Hilts I couldn't agree more! I have some vivid memories of what she did, she came into power the year I got married, and I had a Job at the time, that sent me into all the communities that she ruined, on a daily basis I would visit homes that were blighted by her policies, there is no way I can forget the terrible suffering she caused, and I for one have stepped back from this debate, in order not to offend those that argue a case for her.............
Mabon you always preach that you are not British but Welsh only, so you being shamed doesn't hold any merit does it? Can I ask will be celebrating when John Major dies, or Tony Blair does because they did as much or damage to this country as she did. We will be suffering Blair's and Brown's mismanagement for decades they say.
Are you going to give over now Jager? Does it matter whether Mabon uses British or Welsh? He's Welsh and also British, I'm sure though he'd never use the English discriptive!..............
No Phil he quite specifically said that he doesn't consider himself British I seem to remember. Still this is about thatcher and her contribution to the UK as a whole.
Ok Jager hang on while I get myself a beer from the fridge, I feel a good debate coming on here, by the way Thatcher and the word contribution should not even be mentioned in the same sentence!....................
And this is the legacy left by Blair and Brown, their whole 13 years was powered by an 82% rise in debt, yes a fine legacy that is going to effect everyone for decades. I'm so glad I voted those bastards in ! Now we have Cameron who's going to make even a bigger mess of it. Still as long as we can blame thatcher all is okay http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/04/tony-blair-cant-escape-blame-for-the-debt/
Before the strike i was happy to be british, but being an enemy of the british state by being a south wales miner fighting for my job, that was when i changed my attitude, jager thatcher treated me and my fellow miners as an enemy of this country, unable to travel freely , many of my friends were arrested for standing on the side of the road, were you aware that anyone employed by ford uk, first had to be vetted by the secret service to see if they were subversives and if they had any political affiliation ford refused to employ them if they were found to be members of undesirable political organisations, this was thatcher and ford working together, i have plenty to hate that bitch for as do thousands of others
Jager! There's no point in bringing up stats for the support or incrimination of any of these politicians, it's all pointless. What you should be focusing on is this, we are one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and we have this debt simply down to the criminal recklessness of our banking system, which might I add, had all restraints removed by Thatcher some time back, and we didn't have to burden the country with this debt, had we let these banks go to the wall, but that was never going to happen, while those that would have lost the most, would have been the ruling class, so it was always going to be the working class and the poor amongst us, that were going to pay the price for the inept bankers, because they are the weakest and easiest target to go for, our system is rotten to the core, and time the british people took to the streets mate!................
Yet when the unions were in control of things you couldn't even get a job if you weren't in their union, you came from the wrong family or your face didn't fit. You may be right about ford above, but the unions were doing exactly that for decades before, they probably got the idea from them. I just think unbridled hatred of someone is wrong, and that is where most problems occur today. I said I thought Scargill was a scumbag, and the political parties and unions. Do I hate them ? No I just think they are scum, it's an opinion through many years of observation and dealing with them.
Perhaps you are missing the point, Blair and Brown had a chance to make changes, but they didn't they just empowered the banks to be hugely more irresponsible. Just look at the ppi scandal. Thatcher made changes in banking, but successive labour and conservative governments were negligent and could be deemed corrupt in not making legislation to curtail it. Brown and Blair said they will stop the boom and bust cycle, they didn't they made it a whole lot worse. Are you happy that your children and grandchildren will be paying for the excesses of a labour government that lasted 13 years, but will be paying for decades. You want to blame thatcher for everything, but what about the ****ers that were in power after her ?
Jager I agree that Blair and Brown, and many others have done nothing to stop the rot, but they were not so repugnant in their attack on the working class, as Thatcher was, she made it a personal vendetta against the working class, Blair was simply a snake in the grass with a top hat on, he was more Tory than the Torrie's, they are all made from the same mold, whichever side of the house you look at, they are no longer fit for purpose, they do not represent the working man, that much is obvious, but at the next election the British sheep will vote the buggers back in!..........
It's you who's missing the point and you've been missing it from the start of the debate. Doesn't matter who is Prime Minister because they are not the ones who run the country.
