I worked in the oil business. Production pre '78 was insignificant. It was the eighties that it really got going. Thatch blew it all on fighting the unions by creating unemployment.
Oh i see what you mean, as the union membership decreased and lost power, they lost their jobs - it was their fault, Thatcher had nothing to do with the massive levels of unemployment at all
Good to see that JWM followed up that astute rebuttal with a cogently argued response.However it was the deliberate policy of running down manufacturing that pushed unemployment up to record levels. Interestingly in the last 50 years there have been only 8 when Britain has not run a deficit. Six of those were under Labour.
I see that Clegg appears to have recovered a lot of ground in Sheffield Hallam in the latest polls, which is interesting though perhaps not that surprising. Means it's looking even less likely that LDs will side with Labour, I suspect
Heard on the radio a short time ago that there will be more people that don't vote than those who do in Norfolk . I find that incredible and disgraceful at the same time. If you don't vote you have no right to criticise the government whoever is in power. I despise apathy in any walk of life pathetic if you ask me.
Not saying that's my view ....I always vote....but I do know a few people that don't vote because of the reason stated.
I know for a fact that my vote won't make a difference, Labour came 5th in 2010, but I'll still vote for them!
I will end up living in China as an economic migrant so I'm pretty hard line Commie. What you people do is your business.
If only every vote did make a difference! Unfortunately we have such a fooked up voting system which means that only a hundred seats will determine the outcome! I may be a bad arse Tory but even I recognise the need for a more proportional system of voting.
I don't understand why the tories have a reputation for economic competence. Osborne has borrowed more than every labour Chancellor in history combined. That's despite foodbanks, cuts to legal aid, massive cuts to local government funding, arbitrary benefit sanctions and many other atrocities committed against the working poor. The UK economy was growing in 2010 before Osborne strangled the life out of it and it only started to improve when he effectively abandoned austerity in 2012. Yet what is his plan for after the election? More recovery killing. What makes this worse is that labour have just let the narrative build up and have barely challenged the great tory lie.
Couldn't agree more after all Tony Blair was put into office with just 36% of the popular vote for his third term the system stinks and the borders favour the Labour party. When the Tories wanted to re-draw the borders to make it fairer (NOT more in their favour), bloody Clegg and co vetoed it
In 2010 labour took around 33000 votes power seat, the tories took around 35000 per seat. That's compared to the lib dems who took around 120000 per seat. The tories don't care about electoral fairness, if they did they would have given the lib dems PR, they just care about rigging the system in their favour
