Miners Strike

[tim west]

ey watch it boy
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leave my mate out of it

that tattoo almost goes down to the (arm) pits

 

[Alastairreid]

I remember him giving me advice last year, but he's not a poster anymore...............did he get the hump?

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[Nige F]

ey watch it boy
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leave my mate out of it

IF that is a tatt..it IS the pits Softus is omnipresent

 

[joe-90]

You'd think that before putting something indelible on someone's back he'd at least learn the fundamentals of perspective wouldn't you? I guess it's fortunate being on the back that he can't actually see it or see all the people pointing and laughing.

It looks like a set of step ladders with a wheel on the top.

 

[kevplumb]

Quasi yank please advise your age and iq, I assume they will be very similar.
Do you walk backwards and bare backed every where so that people can admire your moronic tattoo. .

age hitting 51 i was there smartass

IQ over 120 bout double yours
joe yer a dick

i would love to see you slaver like that in a pitmans club

if you asked in a polite way they might open the door before they threw you out

 

[gant]

I remember him giving me advice last year, but he's not a poster anymore...............did he get the hump?

Good or bad?

 

[gassafeman]

It looks like a set of step ladders with a wheel on the top.

Says you Joe, who has had his songs removed from youtube due to infrequent ear bleeding amongst under 5's.

Can you you actually play a 'b' on a guitar?

Paul.

 

[glasgowgas]

to joe90 and the resident troll

the day your beloved maggie shuffles off this mortal coil, will be a day of not celebration in Scotland but a day of quiet reflection for all the industries she has murdered

mineworking
shipbuilding
car building

what about British Rail, British Telecom, Royal Mail, British Gas

and the families and more importantly the communities she destroyed

if only more people had listened then.........GET MILITANT NOW!

now we cant get a train to run,dont know if we are on the right phone tarriff,posties are back out on the cobbles next week,we are definetly pumped on gas & elec

Kev wear it with pride, your back is my back

 

[oompah]

the day your beloved maggie shuffles off this mortal coil, will be a day of not celebration in Scotland but a day of quiet reflection for all the industries she has murdered

But what have the Labour governments who have been in power since 1997 done to reignite the said industries, nothing so must assume they are totally in agreement with what the tories done to the industrial base of this country.

 

[kevplumb]

so do explain oh wise one how you re open a deep mine

once it has been flooded

explain how you compete with subsidised industry abroad when the brits wont hoy any brass in the pot

thatcher and her smartassed cronie mcgregor systematically wrecked this country

try some research
about the miners strike in the states

when the so called security where shooting pickets

wonder why she wanted him eh ?

thats what you call a great leader

yer freakin welcome to it

some of us had more sense

we might have went down

but where fighting to the last

 

[oompah]

so do explain oh wise one

Never profess to being wise on the subject just making an observation.Man on the moon but can' pump out water hmmm.

 

[anobium]

It wasn,t Maggie who ruined the car industry, it was the hypocrypts who bought the foreign cars, oh that and the rubbish cars which the British companies produced.
Shipbuilding, because we couldn,t compete with the far east, and as for the other services you quote, they were all monopolies and were controlled by the unions.

At least now you have a choice, I wonder do you still use BG BT and Royal mail irrespective of the cost of their services
As for British Rail you obviously do not remember just how bad the service was, oh and it was not Maggie who started the cut backs in British Rail, it was a certain Dr Beeching.

You will be telling us next that Maggie was responsible for the decline in the dock industry on Merseyside.

 

[glasgowgas]

IIRC nobody is saying Labour good/Tory bad

but Thatcher raped this country

remember when "made in britain" was the best of the best

our shipbuilding was the pride of the WORLD

 

[Norcon]

but Thatcher raped this country

No, the trade unions did.
People who 'hate' Margaret Thatcher are the communists in the unions who always wanted more money for doing less work, no matter whether it was affordable or not, and as a result ended up with no work at all when their industries collapsed.

More recently the left hate Thatcher because she fixed the country after Labour almost bankrupted it (a harsh reminder of how badly Labour have done again now) and the younger lefties hate her because the older ones hate her. They have not made their own decision just followed their group mentality as usual.

The people who wanted to better themselves, work hard and have a better life, or own their own properties for the first time in their lives quite liked her.
She was a fine prime minister who stood up to the unions who were wrecking this country, coal mines did close but if any person was to look at who closed the most coal mines then you will see most of them closed under Labour, they wrecked the country then as they are doing it now. Nowadays most unions adopt a realistic attitude to work when then they thought you could get everything for nothing and as we all know that is not the case.

From time magazine:

Among her first fights: a struggle against Britain's out-of-control trade unions, which had destroyed three governments in succession. Thatcher turned the nation's anti-union feeling into a handsome parliamentary majority and a mandate to restrict union privileges by a series of laws that effectively ended Britain's trade-union problem once and for all. "Who governs Britain?" she famously asked as unions struggled for power. By 1980, everyone knew the answer: Thatcher governs.

Once the union citadel had been stormed, Thatcher quickly discovered that every area of the economy was open to judicious reform. Even as the rest of Europe toyed with socialism and state ownership, she set about privatizing the nationalized industries, which had been hitherto sacrosanct, no matter how inefficient. It worked. British Airways, an embarrassingly slovenly national carrier that very seldom showed a profit, was privatized and transformed into one of the world's best and most profitable airlines. British Steel, which lost more than a billion pounds in its final years as a state concern, became the largest steel company in Europe.

By the mid-1980s, privatization was a new term in world government, and by the end of the decade more than 50 countries, on almost every continent, had set in motion privatization programs, floating loss-making public companies on the stock markets and in most cases transforming them into successful private-enterprise firms. Even left-oriented countries, which scorned the notion of privatization, began to reduce their public sector on the sly. Governments sent administrative and legal teams to Britain to study how it was done. It was perhaps Britain's biggest contribution to practical economics in the world since J.M. Keynes invented "Keynesianism," or even Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations.

But Thatcher became a world figure for more than just her politics. She combined a flamboyant willpower with evident femininity. It attracted universal attention, especially after she led Britain to a spectacular military victory over Argentina in 1982. She understood that politicians had to give military people clear orders about ends, then leave them to get on with the means. Still, she could not bear to lose men, ships or planes. "That's why we have extra ships and planes," the admirals had to tell her, "to make good the losses." Fidelity, like courage, loyalty and perseverance, were cardinal virtues to her, which she possessed in the highest degree. People from all over the world began to look at her methods and achievements closely, and to seek to imitate them.

One of her earliest admirers was Ronald Reagan, who achieved power 18 months after she did. He too began to reverse the Ratchet Effect in the U.S. by effective deregulation, tax cutting and opening up wider market opportunities for free enterprise. Reagan liked to listen to Thatcher's various lectures on the virtues of the market or the minimal state. "I'll remember that, Margaret," he said. She listened carefully to his jokes, tried to get the point and laughed in the right places.

 

[kevplumb]

"we built them strong we built to last " jimmy nail

beeching didn't wreck the railways at all you narrow minded plank

he did close a lot of branch lines he did not wreck the industry

keep looking for two names...... thatcher mcgregor ,thats who shafted british industry

do yer flaming homework afore posting s hite