Word: basnett
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Laborites fumed. Chief among them was former Prime Minister James Callaghan, who called the budget "the meanest the country has had since 1931." Surveying the new excise taxes, David Basnett, general secretary of the General and Municipal Workers Union, snapped: "Workers who live in a cave-if they don't smoke, if they don't drink, and if they drive an electric car-might say they were coming out better." Even business was chary over Thatcher's plan, which will be especially painful in the short term...