{"id":5334,"date":"2009-09-26T05:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2009-09-26T05:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T05:19:00","slug":"dr-d-rips-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/dr-d-rips-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. D rips Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Characteristically ascerbic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps this would not be so serious a matter if the British economy were not a so-called service economy. It has been such ever since Margaret Thatcher solved our chronic industrial relations problem by the simple expedient of getting rid of industry. This certainly worked, and perhaps was inevitable in the circumstances, but it was necessary to find some other way of making our way in the world. 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