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I dont like Thatcher, or hate Thatcher.... but I do think it is idiocy to blame a prime minister from 20 years ago for the current slump.Comment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostIs that really the best you can do?Comment
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Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View PostWell at least it's a serious point based on facts rather than some old tosh about middle class guilt. She (and many of her supporters - as illustrated by the post I was answering) cared for democracy only as long as it led to her rule. She increased the level of deposits required to stand in elections and destroyed local democracy.
Can I call for a point of information on that, if you are going to continue to talk complete tulip them someone has to call you on it.Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostCan I call for a point of information on that, if you are going to continue to talk complete tulip them someone has to call you on it.Comment
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It's all Thatcher's fault that the National Debt will be a trillion pounds in a couple of years.Comment
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Originally posted by Cyberman View PostIt's all Thatcher's fault that the National Debt will be a trillion pounds in a couple of years.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View PostWell at least it's a serious point based on facts rather than some old tosh about middle class guilt. She (and many of her supporters - as illustrated by the post I was answering) cared for democracy only as long as it led to her rule. She increased the level of deposits required to stand in elections and destroyed local democracy.Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Minestrone posted That was because those industries where taking the piss, the nation was buggered over a barrel because of the miners, they shafted Ted Heath with their demands of 40% pay rise. The whole of British Leyland night shift were sleeping in tents out the back of the factory. This was all going on while the state was paying for these companies to operate.
Someone had to put a stop to it and that person was never going to be popular.
So let's appease them.
Let's pretend Maggie acquiesced to the Unions and gave them what they wanted.
What would have happened ?
Massive increase in taxes to pay for their parasitic demands as they continued to bleed the country dry.
However, we keep nationalised industries going for another 10-15 years.
Then, quite independently from the UK, the Taiwanese / Chinese Industrialization blossoms, the US and most of Europe off-shore their production, leaving GB with state-funded companies that are bankrupted by colossal labour costs selling expensive goods.
In other words, Thatcher was damned if she did, and damned if she didn't.
You want a culprit ?
Globalisation.
Who is responsible for globalisation ?
We all are.Last edited by Board Game Geek; 26 November 2008, 00:56.Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. LewisComment
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Originally posted by Board Game Geek View PostAgreed. However some people who are rabid anti-Thatcherites will disagree.
So let's appease them.
Let's pretend Maggie acquiesced to the Unions and gave them what they wanted.
What would have happened ?
Massive increase in taxes to pay for their parasitic demands as they continued to bleed the country dry.
However, we keep nationalised industries going for another 10-15 years.
Then, quite independently from the UK, the Taiwanese / Chinese Industrialization blossoms, the US and most of Europe off-shore their production, leaving GB with state-funded companies that are bankrupted by colossal labour costs selling expensive goods.
In other words, Thatcher was damned if she did, and damned if she didn't.
You want a culprit ?
Globalisation.
Who is responsible for globalisation ?
We all are.
Had Thatcher not done what she did then the UK would have prospered as a cheap offshoring IT centre. The bonus would have been that most of us would now be multi lingual, with the ability to speak Hindi, Mandarin etc etc. The UK would have been less crowded as the Brits would have flooded out to countries such as Somalia and Poland in search of jobs and a better lifestyle.
Those of us left would have secure jobs digging up coal and making spare parts for Morris Minors and Austin Maxis.
Fewer immigrants from the middle East would have meant the UK not being a target for Al Quaeda.
So you anti Thatcherites were right all alongLet us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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