You’re whitewashing, because you’re implying that she had good intentions. She did not. She was not misled by propaganda, she knew what she was doing and what the implications would be.
It was a Thatcher-era thing, and despite being evil and wrong about nearly everything, she at least thought what she was doing would help normal people.
That’s a pretty clear sign being apologetic right here.
Oh no, she did not think it would help normal people.
Just think about what kind of system you’re describing: local people owning shares of their utilities. That’s ownership by the populace. So, you know, public ownership. Like the system already in place.
The story you’re describing is just an attempt to sell redistribution to people who are not willing to think. Even in the best case, this would be a giant rent-seeking scheme for banks and pension funds. And we’re definitely not living through the best case here.
Stop trying to whitewash politicians. Especially not the ones who showed time and time again that they don’t give a shit about the literal survival of anyone poorer than them.
And that’s just the direct costs to the police. The indirect stuff, supply chain issues, waiting times, etc. aren’t even included.
It’s like always with right wing/proto fascist politics: optics over function.
No. That’s the official number.
The “controls” are extremely sparse in reality. So they’re only getting the honest refugees and stupid illegals. The former shouldn’t be rejected, the latter wouldn’t have caused much harm anyway.
But Germany caught 460 illegal migrants, deporting them illegally back over the border and that for a mere 80mio € within about 10 months!
(No exaggeration, BTW)
Are you by any chance familiar with degrees of murder, involuntary manslaughter and insanity?
If I think I’m defending myself, despite no reason to do so, I can’t claim self defense. You can’t argue, that your neighbor certainly didn’t threaten you in any way, but he sometimes looked really weird, so it’s self defense to kill him.
I’m not even sure, what exactly you’re trying to argue here?
It seems like you made impressions on yourself, because that’s completely besides anything I wrote.
Doing something bad and knowing that it’s bad, is bad. That should be very very obvious.
You’re building yourself an entire terracotta army worth of strawmen here.