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I know a union man who has been saving a cigar and a bottle of Champagne for this very occasion, he'll be a happy man today...
If you or your parents were working class in the 80's you'll understand why.
 
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Know what you mean brother in law rang me

me you know that bottle of whiskey I've been saving since the strikes

yeah , no your kidding me serious

yep stroke

Shes a goner
 
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There's street parties planned up and down the whole of Scotland. She decimated our country, gave us the poll tax first and was hated.

R.I.P Rest In Purgatory.
 
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There's street parties planned up and down the whole of Scotland. She decimated our country, gave us the poll tax first and was hated.

R.I.P Rest In Purgatory.

The parties across liverpool this weekend will be superb she ruined our city!
 
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Edinburgh Castle are planning the first ever 21 gun salute for a deceased leader......aimed at the coffin.
 
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If you or your parents were working class in the 80's you'll understand why.

I get the feeling that I might be in a minority here, but if you grew up in the 70's, whatever class you were, you might remember the alternative?

Powercuts, the 3 day week, strikes all the time, rampant inflation, rubbish piling up the streets, the chancellor having to go to the IMF with a begging bowl because the country couldn't pay its bills.

Remember she was elected 3 times, and never lost an election. I'm not a big fan of labelling people with some "class" tag, but large numbers of "working class" people (whatever that means) voted for her over and over again.

She was also the last politician that I can remember who actually said what she believed. Agree or disagree, what you saw was what you got. We could do with a bit more of that.

So I'll be wearing a black tie tomorrow, and if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss my @55.
 
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Thatcher may have gone, but her pernicious ideology lives on, and many of the problems that dog Britain today are an inheritance of her reign , such as the lack of affordable housing, and the divide and rule politics that she adeptly fostered to play working people off against each other in order to maintain her power.

I don't hate the woman, and I felt sad to hear of her passing, but I hate what she stood for, and will continue to do so for as long as I live.

Thatcherism is a bit like Marmite - people tend to love it, or hate it - personally I despise it.
 
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I agree with ray she did rule with an iron fist, she also saw off the Argentinian invasion of the falklands, I doubt a lot of other prime ministers would have had the guts to do that.
 
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I agree with ray she did rule with an iron fist, she also saw off the Argentinian invasion of the falklands, I doubt a lot of other prime ministers would have had the guts to do that.


she never had a choice all her advisors forced that card on her she dithered like you wouldnt believe about the falklands
 
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Those who are spouting how wonderful she was is needing s reality check. She decimated our coal and steel Industries, now we have to import both, unemployment peaked at 3 million due to her policies and 2 boom and bust economical disasters were her fault. Remember the yuppies who lost all their money hurling themselves off high buildings!! Even her own party got rid of her in the end as a liability and an election loser. Then we got John Major.

The only ones to benefit were the Falkland Islanders and the already rich who got even more richer.

Up here she used Scotland to experiment with her policies because we didn't vote for her she had nothing to lose. We got the poll tax and steel closures first!!
 
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I get the feeling that I might be in a minority here, but if you grew up in the 70's, whatever class you were, you might remember the alternative?

Powercuts, the 3 day week, strikes all the time, rampant inflation, rubbish piling up the streets, the chancellor having to go to the IMF with a begging bowl because the country couldn't pay its bills.

Remember she was elected 3 times, and never lost an election. I'm not a big fan of labelling people with some "class" tag, but large numbers of "working class" people (whatever that means) voted for her over and over again.

She was also the last politician that I can remember who actually said what she believed. Agree or disagree, what you saw was what you got. We could do with a bit more of that.

So I'll be wearing a black tie tomorrow, and if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss my @55.

One of our best!!!
 
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Those who are spouting how wonderful she was is needing s reality check. She decimated our coal and steel Industries, now we have to import both, unemployment peaked at 3 million due to her policies and 2 boom and bust economical disasters were her fault. Remember the yuppies who lost all their money hurling themselves off high buildings!! Even her own party got rid of her in the end as a liability and an election loser. Then we got John Major.

