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What industry? We were lazy and needed a kick up the arse.
I do (born early 70's) and it wasn't fun!
So to kick us the arse she put the majority of the north on the dole and the ones who resisted in prison? His did that work?
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Ray Stafford
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.
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Ray Stafford
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?
Derek hatton.
Your joking!
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".
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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Ray Stafford
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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Barry98
One of my claims to fame back in late 90s did a job at his bungalow in Barnsley told scragill
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!
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Dotty
Proper job for one year would be a start..
(Said Croppie, scuppering his chances of any more freebies.....)
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.
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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mountainman
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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<memo to self> Croppie, freebies: nix, nada, njet, none, zilch, sweet fanny adams.
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Dotty
Oh poo............
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.
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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Ray Stafford
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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mountainman
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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mountainman
But of course your mortgage was £150 a month when rents were £250 then LOL
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Ray Stafford
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.
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.
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