Domestically, a higher profit share (facilitated
by wage restraint), and a more competitive exchange rate, were associated with a very bullish trend in business confidence and investment.
The education measures have been promised
by the Liberals as part of the benefits of
restraints on
wage and benefits for 9,600 unionized teachers.
But rather than buying into the rhetoric, the public merely seems to have learnt from the human misery inflicted
by Thatcherism, and accepted
wage restraint because they knew that the alternative was so much worse.
Actions aimed at the incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity, abasement of human dignity, and also propaganda of the exceptionality, superiority, or inferiority of individuals
by reason of their attitude to religion, national, or racial affiliation, if these acts have been committed in public or with the use of mass media, shall be punishable
by a fine in the amount of 500 to 800 minimum wages, or in the amount of the
wage or salary, or any other income of the convicted person for a period of five to eight months, or
by restraint of liberty for a term of up to three years, or
by deprivation of liberty for a term of two to four years.