The Nanny State Made Me by Stuart Maconie

Author:Stuart Maconie [Maconie, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781529102413
Google: AIFQDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1529102413
Publisher: Ebury Press
Published: 2019-06-26T23:00:00+00:00

I didn’t know, though looking back I think I could feel it somehow, that when I first walked into Wigan’s very own ‘grey Lubyanka’ on King Street, Brocol House, the ‘sea change’ old sailor Jim Callaghan detected was happening right here on our shores in Wigan. A new mood was abroad within Toryism and it was emanating from a figure who now seems ludicrous but whose influence still lingers miasmically in the bloodstream of our system. Keith Joseph was a baronet who’d inherited his wealth and title (without lifting a finger) from his father, the head of Bovis construction. For many years under Macmillan and Heath, he had been merely a jobbing right-wing cabinet stooge. But, unfortunately for Britain, at some point in the early 1970s he read a couple of books. One was Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, which is, depending on point of view again, a bracing anti-socialist tract or an opiniated screed of guff masquerading as analysis. Joseph was of the former persuasion. In the cartoon version of Joseph’s life (not currently in production, I imagine), after reading Hayek he’ll be seen wobbling around goofily with twittering birdies and hearts circling his austere head. ‘All my life, I thought I was a Conservative,’ he gushed. ‘Now I know that I have never been one. The scales have dropped from my eyes.’

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