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    Default Re: Thatchers Dead

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    So its not true that the coal industry was dying a slow and painful death long befiore Thatcher came along? Its not true that it was costing a shit load of money to help it limp along?

    All Ive heard/read so far is Thatcher fucked things up for me/us/insert place name here. Without any real explanation as to why it was all her fault.
    Our coal industry was not as competitive compared to the german because there's was subsidised.
    Her first attack on the tu's miners failed so she set about baiting them in to a second round. She began stockpiling of coal so when a strike took place it would have less an effect for longer. Banned secondary action so workers in other industries couldnot strike to show support. sequestration of union money meant miners families took to collecting on the streets to survive. She basically starved them back to work. Evil bitch, ruined the sense of community turned families against each other - 'no such thing as society'.

    She sold off industries back to the people who already owned it which in turn was supposed to make it more competitive....anyone see their bills go down.
    She turned this country from manufacturing into a service country where we have to import everything and can't manage on our own. Economists are now saying we should try to build up our manufacturing base - really? After we sold everything and closed the country down.

    Allowing people to buy council homes was fine - having no building programme to replace them, dumb.

    She supported Pinochet and depending on your source killed up to 3000, tortured 30,000
    Refused sanctions against Aparthied in S.Africa
    Allowed use of US bases/UK airspace to bomb Libya
    Poll Tax
    Shoot to kill in N.Ireland

    I take it you know nothing about politics?
    Oh no I can quote stuff from the internet just fine.
    Whilst the rest of us lived through it, watched the news, read the papers, saw the effects first hand, had two generations that worked down the pits, took politics at college and university, but you're proved my point.

    We've answered your question and you're trying to twist the argument in to something else.
    You're 2 years older than me for fucks sake and Im from the South so I could read long before you could.
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    Default Re: Thatchers Dead

    Quote Originally Posted by Memphis View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Memphis View Post
    So its not true that the coal industry was dying a slow and painful death long befiore Thatcher came along? Its not true that it was costing a shit load of money to help it limp along?

    All Ive heard/read so far is Thatcher fucked things up for me/us/insert place name here. Without any real explanation as to why it was all her fault.
    Our coal industry was not as competitive compared to the german because there's was subsidised.
    Her first attack on the tu's miners failed so she set about baiting them in to a second round. She began stockpiling of coal so when a strike took place it would have less an effect for longer. Banned secondary action so workers in other industries couldnot strike to show support. sequestration of union money meant miners families took to collecting on the streets to survive. She basically starved them back to work. Evil bitch, ruined the sense of community turned families against each other - 'no such thing as society'.

    She sold off industries back to the people who already owned it which in turn was supposed to make it more competitive....anyone see their bills go down.
    She turned this country from manufacturing into a service country where we have to import everything and can't manage on our own. Economists are now saying we should try to build up our manufacturing base - really? After we sold everything and closed the country down.

    Allowing people to buy council homes was fine - having no building programme to replace them, dumb.

    She supported Pinochet and depending on your source killed up to 3000, tortured 30,000
    Refused sanctions against Aparthied in S.Africa
    Allowed use of US bases/UK airspace to bomb Libya
    Poll Tax
    Shoot to kill in N.Ireland

    I take it you know nothing about politics?
    Oh no I can quote stuff from the internet just fine.
    Whilst the rest of us lived through it, watched the news, read the papers, saw the effects first hand, had two generations that worked down the pits, took politics at college and university, but you're proved my point.

    We've answered your question and you're trying to twist the argument in to something else.
    You're 2 years older than me for fucks sake and Im from the South so I could read long before you could.
    Big mining community round Bristol?
    Ah that's right the manufacturing/industrial sectors she shut were midlands and up. Remember miners families collecting on the streets? That would be me and not you.

    And once again trying to drag the discussion away from the original question that was posed.

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