The only ones to benefit were the Falkland Islanders and the already rich who got even more richer.

Up here she used Scotland to experiment with her policies because we didn't vote for her she had nothing to lose. We got the poll tax and steel closures first!!

An economy built on unions and coal equals???
 
i heard she has only been in hell for a few hours and all ready shut down 3 furnaces!!.

from a mining family says i.

i think she should be buried in the Rhonda valley or Newcastle it may bring the decimated communities back together again!!
 
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am too young to really know anything about maggie and what she achieved. My next day neighbour was 80yrs old and she only listened to the news. And she used to have it so loud we could hear it in our house. Bt, as soon as maggie came on she would start screaming at the tv calling her an old cat. She hated her. Never did find ot why
 
I grew up in the 70's and 80's and at the time I absolutely despised the woman. I still despise her policies. I despise the conservative party, but by the same token I can't trust the labour party to run the country without hashing it up.

However, as has been said, there was no doubting her. If she said she was going to do something then she'd do it.

But I will never forgive her for selling off the family silver. imho it's a direct result of her policies that we're in the mess we are now.

If only we had a scottish pm with enough foresight to hang on to our gold reserves.

WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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I wish her a peaceful rest.
I didn't agree with all her policies but she showed the Trotskyist union leaders that they didn't run the country for their own benefit.

RIP Mrs Thatcher x
 
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She would have had the north crawling round in the gutter giving half the chance. Typical Tory scum. Rob from the poor and give to the rich. She ruined the industry in this country and left us more or less reliant on the banking industry. She covered up the deaths of 96 people and left families suffering for years over the lies told about them.
She put people in prison for trying to protect there jobs. She introduced the poll tax and again put people in prison for defying this!

Bye bye good riddance!
 
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Just a note ya'll if it gets anymore out if depth ill move post to the arms off the main public forums kiss kiss
 
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You blame that on her?

She set the wheels in motion so to speak. If she hadn't had ruined industry the banks wouldn't have the power they have today, they know there holding this country up and act accordingly
 
Move this Lee. It's better to have a debate like this in the Arms .Guaranteed to get too heated for public forum.
 
You don't remember the 'winter of discontent' then, everybody calls Maggie but I can't actually recall many other PM's giving us anything better. 3 day working week, unions striking to show they ruled, I don't think we can blame everything on her.
 
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She may have improved the south but she destroyed the north, people talk about 3 day working week. My dad was lucky to stay in work a lot of my uncles and my dads friends where not they had a 0 day working week.
 
No I don't, I was born in 1980

It was a pretty rubbish time to be honest, and it probably defined my political outlook. Have a google of the three day week, the winter of discontent or the history of labour relations of that time.

I know that Mrs T is a pretty divisive figure, but its not fair to judge her until you have a feel for what the alternatives were.
 
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I hate the woman. I watched everyone round me struggle to live whilst her and her mates enjoyed fine wine!
 
It was a pretty rubbish time to be honest, and it probably defined my political outlook. Have a google of the three day week, the winter of discontent or the history of labour relations of that time.

I know that Mrs T is a pretty divisive figure, but its not fair to judge her until you have a feel for what the alternatives were.

Liverpool stayed that way if not worse for most of the 80's/90's.
 
I think the 3 day week was brought about by a very strong union going on strike. This depleted the coal stocks which reduced the available electricity which gave industry a short time.
 
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Liverpool stayed that way if not worse for most of the 80's/90's.

I lived in Scotland and Wales as I was growing up, but never Merseyside, so I didn't see it. I seem to recall that you had a rampantly left wing council in the 80s. What was his name? Hatton?
 
Although he wasn't actually in charge just the public speaker, he was bent as a nine bob note!
 
John Hamilton was the council leader at the time had to google that couldn't remember his name.
 
I didn't like her or her policies, but at least she "humped" you from the front back then, not like the weasels in politics nowadays.
unions were always on a loser, not changed much today either, you just have to look at Bob The fireman, quaffing champers and eating caviar while preaching to his members about "solidarity".
 
