Who Dares Wins Quotes

“Afterwards, when they went around the table discussing the government’s ‘achievements’, Clark’s answer was ‘that we have really succeeded in putting a lot of people out of work’. There was grim laughter at that, but he was absolutely serious. The unions, he thought, had been ‘disciplined by the fear of being put on the dole and this is a considerable, though brutal, achievement’. But apart from that, he could think of nothing else.”
― Dominic Sandbrook, Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

“As for the future, the Mirror was not optimistic. ‘If the 1980s are as awful as they predict,’ it thought, ‘the only people working at the end of them will be the experts forecasting unemployment for everyone else.”
― Dominic Sandbrook, Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982