Fisking Polly Toynbee – Part Two
Stop trying to do good by stealth,
Well, that presupposes that governments can do good. I would say the evidence for that is pretty shaky at least. After all, if governments can do good that would tend to imply that the more they do the better things get. I would say the evidence of the Soviet Union compared to the United States would indicate the opposite.
But I guess I see her meaning here. She would like Blair to stop pretending that he's all in favour of low taxes while on the sly stuffing state services with gold and, instead, say it as it is. And I have to say, on this at least, I agree with her. There is nothing constructive in ambiguity.
...stop running against public services
Oh Geez. What can this mean? You cannot argue that Tony Blair is against the NHS and state education. Remember "24 hours to save the NHS" and "Education, education, education."? For Heaven's sake.
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