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You just have to look at Bob The fireman, quaffing champers and eating caviar while preaching to his members about "solidarity".

Or Scargill in a legal battle with NUM over his "lifetime right" to live rent free in a £1.5m london apartment.

I despise almost all the current crop - politicians, union leaders, quangocrats etc. Professional scroungers, entitlement junkies (both sorts) and two-faced, serf-serving, career liars. I didn't think anyone could be worse than Brown, but Cameron and Osbourne are giving it a damned good try.

No one should be allowed to be an MP until they have done at least 10 years real work in a proper job, not as an activist or "researcher". And if you want to be health minister, you really should have worked as a doctor or nurse, if defence secretary you should be ex-services, business secretary should be a successful businessman etc.
 
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One of my claims to fame back in late 90s did a job at his bungalow in Barnsley told scragill
 
Or Scargill in a legal battle with NUM over his "lifetime right" to live rent free in a £1.5m london apartment.

I despise almost all the current crop - politicians, union leaders, quangocrats etc. Professional scroungers, entitlement junkies (both sorts) and two-faced, serf-serving, career liars. I didn't think anyone could be worse than Brown, but Cameron and Osbourne are giving it a damned good try.

No one should be allowed to be an MP until they have done at least 10 years real work in a proper job, not as an activist or "researcher". And if you want to be health minister, you really should have worked as a doctor or nurse, if defence secretary you should be ex-services, business secretary should be a successful businessman etc.

Ill second that! The political system needs a massive overhaul! There all as bad as each other! The never ending circle between the torys and labour is old and detrimental to the country!
 
She believed in her policies, however misguided and was a real politician.
She laid the foundations of the mess we are in today i.e an economy that relies on house prices to keep it bouyant and produces ziltch.
All the things that should be in public ownership like power, water and transport are run by faceless monopolies who increase prices at will.
As someone born in 1958 things were not as bad in the pre Thatcher time as some would paint it.
 
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I hate the woman. I watched everyone round me struggle to live whilst her and her mates enjoyed fine wine!

A lot like it is now after Blair and Brown destroyed the British economy.

In all honesty I wish that Labour had won the last election, it would then have been their task to dig us out of the mire of their making.
And no-one else to blame.
 
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3 day week....that doesn't sound too bad, 4 day weekend. Brilliant, I charge extra for weekend call outs!! 🙂 😉

I was born in 1978, and to a working class family. My dad bought our first home thanks to some of these Tory policies at the time, and then suffered with mental interest rates, and poll tax etc later on. It's never going to be a perfect world we live in.

At least she was a character. That's a hell of a lot more than you can say for most of todays politicians.
 
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At least she was a character. That's a hell of a lot more than you can say for most of todays politicians.

Yep. Only Boris Johnson left who you could call a real character. And I can't make my mind up whether he's a genius or an idiot. I suspect its a bit of both.
 
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Or Scargill in a legal battle with NUM over his "lifetime right" to live rent free in a £1.5m london apartment.

Good old Brother Arthur, he and his ilk sealed the fate of the unions while feathering their own nests.
True Socialists until they became rich and powerful then incited their 'brothers' to strike and starve, did they follow suit, no way.
 
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I seem to remember paying 15-16% interest on my mortgage then.
 
But of course your mortgage was £150 a month when rents were £250 then LOL

Mine was about that - we paid £18,500 for our first flat, which was lovely until the '87 hurricane blew the roof off, and we had to move in with the in-laws. Longest 10 weeks of my life.
 
But of course your mortgage was £150 a month when rents were £250 then LOL
Not far off but even that nearly bankrupt us,in fact if the wife hadn't been working we would definitely been out of te house after a few months.
 
That evil woman destroyed the lives of millions of ordinary working class families. Only the rich got richer and the rest of us living North of Watford were made to suffer.

A character?!!!! Satan personified more like.

