked theories of Hayek and Friedman was a disaster from which we still suffer.

I’m going to take a wild guess that the coverage won’t even mention it…

not to mention pissing away all the tax receipts from north sea oil and and gas on tax reductions rather than spending them on investment or developing a sovereign fund like the norwegians have

 

[brogdale]

It’s worth remembering as the tributes pour in what it is in Lawson’s career that we’ll be asked to admire: the introduction of monetarism, the control of inflation rather than economic growth as the key economic measure, privatisation of nationally owned public services, the financialisation of society with money worship saturating itself into every facet of life, the destruction of manufacturing and economic production and a historic collapse of the balance of payments.

Lawson - who will be remembered as a great supporter of entrepreneurship but was just a journalist- dying should be a moment to reflect on just how badly Britain fucked up. Dumping a national economy for the half baked theories of Hayek and Friedman was a disaster from which we still suffer.

I’m going to take a wild guess that the coverage won’t even mention it…

Good post; and all done with an urgency that suggested they never believed that their neoliberal project would roll on, uninterrupted, for the next 34 years.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

not to mention pissing away all the tax receipts from north sea oil and and gas on tax reductions rather than spending them on investment or developing a sovereign fund like the norwegians have

Yes. The list is endless. None of it will be mentioned.

 

[Fez909]

joined Thatcher in whatever circle of hell she inhabits

 

[TopCat]

He was a cunt. I hope the death was prolonged and painful.