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Article: Class. (Great Britain) (special issue: 35th Anniversary 1955-1990)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 5, 1990
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BRITAlN, according to most of the fashionable books on the subject, continues to suffer dreadfully from an antiquated class system which divides the community and holds back the economy. Visiting American journalists of liberal persuasion shake their heads over such a needless element in the country's troubles; it is, they think, one of the principal features distinguishing Britain from the United States. This has become the received view. Where they start to disagree, partly because the kind of people they meet in Britain disagree, is about the effect of Margaret Thatcher.
There would probably be a consensus that Mrs. Thatcher, a meritocrat of lower-middle-class ...