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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.
If you or your parents were working class in the 80's you'll understand why.
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.
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.
she never had a choice all her advisors forced that card on her she dithered like you wouldnt believe about the falklands
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???
A better one than one built on greedy banks
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
You blame that on her?
Zeb, do you remember what Britain was like in the 1970s, before Mrs Thatcher came into power?
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
Zeb, do you remember what Britain was like in the 1970s, before Mrs Thatcher came into power?
What industry? We were lazy and needed a kick up the arse.
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.
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?
Your joking!Although he wasn't actually in charge just the public speaker, he was bent as a nine bob note!
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.
I would like to nominate Ray Stafford for the next prime minister.
I would have to get a proper job for 10 years! 🙂
I hate the woman. I watched everyone round me struggle to live whilst her and her mates enjoyed fine wine!
Proper job for one year would be a start..
(Said Croppie, scuppering his chances of any more freebies.....)
<memo to self> Croppie, freebies: nix, nada, njet, none, zilch, sweet fanny adams.
At least she was a character. That's a hell of a lot more than you can say for most of todays politicians.
Or Scargill in a legal battle with NUM over his "lifetime right" to live rent free in a £1.5m london apartment.
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
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.But of course your mortgage was £150 a month when rents were £250 then LOL
she never had a choice all her advisors forced that card on her she dithered like you wouldnt believe about the falklands
thats why labour didnt pursue forming a coalition with the liberals they knew the state we were inA 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.
After she was kicked out by her own party we had Blair and Brown copying her policies.
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]
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.
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.
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.
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