They threw millions of people out of stable and comparatively well-paid work into infrequent, badly paid temporary jobs or trapped them in towns suddenly bereft of any reason to exist and with no jobs to apply for (intriguingly, this is a position that Norman Tebbit, a Thatcherite outrider interviewed in the book, seems to have some sympathy with).

ECONOMIST: Unfairly, by its snobbish fellow citizens

But the parties have rarely produced clear policy platforms that would give voters (as opposed to special interests) a positive reason to support them, or have been bereft of leaders capable of delivering on policy proposals, or both.

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