Reply #16: He is obviously running against the 60s

[muriel_volestrangler]

There was no need to bring them up. He could have, for instance, talked about the 90s - more recent, and thus with more of an effect on today's situation. He could have talked about the 80s, and the huge encouragement of selfishness by Thatcher (the nearest he got to criticising this was "they know there is such a thing as society"). But instead he decided to slag off "a society of different lifestyles".

The frightening thing is not just that Michael Howard could have made this speech; so could Thatcher. Or Enoch Powell. Or George Bush. Or Joe McCarthy. I'll stop there with the comparisons - I could go further back in time.