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You know what’s the definition of madness ?
This?
Takaichi, who says her hero is Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister, offers a starker vision for change than Koizumi and is potentially more disruptive.
An advocate of late premier Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” strategy to boost the economy with aggressive spending and easy monetary policy, she has previously criticised the Bank of Japan’s interest rate increases.
I mean, I guess there’s nothing necessarily wrong with both having Thatcher as your hero and adopting said policy, but Thatcher was a deficit hawk and advocated for tight fiscal policy, which is kind of the opposite of this.
At the risk of sounding crass, I can easily believe ‘this woman was PM ahead of her time, she’s my hero’ is as far as the inspiration could stretch.
Could be. Liz Truss said something similar, and she’s also very much on the “loose” side of things
When Liz Truss was asked at the very first Conservative leadership hustings in Leeds which of the party’s past prime ministers she most admired, she had a very definite answer: Margaret Thatcher.
As Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies pointed out just last week, her plans to increase the national debt in order to lower taxes “could not be further from Thatcher who…took the very unpopular decision to raise taxes in 1981 to manage deficit and inflation”.
Rather, the economics expert said, such a policy had “clear echoes of Ted Heath in 1973”.
Conservative MP Robert Jenrick expressed a similar concern. “It is antithesis of Thatcherism,” he said, “to be going around making unfunded tax pledges merely to win a leadership contest.”
Eh, she’ll probably just be Abe 2.0, but without the exhortations for people to fuck more.
