Chapter 175: Country Girl
This is also normal, Alan Wilson does not believe that American citizens are extremely enthusiastic about Black Lives Matter, but politicians hype up similar issues and gag everyone's mouth with political correctness.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, who were present in the United States at the same time, adopted a similar policy, fighting an all-out attack. But in fact, this chicken-blood model with huge sequelae not only caused an extremely negative impact in the future, but also tossed Britain and the United States enough at that time.
When Ronald Reagan was in office, the U.S. economy was actually not very good, and it was like a roller coaster up and down. Britain, on the other hand, was far less powerful than the United States, and there were massive protests almost during Margaret Thatcher's tenure.
Full privatization is tantamount to selling everything, and almost everything is included in the scope of privatization. The first is the privatization of small enterprises and small groups, in which the government owns some or most of the shares.
This was followed by natural monopolies, such as telecommunications, energy, and aviation, which were privatized with the sale of the BT Group of Companies. The government also sold off a large number of state-owned shares in post-war public housing.
At first it was sold to the current occupants of the house, and later to everyone. At a time when privatization is in full swing, the United Kingdom alone has a third of the world's privatized assets.
Despite the marked reduction in the state sector and Margaret Thatcher's promise that the state would no longer be a burden to the people, government spending as a percentage of GDP in Britain, which had received a lot of privatization funds, remained largely unchanged from the Labour days, because the Conservative government had to pay huge amounts of unemployment benefits, which had never been done before.
At the same time that the Soviet Union had moved from Andropov to the head of the map, the number of unemployed in Britain had reached 3.2 million, more than twice the highest since records began in Britain, which had been the highest in Europe during Thatcher's tenure.
Britain has put all the money from the privatization of its industries into the hole of unemployment benefits.
Although Margaret Thatcher was re-elected many times, each time she won was not pretty, but only a relative majority. Thanks also to Harold Wilson, many of Labour's traditional Labour supporters have drifted in favor of other parties.
But even so, the rift within Britain has reached its peak in nearly a hundred years.
Britain and the United States fought a set of seven wounds at the same time, and one came to hurt himself before hurting others, fortunately, the opponent of the same period was also a once-in-a-century existence, and the Soviet Union, which had a map head and Khitans, could always show a more chaotic state than Britain and the United States.
Margaret, who was not yet Margaret Thatcher at this time, entered a world she had never imagined.
I didn't know that in the eyes of Alan Wilson, who invited him to the party, there was nothing special about her at all, but she didn't show it on her face.
"I said Alan, this girl is like a country girl, there is nothing attractive about it at all." Henry shook his wine glass and looked at the young Iron Lady, with a hint of contempt on his face, "Isn't it inappropriate to let her come to the gathering of our elites?" ”
"I just invited it casually, I didn't think she would really come!" Alan Wilson tilted his head, looked at Margaret, who was listening to the conversation in the corner, and asked, as if remembering something, "Henry, what do you think of the women in our civil service?" ”
"They're too much of a drag to be like us." Henry smiled slightly, "They treat things differently, they are too emotional, and they are not as rational as us." It is not yet clear that you will either chew your tongue or shed tears. ”
"Is that so?" Alan Wilson agreed, "Splashing without shedding tears is very uncharming." ”
"Yes, women have too many prejudices and always judge things in general. The so-called thinking is a road! Henry sneered with a helpless look, "I always think that I am very sensible, and I expect you to listen to her." ”
"Wow, that's insightful." Alan Wilson agreed, "But Henry, in England like ours...... In democracies, women's votes are worth as much as men's votes. I said, what if, one day in the future, there was a female prime minister in the British Empire? ”
"I can only hope that she doesn't mess things up." Henry replied without thinking, "Of course we hope that this possibility will never appear, otherwise it will be a heavy blow to the civilization and order of the entire empire." ”
Alan Wilson did not answer, if this civilization and order refers to civil servants, then as soon as Margaret Thatcher comes to power, she will inevitably be hit hard! Thinking of this, Alan Wilson suddenly glanced back at Margaret and said softly, "I haven't driven a domestic car yet." ”
"What did you say?" Henry, who was clinking glasses with his friends next to him, suddenly turned his head and asked puzzled.
