Contractors are Thatchers children

[BlasterBates]

Was it Thatcher? because we suffered two pretty awful recessions under Thatcher "if it isn't hurting it isn't working", so the contract market was almost impossible back then. Sort of got going after she left really. In fact under Blair it really got moving, so maybe ....Blair's children with a bit of help from Mr Major.

[DodgyAgent]

You do realise that by bringing this thread back I have now lost concentration and momentum on my "lead blagging" activities.

[RichardCranium]

my "lead blagging" activities.

Oh dear, DA. Taken to pinching the lead of church rooves?


(Need a hand? I've got a ladder.)

[Doggy Styles]

The industrial decline due to the present government has been greater than it was under Thatcher.

I read those stats too and was surprised by them.

I had been led to believe that the Labour party was rescuing industry from the ravages of Tory governments.

[lilelvis2000]

I read those stats too and was surprised by them.

I had been led to believe that the Labour party was rescuing industry from the ravages of Tory governments.

You can't rescue lower wages and less taxes in Eastern Europe and Asia.
I just read an article where the LSE is offshoring all its IT to Sri Lanka - which apparently is cheaper than India.

[Doggy Styles]

You can't rescue lower wages and less taxes in Eastern Europe and Asia.

Probably true. In which case that's two reasons for lefties to be embarrassed about criticising Thatcher for wrecking UK manufacturing.

[DodgyAgent]

Oh dear, DA. Taken to pinching the lead of church rooves?


(Need a hand? I've got a ladder.)

There's an idea

[DimPrawn]

Are you saying IT Contractors are like Mark and Carol? Criminal, racist and racketeering

[Sysman]

I read those stats too and was surprised by them.

I had been led to believe that the Labour party was rescuing industry from the ravages of Tory governments.

Which stats where? Please.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

If you bother to read what I wrote then you will see that I am as critical of her as most. I may have been wrong statistically about grammar schools but my central point is not about grammar schools, nor is it about adoring the woman. My point is that contractors have done very well as a result of her policies and I am asking those of you who hate her so much to explain why. So far not one of the hysterical idiots has managed to step up and argue:

1. That had Thatcher NOT come into power they would be as wealthy as they are now anyway.

or

2. What is it that she did that was so terrible to them that it made them hate her.

If snaw had said that Thatcher once got pished and stabbed his mum to death then THAT I could understand.

1. As others have said - totally unknowable.
2. We've been over this, but just a few highlights:

Support for Apartheid
Refusal to settle Miners strike when she had the opportunity
Failure to act to prevent Falklands Invasion when warned and cynical use of it subsequently
Claim to refuse to negotiate with "blood stained marxist" Mugabe - and then negotiating.
Claims never to U turn but doing one any time her personal power was threatened.
Her sickening support for the utter reptile Cecil Parkinson - Mandelson's a sleazy rat, but he didn't abandon his own child and refuse to have anything to do with her or her Mum.
Claims she cut taxes when she didn't
Claims to respect democracy and free speech but refused to let a legally constituted Polictical party appear and speak on TV
Sickening Support for Pinochet
Claim to cut red tape but increasing it - Poll Tax top but not the only example
Squandered Oil and Privatisation revenues
Created most of the current Quangocracy current Tories complain about
Purchase of Jonson Matthey Bank - a Nationalisation when it suited her
Had the cheek to campaign on the basis of that "Labour Isn't working" poster on the basis that Labour wasn't ensuring people had work! What a laugh. Took over and more than doubled unemployment (as well as gerimandering the stats).
Selling us stuff we'd already paid for then creating pointless regulators and watchdogs to do sod all at our expense