Maggie was right

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Indeed, like on Tranai

I did like the voting mechanism in A Ticket To Tranai


British trains always had handles on the outside only. We invented trains anyway, so that must be the right way.

[Mich the Tester]

British trains always had handles on the outside only. We invented trains anyway, so that must be the right way.

whs

[EternalOptimist]

in MY Utopia he'd be under the f**ker!

he'd probably end up starting threads about being undertrained

[AtW]

I did like the voting mechanism in A Ticket To Tranai

No crime, no beggars, no divorces, perfect utopia...I'd go there myself but too busy with SKA...

[darmstadt]

I want to have her two-headed lovechild

The Tories deployed the most succesful advertising campaign in election history: “Labour Isn’t Working”. The dole queue in the Saatchi and Saatchi poster was in fact a photoshopped line of Hendon Young Conservatives - not many people know that. Nor did people know that under Margaret Thatcher, unemployment was about to rise to levels not seen in Britain since the 1930s, as Britain plunged into the deepest manufacturing recession since the war. Unemployment rose over three million

Thatcher sensed intuitively that the key to breaking communitarian ties was home ownership. Before 1979, the sale of council houses had been regarded as a fantasy of the looney right. But she went right ahead and did it, and by ushering in the age of mass home ownership - “the property owning democracy” - she turned Britain into a nation of property speculators. Homes, once just places to live, became assets to be traded, used as a private fortress of personal wealth - and ultimately served as vehicles of speculation by the banks

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

hmm, a bit dictatorial that one...

[threaded]

Socialism my @rse. It's bread and circuses

it's what brought down the Roman empire

I thought it was global cooling, causing wave after wave of starving Scandinavians to come marching down Europe in search of food.

[DodgyAgent]

Was the removal of the slapdoor carriages on the Tory manifesto?

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I want to have her two-headed lovechild

hmm, a bit dictatorial that one...

Interesting though your quotes are, I am having trouble finding them in the link that you give.

They are apposite, though. What about:

Thatcherism wasn't just an economic policy, however. It was a social psychology based on possessive individualism. It was about getting as much as possible for yourself and your family and then letting the rest of the world go hang. "There's no such thing as society," she said in her most magisterial soundbite. And while she insists that she didn't mean it literally, actually, she did.

Now, nearly 70% of us are owner-occupiers. Ask long-serving trades unionists why workers are so reluctant to go on strike these days and they will often say: mortgages.

Hmm, a juicy article this. Interestingly, if Labour had engineered such a movement of capital from the people to the goverment; they would be condemned for stealth taxation or theft. Thatcher is lauded for making people property-owners.

[Sysman]

Did it ever occur to you that this might have been a safety feature to cut down on the chances of opening the doors when the train is in motion?

Something that happened to me many years ago on a European train.

It was snowing heavily and dark so couldn't see much and I tried to get out on the left hand side of the train, which any other day would have been the platform side. It wasn't that time, and I wondered "Why on earth don't they automatically lock the doors on the non-getting off side?".

Ah, memories of when BR used to get simple stuff right.

[DodgyAgent]

Interesting though your quotes are, I am having trouble finding them in the link that you give.

They are apposite, though. What about:

Hmm, a juicy article this. Interestingly, if Labour had engineered such a movement of capital from the people to the goverment; they would be condemned for stealth taxation or theft. Thatcher is lauded for making people property-owners.

It is interesting that you believe that the state and the private sector are exactly the same in their functions within society. You also make the assumption that the right to strike carries no responsibility.
And what exactly is wrong with being a property owner? or is it one rule for you and another for the less well off?