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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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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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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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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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That evil woman destroyed the lives of millions of ordinary working class families. Only the rich got richer and the rest of us living North of Watford were made to suffer.
A character?!!!! Satan personified more like.
Her "greatest" achievement was in fact New Labour. After she was kicked out by her own party we had Blair and Brown copying her policies. I remember both of them inviting her to no 10 for advice. Can you imagine a Labour Prime minister inviting a former Tory Prime minister to tea and asking for advice? That's what they two did and her policies lived on long after she was gone.
She is hated up here. Despised by just about everyone. There is a street party in George Square being planned to celebrate her trip to Hell. What goes around comes around and she deserves it.
A character?!!!! Satan personified more like.
Her "greatest" achievement was in fact New Labour. After she was kicked out by her own party we had Blair and Brown copying her policies. I remember both of them inviting her to no 10 for advice. Can you imagine a Labour Prime minister inviting a former Tory Prime minister to tea and asking for advice? That's what they two did and her policies lived on long after she was gone.
She is hated up here. Despised by just about everyone. There is a street party in George Square being planned to celebrate her trip to Hell. What goes around comes around and she deserves it.
not from what ive read about the falklands era she was advised by many politicians and several military leaders not to send the task force in
thats why labour didnt pursue forming a coalition with the liberals they knew the state we were in
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Dotty
Proving once again that the scots and politics are a futile mix.
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Ray Stafford
Hi Colin
we are all entitled to an opinion, but I couldn't let this pass, because it simply isn't true. Here are the figures, courtesy of the Office for National Statistics for median household income, adjusted for inflation. By using a median (rather than mean) it can't be affected by the rich getting richer. It shows a quite clear increase in household income across the period.
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[TD]1979[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,225[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]1980[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,696[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]1981[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,910[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]1982[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,520[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1983[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13,965[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1984[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]14,070[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1985[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15,017[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1986[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15,760[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1987[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16,877[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1988[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]18,053[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1989[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]18,290[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1990[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]19,875[/TD]
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