Frantic 🇬🇧 + 🇪🇺Mar 31, 2024

Originally from the bird site, source not known. Also did you know that in the case of the water privatisation debts were taken on by the taxpayer.

"Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson did incalculable damage to this country, selling off all the assets at a loss to their mates. Cutting taxes for the rich to nothing. Creating massive unemployment and inflation.

RT if you know they're the villains."

#GTTO #NigelLawson #ThatchersDead #ToryScum #Tories

SubtleBlade ⚔️Oct 13, 2023

#PrivateEquity’s #SweetheartDeal with #TaxAuthorities was always a ‘charade’

This costs the #Treasury around £420m a year. That’s enough to pay the salary of 16,000 #nurses.

Documents released to #GoodLawProject show how #NormanLamont and #NigelLawson pushed #InlandRevenue officials to give #PrivateEquityFundManagers #SpecialTreatment.

#ToryPoliciesInAction #Tax #ToryCorruption

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayApr 12, 2023

For those of you who missed the boost yesterday, here's @sjwrenlewis masterly critique of the reputation of #NigelLawson.

SWL argues that there is actual a significant continuity between the #economic mistakes - based on intellectual arrogance - wrought by Lawson & the arrogance of #LizTruss and others in the #Tories of today.

This is a very useful corrective to quite a few laudatory Lawson obits that have appeared!

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-poor-judgements-of-nigel-lawson.html

The poor judgements of Nigel Lawson

  For someone who has been described as the “economic brain of Thatcherism”, it was inevitable that evaluations of his career would be ideo...

Eastender In Cymru WalesApr 9, 2023
You know many people are eulogising #NigelLawson now he's dead.
But if there's one fact that seems to sum up the man for me it's that he campaigned for Brexit ....then wanted to move to France
SubtleBlade ⚔️Apr 8, 2023
'#Labour is still in thrall to the #LowTax regime championed by my friend #NigelLawson - 'https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/08/labour-still-in-thrall-to-low-tax-regime-championed-by-my-friend-nigel-lawson
Labour is still in thrall to the low tax regime championed by my friend Nigel Lawson

The key legacy of the former chancellor, who died last week, was to put the fear of god into the party’s leaders

The Guardian
Nick@NorthLondonApr 6, 2023
Here's an interesting fact.
#NigelLawson did National Service in the Royal Navy. Rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and captained *checks notes* HMS Gay Charger
One of the Gay Class of boats.
I'll just leave that here.
Jeremy GoochApr 6, 2023
#NigelLawson and his toxic #climate legacy. https://thelead.uk/nigel-lawsons-toxic-legacy
Nigel Lawson's toxic climate legacy

How Thatcher's chancellor made climate denial a Tory value.

Yorkshire BylinesApr 6, 2023

Nigel Lawson as chancellor – hero or villain? 'We all sign on' can be formed from the letters 'Nigel Lawson', John Cole examines the legacy of the man who some say ‘sold’ Britain

#NigelLawson https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/nigel-lawson-as-chancellor-hero-or-villain/

Nigel Lawson as chancellor - hero or villain?

John Cole examines the legacy of the man who some say ‘sold’ Britain

Yorkshire Bylines
Political Cartoon GalleryApr 5, 2023
Steve Bell on the death of #NigelLawson – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
openDemocracyApr 4, 2023

OPINION: Nigel Lawson’s economic ‘success’ was an oil-fuelled illusion.

Lawson’s legacy is of a climate sceptic indebted to Big Oil. Refusal to accept that is making the UK poorer.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nigel-lawson-legacy-big-oil-economic-boom-climate-lies/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#NigelLawson #climatechange #oil #economics #uk #Tories #UKpol #UKpolitics

Nigel Lawson’s ‘success’ was merely an oil-fuelled illusion

OPINION: Lawson’s legacy is of a climate sceptic indebted to Big Oil. Refusal to accept that is making the UK poorer

openDemocracy