Dr David Starkey

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TRIGGERnometry · The British State Hates its Own People - Dr David Starkey · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

The same policies, prices and incomes, boards, the nationalised industries, all of that stuff, Keynesian economics and so on, the determination to maintain full employment even with feather bedding, failing nationalised industries, all of that.

continued, whoever was in power.

And it was only after Edward Heath's defeat in the elections, 73, 74, that you get Keith Joseph coming along and saying, I've called myself a conservative.

I haven't been.

I've sat in Conservative cabinets who've done nothing Conservative.

And you get that reinvention of, well, it wasn't, unfortunately, what they invent, what he and Margaret Thatcher invent isn't really a Conservative party at all.

They're Gladstonian liberals with, you know, Manchester School of Economics, the old Manchester School, the good Manchester School, not Burnham S. But at least you get a difference as then an actual...

There's actually a political debate in Britain.

And unfortunately, what happened in 2010 is that Cameron and Osborne, and it's easy to see why.

You look at William Hague, you look at those terrible years in which Blair just ran rings around.

And they decided if you can't beat them, you join them.

But that, of course, means you've got an albatross.

hung around your neck every time Bettenoch gets up in the House and sort of says, look at the number of illegal crossings.

All Starmer needs to do is, oh, well, the relevant legislation you passed, and there were even more illegal crossings when you were there than we have now.

And what I do not understand

unless Badenoch is so frightened that half the party, half the parliamentary party, will leave and join the Lib Dems, which I think may well be the reason.

She has never explained

why the Conservative Party got it so badly wrong.

What she's done, interestingly, is take a tip from you, which is probably a bad idea.

And she said, the only reason that the Conservatives got it wrong was because I wasn't leading them.

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