I am so glad that Mrs Thatcher..............................
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But the things she got right, where tiny in comparison to the things she got wrong that destroyed the country.
yep, trebling unemployment and 17% mortgage rates were two of her successes.
Introducing the Poll Tax and trying to end the Rates system based on the value of your home would have meant Lord Lucan paid the same as his nanny.
Crushing the unions and destroying the coal industry was another.
Closing the mental hospitals and selling them for luxury apartments was another. Throwing the patients out for "care in the community"
Selling everything in public ownership that wasn't nailed down, and plenty that was.
Running down the armed forces and the Navy so they no longer had a patrol ship showing the flag round the Fallands, so giving the Argies the idea they'd been abandoned.
Foreigners from democratic countries were stunned to hear that the ruler could abolish the democratically elected council of our capital city because she didn't like its leader.
Young people will find it difficult to believe that before Thatcher, we didn't have beggars on the streets.
When President Kennedy was shot, lots of people found they could always remember what they were doing when they heard the news.
When the Thatcher was deposed, lots of people could remember what they were doing when they heard the news.
Smiling.
Bought our first house then ,figured if we could afford it then it would be easy when they came down,it was.
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longdogs
I have to admit that when Thatcher resigned, I cheered along with a lot of others but I wasn't aware at the time that there would be twenty two years of lilly livered, lying, money grabbing, idiots with personality by-passes who were more than willing to destroy the 'Great' in Britain.
Thatcher's downfall was the poll tax and she wouldn't listen to public opinion but one thing she did do was stand up to the rest of the world putting this country first. Now, we are walked over and laughed at by the rest of the world and particularly Europe.
So I was definately not a Thatcher fan but compared to the muppetts we have now, I know who I would rather have.
Thatcher's downfall was the poll tax and she wouldn't listen to public opinion but one thing she did do was stand up to the rest of the world putting this country first. Now, we are walked over and laughed at by the rest of the world and particularly Europe.
So I was definately not a Thatcher fan but compared to the muppetts we have now, I know who I would rather have.
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Maggie just brought us back closer to living within our means which some people didn't like. There were quite a few booted out off jobs who certainly deserved it.
And of course Maggie never destroyed any industry. She just had the guts to bury it which was the only thing left to do.
Her reign in power makes todays puppet politicians look quite lame.
Maggie just brought us back closer to living within our means which some people didn't like. There were quite a few booted out off jobs who certainly deserved it.
And of course Maggie never destroyed any industry. She just had the guts to bury it which was the only thing left to do.
Her reign in power makes todays puppet politicians look quite lame.
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calorific
Whatever you think of her, she kept getting re-elected for some reason. Why is that?
Because we don't cut the heads off the fookers that keep failing us.
C
calorific
Was it not simply a case of what we have now - a pi$$ poor opposition with no credibility?
Thatcher wasn't the only one who could be blamed for destroying the country. I don't remember this country in being in great shape before she came to power in the 70s. The weak Labour governments and bolshy, greedy unions brought us to our knees long before she came to power.
The unions held the country to ransom. They weren't doing it for the good of the country, just greed. Ridiculous pay rise demands were rubber-stamped by weak governments. How is thatcher responsible for this?
As for Liverpool dockers, they didn't seem to want to work - always out on strike. Same as the car workers. They've got their wish now, they don't work.
Yes, she made many mistakes, but often people who don't make mistakes, don't make anything.
How true. When Labour is in, it's spend, spend, spend.
Then the Tories try to put things back together.
Then Labour back again - spend, spend, spend.
And so it goes on.
Brown sold the gold in 1999,pre 1979? 1976 in fact a chancellor had to be rescued by a loan from the IMF,common denominator? both labour chancellors.
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