{"id":19768,"date":"2013-03-23T20:31:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19768"},"modified":"2013-03-23T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T20:32:26","slug":"if-as-related-by-neil-kinnock-of-a-conservative-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/23\/if-as-related-by-neil-kinnock-of-a-conservative-government\/","title":{"rendered":"If &#8230;. as related by Neil Kinnock of a Conservative government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Kinnock <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Neil_Kinnock\" target=\"_blank\">said this in a speech in Bridgend<\/a>, Glamorgan, on Tuesday 7 June 1983:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Margaret Thatcher is re-elected as prime minister on Thursday, I warn you. I warn you that you will have pain \u2014 when healing and relief depend upon payment. I warn you that you will have ignorance \u2014 when talents are untended and wits are wasted, when learning is a privilege and not a right. I warn you that you will have poverty \u2014 when pensions slip and benefits are whittled away by a government that won\u2019t pay in an economy that can\u2019t pay. I warn you that you will be cold \u2014 when fuel charges are used as a tax system that the rich don\u2019t notice and the poor can\u2019t afford.<\/p>\n<p>I warn you that you must not expect work \u2014 when many cannot spend, more will not be able to earn. When they don\u2019t earn, they don\u2019t spend. When they don\u2019t spend, work dies. I warn you not to go into the streets alone after dark or into the streets in large crowds of protest in the light. I warn you that you will be quiet \u2014 when the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient. I warn you that you will have defence of a sort \u2014 with a risk and at a price that passes all understanding. I warn you that you will be home-bound \u2014 when fares and transport bills kill leisure and lock you up. I warn you that you will borrow less \u2014 when credit, loans, mortgages and easy payments are refused to people on your melting income.<\/p>\n<p>If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It resonates even more\u00a0powerfully\u00a030 years later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/22\/the-only-thing-the-budget-really-forecasts-is-that-labour-will-inherit-an-economic-disaster\/comment-page-1\/#comment-634889\" target=\"_blank\">Hat tip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Kinnock said this in a speech in Bridgend, Glamorgan, on Tuesday 7 June 1983: If Margaret Thatcher is re-elected as prime minister on Thursday,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/23\/if-as-related-by-neil-kinnock-of-a-conservative-government\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}