How Britain Became So Rotten a State

nick cowen, 26 June 2012

By David Conway

Eamonn Butler is joint head of Britain’s premier libertarian think-tank, the Adam Smith Institute. In his very readable, well-informed book, The Rotten State of Britain, he  explains how rotten a state Britain turned during Labour’s thirteen-years in office that began with its election victory in 1997.

On the night that ended  seventeen years of Conservative rule, Labour party activists celebrated by dancing until dawn to the strains of their campaign song ‘Things will only get better’. In reality, as Butler shows, they were about to get progressively worse, if you’ll pardon the expression.

Read the rest at the Library of Law and Liberty Blog