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Where There's Greed: Margaret Thatcher and the Betrayal of Britain's Future Paperback – 3 May 1989

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Mainstream Publishing
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3 May 1989
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1851582339
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978-1851582334
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mainstream Publishing (3 May 1989)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1851582339
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1851582334

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Paul Simister

The man with the broken crystal ball

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 November 2013

The book is strangely prophetic as deregulation is partly responsible for the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008.

I believe Margaret Thatcher did more good than harm although her governments did make some mistakes.

The country needed her at the time. In the seventies Britain was in a mess and her reforms helped us to recover, even if it's a truth that the left don't want to hear. Unfortunately subsequent leaders have lacked vision and too often give in to the easy options.

Of course, the author himself would go on to be the man responsible for determining how financial services would be regulated when the Labour party was elected into government in 1997, 2003 and 2007.

If only he could have seen the future so clearly when he was in power and encouraged the party in the City of London to continue whilst, after initially being a loyal disciple of prudence, unleashing a wave of state spending in a time of apparent prosperity when Keynesian theory suggests he should have been building up reserves.

Of course, he thought he had abolished Tory boom and bust and there would be no more bubbles that could burst.

You may be interested to read Gordon is a Moron: The Definitive and Objective Analysis of Gordon Brown's Decade as Chancellor of the Exchequer . A book written and published before the credit crunch.

Balance comes from reading both.

About my book reviews - I aim to be a tough reviewer because the main cost of a book is not the money to buy it but the time needed to read it and absorb the key messages. 3 stars is worthwhile.

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salopian

spot on, gord.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 March 2012

I see the propaganda arm of the right wing blue rinse brigade are having a field day here, giving a thoroughly good book by one of the giants of recent political history one star reviews in order to undermine it`s credibility. Ho,hum, so predictable. Most thinking people have woken up to the fact that Britain has been left in ruins by the decade or so of wilfully reckless politics that thatcher and her far right cronies inflicted upon this country. The destruction of the post war consensus, the destruction of british manufacturing industry, the break up and sell-of for private gain of industries and utilities you and me used to own. I grew up in the sixties and everywhere there was hope, optimism and the taking for granted that we could never go back to the the dreadful spectre of life in pre ww2 britain, a better future was there for the taking. Then there was Thatcher. We are left with a divided, crime-ridden wasteland of a country where corporate vultures pick over the bones of what`s left of our economy and culture and ordinary, decent people who`s only aspiration is to lead a family life, find and keep a well-paid job and salvage some hope for their children`s future can go and pick over the leavings. Don`t listen to the one-star propagandists, Gord did all right, both with this spot-on book and with his handling of the british economy and the banking crisis.

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Rob

Gordon is a moron

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 October 2010

"The book tells how a government with unique opportunities to plan for the 21st century wasted ten years and £120 billion in pursuit of the social and economic doctrines of the 18th"

For a bloke who torched £1bn+ he speaks a whole lot of drivel. Is Britain better for 13 years of Labour rule? The balance sheet, he say, "no".

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Omar

Surprisingly Good!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 August 2010

An excellent critique on the woman who freed up the markets in the late 80s that led to the recent financial crisis.

I don't like the man but at least he'll be joining the party when Thacher dies.

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Mr. M. J. Storer

lies more lies and statistics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2010

Devastatingly poor piece of fiction from the worst Prime Minister in British history. Brown struggles to understandand basic economics, having over the last 12 years ruined the British economy. Therefore any work by Brown which critisises Margeret Thatcher, widley accepted by mentally stable Britains as the greatest post war Prime Minister can't be taken seriously.

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Mr. Peter H. Gompertz

Serial fantasist scribbles away

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 January 2010

Unelected Prime Minister not fit to lick the shoes of the subject of this fantasy who happens to be the best Prime Minister since Winston Churchill who was the best. Mr Brown get an A+ for self delusion.

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Biffo

Fantasy Novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2010

Fantasy novel from the greatest fantasist of them all - Gordon Brown. Turgid prose - couldn't recommend it.

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