When John Lydon sang in 1976 that anarchy was coming to the UK, he wasn't far wrong.Genuine anarchism (a noble political tradition) certainly didn't descend on Britain in the wake of punk rock and Margaret Thatcher's general election victory three years later.But since 1979, the consensus that the British state should empower individuals through social security (such as the council tenancy Lydon sneered at in Anarchy in the UK) has been steadily unpicked by Thatcher and her successors a triumph for laissez-faire anti-statism, if not quite anarchy itself.
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