SIR – David Cameron sings the praises of Margaret Thatcher yet they are as different as chalk and cheese.
He advocates a ‘Big Society’. In the eighties she told Woman’s Own: “There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women and there are families.”
He is increasing the role of local government as a provider of services, which she, when Prime Minister, reduced.
In interviews, David Cameron reaffirms his pre-election pledge to reduce emissions and build a greener, cleaner environment, whereas Mrs Thatcher, in a speech at the Scottish Conservative Party conference in 1982, said: “It is exciting to have a real crisis on your hands (the Falklands campaign) when you have spent half your life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment.”
Apparently opposites do attract.
David Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford
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