Her "greatest" achievement was in fact New Labour. After she was kicked out by her own party we had Blair and Brown copying her policies. I remember both of them inviting her to no 10 for advice. Can you imagine a Labour Prime minister inviting a former Tory Prime minister to tea and asking for advice? That's what they two did and her policies lived on long after she was gone.

She is hated up here. Despised by just about everyone. There is a street party in George Square being planned to celebrate her trip to Hell. What goes around comes around and she deserves it.
 
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A lot like it is now after Blair and Brown destroyed the British economy.

In all honesty I wish that Labour had won the last election, it would then have been their task to dig us out of the mire of their making.
And no-one else to blame.
thats why labour didnt pursue forming a coalition with the liberals they knew the state we were in
 
Only the rich got richer

Hi Colin

we are all entitled to an opinion, but I couldn't let this pass, because it simply isn't true. Here are the figures, courtesy of the Office for National Statistics for median household income, adjusted for inflation. By using a median (rather than mean) it can't be affected by the rich getting richer. It shows a quite clear increase in household income across the period.

[TABLE="width: 423"]
[TR]
[TD]1979[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,225[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1980[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,696[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1981[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,910[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1982[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,520[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1983[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,965[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1984[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]14,070[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1985[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15,017[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1986[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15,760[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1987[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16,877[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1988[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]18,053[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1989[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]18,290[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1990[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]19,875[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
 
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Hi Colin

we are all entitled to an opinion, but I couldn't let this pass, because it simply isn't true. Here are the figures, courtesy of the Office for National Statistics for median household income, adjusted for inflation. By using a median (rather than mean) it can't be affected by the rich getting richer. It shows a quite clear increase in household income across the period.

[TABLE="width: 423"]
[TR]
[TD]1979[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,225[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1980[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,696[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1981[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,910[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1982[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,520[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1983[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,965[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1984[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]14,070[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1985[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15,017[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1986[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15,760[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1987[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16,877[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1988[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]18,053[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1989[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]18,290[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1990[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]19,875[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

Now compare that to inflation.
 
Watching the program on bbc1 now on the witch! She has just said in her own words "there are those that are using violence and intimidation to impose there will on others who do not want it and it must not succeed"

But sadly the bitc h did. Oh the irony listening to them words while watching riot police beating the crap out of people!
 
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For the benefit of those who missed out on the Thatcher years due to still be a twinkle in someone's eye, Trade Unionists were an aggressive race of people who invaded Britain in the 1970's. They had strange ideas that were alien to Mrs T, for example, they used words like: "society", "solidarity", and some talked of redistributing wealth to make society fairer. No doubt you can understand why Mrs T found their language so offensive.

They were a cheeky lot, and sometimes carried banners, one of their weird beliefs was that people had a right to have a job!!!

They glowed red in the dark, and rumour had it that they were found by some people under their beds!

Had Mrs T not done battle with this race of invaders they may have taken over the county, possibly even the whole world!

Had that happened we would all now be walking around red and glowing in the dark, imagine how embarrassing that would be!

There would be little pink children running everywhere!

I hope I haven't frightened anyone by talking about these terrible dark days - please don't have nightmares.

When you go to bed tonight take a quick look under your bed, and when you see it's all clear, just say a quiet little: 'thank you' to Margaret for saving us all from the big bad unions!

Night, night - god bless!
 
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Now compare that to inflation.

Ray said:
Here are the figures, courtesy of the Office for National Statistics for median household income, adjusted for inflation. By using a median (rather than mean) it can't be affected by the rich getting richer. It shows a quite clear increase in household income across the period.

Already adjusted for inflation Zeb
 
Quoting figures and percentages is a typical Tory response. The facts are despite what figures you produce, unemployment peaked at 3 million, her policies decimated whole towns, cities and destroyed communities while the rich fat cats got richer. She was a ruthless despot that wouldn't listen to anyone.

There was actually a celebration in George Square last night, such is the legacy she left.
 
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Quoting figures and percentages is a typical Tory response. The facts are despite what figures you produce, unemployment peaked at 3 million, her policies decimated whole towns, cities and destroyed communities while the rich fat cats got richer. She was a ruthless despot that wouldn't listen to anyone.

