Abstract
You show me prejudice and greed
And you show me how
I must learn to deal with this disease…
Things can only get, can only get
Things can only get better
Can only get better
(Extract from a popular song by D:Ream. Spending four weeks at number one on the UK singles chart in 1994, it was adopted by the Labour Party as their theme for the 1997 UK General Election)
Notes
1 Theresa May told the Conservatives they were regarded as the ‘nasty party’ by voters at their annual conference in 2002.
2 For a detailed historical account of the state's involvement with MG Rover, see Berkeley et al., Local Economy, 20(4) (Berkeley et al., 2004).