Publisher's Synopsis
In his down-to-earth and lively style, Austin Mitchell, who experienced politics first-hand as a long-serving Labour MP for Grimsby, denounces the economic policy of the last three decades as 'a long march down Dead-End Street' - a neo-liberal experiment that has benefitted the rich and eroded the 'good society' with its welfare state and governments' commitment to the betterment of the people. He charts the development of a neo-liberal creed, market-driven and with governments devoted to efficiency, cost-cutting and austerity at the people's expense, and draws parallels between Thatcherism in the United Kingdom, Rogernomics in New Zealand, and all that came after them.