There was actually a celebration in George Square last night, such is the legacy she left.

So my statistics are a "typical tory responses" but your statistics are "facts"? Surely you can see the irony there Colin?

And incidentally, I am not a Tory, I am a card carrying UKIP member.
 
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Quoting figures and percentages is a typical Tory response. The facts are despite what figures you produce, unemployment peaked at 3 million, her policies decimated whole towns, cities and destroyed communities while the rich fat cats got richer. She was a ruthless despot that wouldn't listen to anyone.

There was actually a celebration in George Square last night, such is the legacy she left.[/QUOTcelebrations outsde lime street station in liverpool last night.
 
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Yes Ray my comments about her are facts. She divided a nation and the legacy of her ruthless policies are still with us today. Blair and Brown carried the torch for her and now it's Cameron and Clegg with their "not for turning austerity policies" which are taken right out of a Thatcherite manual.

So you claim that the economy improved? It did for a while. Remember "boom and bust" and all the yuppies jumping out of windows because they'd lost their fortunes? No one who vividly remembers her 'reign' will claim thst her economic policies were a success outside London. She divided a nation, destroyed families and communities with the ruthlessness of a dictator. 350, 000 miners lost their livelihoods with nothing to replace it.

Her huge unemployment queue swallowed up the assets of North Sea oil at that time and created a divided society with large amounts of people unemployed with no prospects and the rest became a greedy 'gimme' society.

The only portrayal of Thatcher that I liked was her Spitting Image puppet. How appropriate.
 
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We must remember the legacy of Thatcher ...

The privatisation of the utilities being one such example, i.e. families being ripped off for gas and electric while the companies responsible celebrate their massive profits. As a nation we have no plans for keeping energy flowing in the future, so we are now looking at buying gas from America, so anyone who feels ripped off now should brace themselves for a real rooking in the future.

We are ripped off for the water that falls from the sky, and again, while congratulating themselves on their profits the companies involved ignore essential maintenance and allow huge amounts of water to seep away. They are also ignore the need to expand storage which contributes to water shortages after a couple of weeks without rain. But so what! The imbalance in supply and demand created by their negligence means that they can charge more for the stuff that falls out of the sky, and water shortages give the companies a mandate to charge for water by the litre! How proud Mrs T must have been of these private companies for exploiting the opportunities she created for them.

Let's not forget the railways, and the mess caused by breaking up delivery of a rail service between many companies. Yes time-tables may have improved, but then increasingly, large numbers of people can no longer afford to travel by train due to continuing increase in fares. This is happening at a time when we have overcrowded and poorly maintained roads, and rapidly rising fuel costs. But hey, so what! Profit is the name of the game, so forget the bigger picture and buy some shares in these wonderful private companies doing such a splendid job following Mrs T's belief in "private is always best!"

Mrs T enabled people living in council owned property to buy and own their own homes! Surely that must be something to celebrate?

Well it was for those who bought their own homes at a discount, but the downside was that new homes were not built with the capital raised. The truth of the matter being that Mrs T didn't give two hoots about people owning their own homes, she was ideologically opposed to the State providing homes for people who couldn't afford to buy their own, and so used her home buying policy to run down the Nation's stock of housing. The growth of the private renting sector created by Mrs T has made a major contribution to the rising cost of housing over three decades. Homes in disrepair have been bought up by landlords, which has excluded many potential first time buyers who might have got a foot on the housing ladder by buying cheap and renovating through their own time and labour.

The privatisation of State provision of housing has seen Housing Benefit soar, and ironically a Tory Government has now placed a cap on the level of Housing Benefit that can be paid, meaning that in some parts of the country people are having to uproot and relocate.

Some people applaud Mrs T for "sorting out the unions" (mainly those with a vested interest in getting labour as cheap as possible), however, they forget to mourn the collateral damage on manufacturing industry caused by Mrs T's war on working people, i.e. those having enough sense to organise themselves so as to improve Health and Safety at work; to progressively improve general working conditions, and to fight for a living wage that was once (past tense) enough for the average family to buy a home, and feed their families while keeping them warm.