Gambling Bankers = Bankrupt banks = Government Bail out = Government Debt = Take the money from the poorest = Cutbacks effecting the very poorest in society = Steal from the poor to pay off the Rich gambling debts! At least in Cyprus they were not going to touch accounts with less than £100,00 Euro? protecting those with the least!............ Britain is said to be worth £10.3 trillion? The Richest 10% of UK households own 40% of that £10 trillion, yet we make the poorest in our society, pay the burden of this banking collapse, what does that say about us? By the way the wealthy households are typically in London and the south of England.
Phil it just says that no matter who is in power the corruption continues. There is always going to be a rich class of people and a poor class of people, the communists tried equality across the board, Lenin was full of those ideas. Stalin put paid to that though, there was always a more equal than you side of that particular way of running a country. In other parts of the world the disparity of wealth is even more startling , where the wealthy hold about 95% of the wealth. And talking of Cyprus its been suggested that wealthy Russians were tipped off, and they moved their money before this happened, so the people getting hit the hardest are small businesses with money in their accounts, and retired people who have gone there in their twighlight years only to find that up to 60% of their money could be gone.
Yes I have been missing where some drunk rich kids have a bearing of running this country when they are in uni. And like most things big business runs the country, hence the reason why the banks got billions of our money, they should have let the ****ers crash and burn imo
I have not heard of that one regarding the Russians being tipped off, but it wouldn't surprise me at all, the amount of insider dealing is staggering, it's why there is this financial collapse globally, there is no integrity anymore!...............
The elite educational sites in this country are the breeding ground for the illuminati who run this country. You talk about whether your face fits on the assembly line at Fords. Try getting in with these lads. They are the powerbrokers who run the country no matter what government are in charge. They are the "elite" - the ones who reap all the rewards from the hardwork of our citizens and are sitting on unimaginable wealth. Through their system of contacts they start wars for their own economic purposes (Mark Thatcher and the Dogs of War/Who really pressesd the red button to go into Iraq/who was on the plane with David Cameron when we "liberated" Libya from Saddam). their cash is stuffed into offshore bank accounts and offshore companies to avoid paying tax which would ensure that we could all have a reasonable standard of living. The miners strike was the great class struggle of our generation. For once, there was a real threat to the establishment, the elite, the bullingdon boys and their cronies. The threat had to be put down and the whole force of the state, included the military and secret services was put behind it. Thatcher was a puppet but she accepted her role with glee pursuing her own right wing ideology and destroyed vast swathes of industry and ruined communities. Rather than phase it in over a period of time to allow communities to adapt her goverment reaped economic vandalism on our country. She didn't believe in society - so she destroyed it. Which brings us to our own area - South Wales. Large areas destroyed by Thatcher and many of our own 606 boys have obviously suffered the consequences. So when you glorify the unions getting slammed under Thatcher and call them the scum of the earth, you may find you get an adverse reaction. Blair - he was more right wing than Thatcher and the Labour party no longer represents the working class. Cameron and the current day Tories have got a free reign. The donkeywork was done by Thatcher - all they have to do is break the Civil Service and then it is job done. The race to the bottom is on - your 8% pay rise could easily turn into a 50% pay cut. Holidays and employement rights - F*** them. We are on our way back to the Victorian workshops. Do you like soup - you better had because there will be no welfare state to fall back on. Unions -who needs them?
Allegedly not only the ones, others including the family of the president moved money http://www.spreadbetmagazine.com/bl...off-in-advance-of-the-great-cypriot-bank.html
As I said about public school boys who are the politicians of the country previously a number of times. They have no concept of struggle and no concept of work and graft. I'm not disagreeing with you on that. But I disagree on the unions, they had to much power and needed to be brought down, Scargill was equally a pawn, one that was backed by the extreme left wing, or communists for short. His ilk in other unions were the same, read the Newcastle thread on how they destroyed the shipping industry up north, they are responsible for that and others. Like knackered said about the steel works with people working there with jobs for life. You say going back to the Victorian age, I very much doubt that, I very much doubt any oppressive government like they have in the Middle East will ever be here. Also does my 8% pay rise gets your gander up ? I have worked damned hard to be successful, is that insulting to you that someone works hard and gets rewarded for it ? The reason I gave that bit information is just to highlight the fact you don't need union agreements to get a good deal from companies, they offered it we accepted. Not difficult decision really.
