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Milk Snatching And The Nasty Party.modernityblog | August 9, 2010| Tags: Anne Milton, Cameron, Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher, Nasty Party, Tories | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4XPG-27T
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There is a very common tactic in politics, if something is moderately controversial then the political party will normally get a junior politician or official to float the idea and see how people react.
If there is sizeable public opposition to the particular idea being floated then the political party can back off or simply claim it was an intemperate remark and not really their true view on the subject.
So it is with Anne Milton’s propose removal of free milk for under fives.
Whilst it might seem uncontroversial to American or European readers the idea of taking milk from the mouths of very young children has a certain resonance with public consciousness in Britain.
For many years Margaret Thatcher, who actually did take the milk away, was labelled the Milk Snatcher, and rightly so.
Even Cameron’s only perceptible skill, PR, let him down in this instance and people are coming to realise that beneath the woolly words, shades of Blairism and talk of the “Big Society” lingers the Nasty Party, just waiting to get out.