For anyone who thinks that conditions of service and wages improved for working people due to the altruism and good deeds of employers, I suggest doing a bit of reading re British industry, and taking a visit down to Tolpuddle in Dorset, where there is a small museum telling the story of farm workers who were deported as criminals for daring to organise themselves in an attempt to get better working conditions.

With the help of Saatchi & Saatchi at great public expense, Thatcher was able to demonise trade unionists and turn working people against each other. The knee-jerk reactions of some Trade Union leaders helped her in her task, however, many people were fighting for their jobs and their livelihoods, so little wonder if passions ran high at times. I'll never forget on a trip to Wales driving through shopping areas where shop after shop was boarded up. The impact on communities so affected by Thatcherism was devastating. Such images rarely appeared in the media, however, video of miners struggling with the police in London were shown over, and over, and over again. The same piece of footage would be regularly played to sway viewers in favour of Thatcher, and against the Unions.

Many people in Britain were (are) happy to reap the benefits achieved by the Unions over many decades, while condemning the very organisations that fought for those benefits.


BTW, I ran two businesses through the Thatcher’s years, and I've never seen any great benefit to small businesses through Thatcherism. The joke of that time was that Mrs T did a lot to create small business, i.e. you bought a large business and waited for it to shrink!

Small businesses do best when ordinary people have money in their pockets to spend.

The kind of capitalism Thatcherism supports is the kind where people with capital to invest sit on their backside and cream off a profit from the labour of others.

The current financial crisis caused by runaway Bankers was classic Thatcherism working at its uncontrolled and unfettered best,<sic> i.e. the free market reigns over all.

Rip-off Britain is a monument to Margaret Thatcher.

RIP Margaret Thatcher - "a woman whose policies made a small number of people very rich at the expense of the many, and to the abject misery of some folk".

No doubt she will be defended to the death by the Party faithful, and those in affiliated Right Wing organisations.
 
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Yes cause we all know labour SNP and lib dem MP's are all honest upright citizens haha
I'm not defending thatcher , I hate ALL POLITICIANS
 
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"Politics is show-business for ugly people" - heard that on the radio the other day, thought it was quite appropriate.

The "ugly" bit being that they all blend their beliefs around Thatcherism, being the ugly side of human nature.

Party politics distracts from the bigger picture, i.e. we are in a mess, and there is no one on the political scene with the nouse to lead us out of it.

The disciples of Thatcherism just keep slashing and burning in the belief that what they have been taught will see them through.

The Lib-Dems sold out their integrity for a finger in the pie of power!

Ed Miliband has sat on the sidelines waiting for power to fall into his lap by default.

Farage is a parody of Mrs T in a suite, except she wasn't a one-trick pony like Farage. Ask him any question you like, and the answer will be framed in terms of the problems of Europe.

Protest votes used to go to the Lib Dems, then the National Front had a turn, now its UKIP and their: "blame it all on foreigners" rhetoric.

I can totally understand why the Scots and the Welsh want to get out of the claws of Westminster.

What will be left then will be the province of London, and the rest of England.

But then there's always BORIS! LOL FMO Boots!
 
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Well that's finished me with sausages and anything made from mince - stone-the-crows, horse meat was bad enough!!! :-@
 
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Yep. Only Boris Johnson left who you could call a real character. And I can't make my mind up whether he's a genius or an idiot. I suspect its a bit of both.

Extremely clever and quite funny but IMO not a good politician; not a bad one just not good enough to run the country.
 
Mrs Thatcher didn't destroy manufacturing - weak management and trade union barons did, by making it uncompetitive.

We were being left behind by the rest of Europe and she did something about it.

Btw, Scargill was a ****.
 
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Believe it or not he wished me a happy birthday on the phone two birthdays ago.

Mrs was standing next to him on the train platform, told him it was my birthday and handed him the phone.
 

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