1. 6 million out of work
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is there more getting spent on legal aid than keeping people in work. LABOUR IS NOT WORKING 
Only 1.6 million?
Bunch of amateurs.
The Thatcher achieved more than double that.
But you're right, her mob paid a bunch of advertising agency employees to stand in a queue under a Dole sign, using that slogan you've just trotted out. Fake advertising. Her Labour predecessors had less than a million unemployed when her lot used the ad, and her policies more than trebled it. She also doubled VAT. So, for high taxes and high unemployment... Vote Conservative!
Bunch of amateurs.
The Thatcher achieved more than double that.
But you're right, her mob paid a bunch of advertising agency employees to stand in a queue under a Dole sign, using that slogan you've just trotted out. Fake advertising. Her Labour predecessors had less than a million unemployed when her lot used the ad, and her policies more than trebled it. She also doubled VAT. So, for high taxes and high unemployment... Vote Conservative!
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Thatcher sold off the countrys assets (BG, BT , BR, the water utilites, housing stock etc) for a pittance and we're now paying the price.
all parties have been and always will be the same, working for the short term, make themselves look good for this moment in time (or try) never mind the future......i'm alright jack.
water a £1 a day. sounds good value to me, phone calls never been so cheap, railways have being rebuilt, 1.6 milliomn plus 4.8 million on benifits vote labour go to work, get it all took of you, so all in the civil service get bullet proff pension's and lawyers get fat from legal aid work
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namsag
How come when thatcher manipulated the figure to make it look like less unemployed and labour kicked up sh#te that it was a massive fiddle and treating the public like fools.
Why when they got into power did they not go back to the original way of counting the unemployed . Oh yeah it suited them and everyone blamed thatcher.
11years since they have been in power and they are still blaming the tories and people still listen
Why when they got into power did they not go back to the original way of counting the unemployed . Oh yeah it suited them and everyone blamed thatcher.
11years since they have been in power and they are still blaming the tories and people still listen
Two/three political party's make only the fools think they have a say in how their lives are run!
Better off becoming a corrupt civil servant than condemning them, see how they live after they lose their "jobs". We don't get a golden handshake if we fu*k up at work, just a P45!
Labour/Conservative....same cra* different names
Better off becoming a corrupt civil servant than condemning them, see how they live after they lose their "jobs". We don't get a golden handshake if we fu*k up at work, just a P45!
Labour/Conservative....same cra* different names
I was a lot poorer in Thatcher's day.
the mortgage interest rate kept going up. When it hit 15% my salary covered mortgage, gas, rates, fares to work... nothing left for food or clothing
Then it went up again
I've never, before or since, had to go to work in a patched suit.
the mortgage interest rate kept going up. When it hit 15% my salary covered mortgage, gas, rates, fares to work... nothing left for food or clothing
Then it went up again
I've never, before or since, had to go to work in a patched suit.
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namsag
JohnD surely using the logic that everything that is wrong with todays labour government is the fault of the previous tory government,
All the woes of the previous tory government was the fault of the previous labour government that they took over from.
So your gripe should be with wilson and callaghan not thatcher
All the woes of the previous tory government was the fault of the previous labour government that they took over from.
So your gripe should be with wilson and callaghan not thatcher
Nonsense.
I have criticised the dreadful Thatcher.
I have not attempted to apply the logic you claim.
'LABOUR ISN'T WORKING'
That infamous slogan and poster should be well known to those who remember Thatcher coming to power as it was a key part of the 1979 Conservative election campaign. Unemployment had crept up to around 1 Million under the previous Labour government, but as JohnD says it absolutely shot up under Thatchers policies. They did try to disguise the scale of the rises by changing the statistics used to count unemployment. I read that this happened at least 17 times between 1979 and 1997 and resulted in a drop each time...
It's hard to recall anyone I know who wasn't made redundant during those dark years. Every one of my school friends who I kept in touch with ended up being made redundant, some more than once. I escaped.
That infamous slogan and poster should be well known to those who remember Thatcher coming to power as it was a key part of the 1979 Conservative election campaign. Unemployment had crept up to around 1 Million under the previous Labour government, but as JohnD says it absolutely shot up under Thatchers policies. They did try to disguise the scale of the rises by changing the statistics used to count unemployment. I read that this happened at least 17 times between 1979 and 1997 and resulted in a drop each time...
It's hard to recall anyone I know who wasn't made redundant during those dark years. Every one of my school friends who I kept in touch with ended up being made redundant, some more than once. I escaped.
