As has been widely suspected, it turns out that some people on the Tory right get sexual thrills from inflicting misery on the rest of the population, as the Young Britons' Foundation has admitted in a particularly cringe worthy poster:
"You can see the English psyche collapsing under the weight of the illicit pleasures it has been enjoying -- the permissiveness, the consumption, the goodies. It's all false -- tinsel and froth ... And now we have got to advance in a different way. Mrs. Thatcher speaks to this 'new course'. She speaks to something else, deep in the English psyche: its masochism. The need which the English seem to have to be ticked off by Nanny and sent to bed without pudding. The calculus by which every good summer has to be paid for by twenty bad winters. The Dunkirk Spirit -- the worse off we are, the better we behave. She didn't promise us the giveaway society. She said, iron times; back to the wall; stiff upper lip; get moving; get to work; dig in. Stick by the old, tried verities, the wisdom of 'Old England'. The family has kept society together; live by it. Send the women back to the hearth. Get the men out on to the Northwest Frontier. Hard times - followed, much later, by a return to the Good Old Days. She asked you for a long leash - not one, but two and three terms. By the end, she said, I will be able to redefine the nation in such a way that you will all, once again, for the first time, since the Empire started to go down the tube, feel what it is like to be part of Great Britain Unlimited. You will be able, once again, to send our boys 'over there', to fly the flag, to welcome back the fleet. Britain will be Great again." - Stuart Hall
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Great quote.
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