RIP - Baroness Thatcher
09 April 2013, 12:02 AM
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Yes of course I do, but what the hell does that have to do with the sh1te you posted about Thatcher? Who the hell are you to judge me? You of nearly all the posters on this froum have no basis to judge my views on anything. You just post pseudo intellectual babble in a desperate efffort to make yoursefl sound clever when everyone can see you don't have two cohesive thoughts to rub together!
Now for your strained brain here are some facts.
Scargill and Thatcher did for the miners in equal measures.
Yes she fought back agaunst the unions, but of course went way too far and killed off a large proportion of our manufacturing industry and almost all mining and shipbuilding not to mention steel.
She sold off hafl the country for way less than it was worth, frittered the money away and installed a selfish streak in society that still exists today.
Lets not even talk about her black economy and 3.5 million unemployed and the start of the welfare state perpetuated and grown into a lifestyle choice by that other feckless moron Blair!
Anyway she is dead and gone and she certainly won't be missed by me!
Now for your strained brain here are some facts.
Scargill and Thatcher did for the miners in equal measures.
Yes she fought back agaunst the unions, but of course went way too far and killed off a large proportion of our manufacturing industry and almost all mining and shipbuilding not to mention steel.
She sold off hafl the country for way less than it was worth, frittered the money away and installed a selfish streak in society that still exists today.
Lets not even talk about her black economy and 3.5 million unemployed and the start of the welfare state perpetuated and grown into a lifestyle choice by that other feckless moron Blair!
Anyway she is dead and gone and she certainly won't be missed by me!
How much of the industry you mention was completely unsustainable?
How much of the ecomomy was being hopelessly run by government and costing everyone a fortune?
She did some really important things, if she hadn't, somebody else would have had to later on. and at a much greater cost in terms of unemployment and hardship
09 April 2013, 12:23 AM
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Abandon ship! Abandon ship!Abandon ship!
09 April 2013, 08:28 AM
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It's a staggering lack of insight you show.
How much of the industry you mention was completely unsustainable?
How much of the ecomomy was being hopelessly run by government and costing everyone a fortune?
She did some really important things, if she hadn't, somebody else would have had to later on. and at a much greater cost in terms of unemployment and hardship
How much of the industry you mention was completely unsustainable?
How much of the ecomomy was being hopelessly run by government and costing everyone a fortune?
She did some really important things, if she hadn't, somebody else would have had to later on. and at a much greater cost in terms of unemployment and hardship
09 April 2013, 08:44 AM
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Maggies legacy is that she changed both of these things.
her problem was being stabbed in the back by said feckless morons before she could finish the job of educating the lazy *****.
All still very apparent today.
09 April 2013, 09:33 AM
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Rather than replace said lazy ******* she closed down the whole industry. That's the thing, she changed them. she didn't fix them, even the people who did their bit and who weren't lazy suffered under her.
09 April 2013, 09:56 AM
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09 April 2013, 10:46 AM
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Yep, they still have a car industry and it employs thousands of people. You can argue about the economics all you like, but the fact is there are French and German cars sold all over the world today whereas not a single British owned brand remains.
09 April 2013, 11:12 AM
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She killed mining communities in one foul stroke and only went to war with Argentina to boost her own profile,she didn't even negotiate with the argies to try to prevent more bloodshed .....
09 April 2013, 11:14 AM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22076886
09 April 2013, 11:29 AM
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She did leave a social acceptance of self, self, self which I think has irrevocably damaged society and made it more unpleasant for so many people. Greed is common currency from champagne bankers to welfare claimants.
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09 April 2013, 11:40 AM
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You're naievety over what actually caused the demise of the British car industry and heavy industry generally does not surprise me.
09 April 2013, 11:51 AM
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Neither.
They still have a car industry but what is it costing them?
They still have a car industry but what is it costing them?
09 April 2013, 11:53 AM
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As for the UK car industry, mass produced British cars were crap beyond belief! We now occasionally joke about French build quality and them falling a part, but all the mass produced ****e that came out of Layland for example were so poorly built they made French cars look like Bentleys. Who here has put their money where their mouth is and actually bought a Rover or an Austin/Leyland or Reliant motor to support the mass produced British car industry, very few if any (since this is a Subaru site!!). The growth in the Japanese car market was the final nail in the coffin for the British car industry.
09 April 2013, 11:58 AM
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You of course remember the greater sh!thole the country was in before she came into power; mountains of uncollected refuse, unburied dead, constant power cuts, widespread public sector strikes by an unelected power holding the country/Government to ransom which only accelerated their own demise. Britain was in massive decline.
The truth is that there are many different ways the country could have gone... too late now as we are f**ked, but hey ho!