"Nothing! It's still evocative about everything during the day. Alan Wilson took the initiative to talk to the secretary of the Treasury Department and said, "I'll go around, you guys talk slowly." ”
If the country girl in front of her really becomes the prime minister of the British Empire in the future? Historically, then, civil servants will inevitably have to fight a war with political parties.
As for the outcome of this infighting, historically speaking, it should have been the defeat of the civil servants, the authority of which was greatly weakened, and almost became the mascot of the political party.
This is not good news for Alan Wilson, who is motivated to improve, because at his current age, he himself is sure to be caught up.
Attributing it to the total collapse of civil servants, Alan Wilson felt that the problem still lay in the loss of the colonies, taking the 100,000 civil servants in British India as an example, and the local civil servants were only more than 200,000. The civil servants of British India were the huge backbone of the civil service.
When you run a colony, you can't send these elected politicians. Even if it is sent, how many governorship positions does a colony have for the congressional lords to sit?
The politician was nothing more than a distant, existential mascot to the civil servants of the colonies. Knew that politicians existed, but never saw them.
Moreover, not all colonies were governors by politicians, and many colonies chose military men as governors.
Once the vast colony is lost, the local civil servants and politicians will be completely at a disadvantage. There is no support from foreign colleagues at all.
Were there any other important colonies under Margaret Thatcher? The Falklands where there are more sheep than people in the fight with Argentina?
Just like now, Prime Minister Attlee wants to give up British India, but Alan Wilson dares to assure that there is no such idea in British India, and the British Indian Master has done a good job and does not want to return to China at all.
The existence of the colony is one aspect, and Alan Wilson still feels that appropriate guidance can be taken to test whether Margaret has such unrealistic ideas now.
"Margaret! How does it feel? Alan Wilson, with his trademark hypocritical expression, approached the domestic car in his eyes.
"They're talking too stiffly." Margaret said with a hint of excitement, "But it was an interesting experience that expanded my knowledge. ”
Alan Wilson certainly knew in his heart that the few colleagues sitting here were not at all inhibited. It's a stranger to this country girl, and when she sees a stranger here, she may be annoyed in her heart.
What can a group of men talk about when they sit together? Don't look at the national cornerstone of Whitehall, and the things we talk about are all related to the next three roads. Now a stranger is sitting here, everyone can't talk about Fengyue, only about elegance, how can we do it?
Fortunately, Alan Wilson was empathetic and fully understood the embarrassment of several colleagues in the Indian Affairs Department, which attracted Margaret's attention, "Contrary to what people think, our usual work is very boring, take me as an example, I am dealing with paper and pen every day. ”
Alan Wilson stepped back into the role of life coach, attracting Margaret's attention, causing the unwelcome country girl to turn, and the hand hidden behind her back made a vague apologetic gesture to her colleague.
Since he came to find himself, he had to deal with the Iron Lady's question well, and when he encountered a sharp question, Alan Wilson was inconvenient to answer, so he compared it with another question.
I have to say that the rich knowledge reserve of keyboard warriors allowed Alan Wilson to find the initiative, and even finally discussed interpersonal relationships.
In just a few sentences, Alan Wilson has already judged that Margaret's interpersonal relationships, especially with women, should be extremely bad, and the relationship with men is not much better, of course, compared with women's relationships, it is quite passable.
Sure enough, it is worthy of the people who have been closed to the coffin, and what Alan Wilson knows is that he has a bad relationship with the Queen, a bad relationship with citizens, and a bad relationship with his children.
Margaret Thatcher, like Reagan, was a senior who understood the king, and her opponents were always loud and welcoming, but her supporters were particularly supportive, and she was never recognized as a popular person.
It's just that the era when the two of them caught up still had the cost of tossing, and the era of knowing the king was more tragic, and there were no great opponents like Getu and Khitan, and the domestic demographic structure had changed unfavorably for the local whites.
"If you're interested in politics, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future, so don't be too late for a girl to go out." Alan Wilson said with a gentlemanly demeanor, "I'll send you back to school, do you live in school or go home." ”
The future Iron Lady got into Alan Wilson's car, and it wasn't entirely uneventful in the process.
Prime Minister Alan Wilson drove the car to his home, which startled Margaret, and just when his heart was uneasy, Alan Wilson went into the room and came out again, "Sorry, take some things, and send you home now." ”
The reason for the deliberate trip home is simple, to let Margaret know that this is her home, so that if she has the opportunity to do so in the future, she will let her guard down on it.