1001 reasons NEVER to vote TORY

[DodgyAgent]

Britain isn't in decline. Britain is booming under the leadership of TB and a labor government. Cameron is moving to the left to get votes. The days of the extreme right wing neo-nazis like DA are numbered. Best you stick to screwing contractors while you can DA, before TB legislates your pathetic little existence to the dustbin of history.

Britain is living off the wealth creating legacy of Thatcherism. It is booming in comparison to many third world countries, but we still have enormous social problems that you and your cronies are quite happy to ignore.

[Mordac]

Getting old Mordac, your memory is going. All the clues about an imminent Argie invasion were there - the Foreign secretary chose to tell the world that no British nuke sub was in the area - Argies invaded - Carrington resigned, and 100s of British soldiers lost their lives. Some triumph for conservatism.

Despite TBs mistakes in Europe nothing quite compares to having your economy manipulated by Soros and the humiliating exit from the ERM. Norman Lament indeed.

Point 1: Hindsight is a wonderful thing, maybe the govt was trying to avoid antagonising the Argies too much and thereby hopefully avoid a war.
I don't think you could accuse Mrs T of rushing into a war in the same way Bliar has done in Iraq.
Point 2: "Humiliating" as this was, it probably saved us from the Euro (I seem to remember all the socialists crying out for ERM membership long before Major went in, where are they now?) and an awful lot more pain.

[Mordac]

>Britain isn't in decline. Britain is booming despite the leadership of TB and a labor government

Actually, Britain isn't even booming. Growth is nearly static, and I bet you 10p Gordo has to "revise" his economic forecasts yet again this year.
If it wasn't for the rise in house prices and the credit-fuelled retail mini-boom, we would actually have spent most of the last 4 years in recession.

[BoredBloke]

Benno and Jabberwocky are typical of the anti tory brigade. While it is very easy to moan about the state the UK was in in the 80's and Thatcher in general, they cannot give any examples as to how our basket case economy could have been turned around without the mass unemployment and hardship which many faced.

"Despite TBs mistakes in Europe nothing quite compares to having your economy manipulated by Soros and the humiliating exit from the ERM. Norman Lament indeed."

Labour were fully paid up supporters of the ERM. To stay in the ERM the government HAD to play by the rules. That is, they HAD to prop up the pound. Had Labour been in power, to stay in the ERM, they too would have HAD to prop up the pound.

[sasguru]

Knobjockey is David Contractor Junior and I claim my £5.
Does your mum still turn tricks DCJ?

[Bagpuss]

Labour were fully paid up supporters of the ERM. To stay in the ERM the government HAD to play by the rules. That is, they HAD to prop up the pound. Had Labour been in power, to stay in the ERM, they too would have HAD to prop up the pound.

To be impartial.. The problem wasn't being in the ERM but the stupid level they entered at it was very poorly managed whoever was to blame.

[benn0]

Benno and Jabberwocky are typical of the anti tory brigade. While it is very easy to moan about the state the UK was in in the 80's and Thatcher in general, they cannot give any examples as to how our basket case economy could have been turned around without the mass unemployment and hardship which many faced.

I'm not anti tory - Anti thatcher yes, not anti tory.

I also have no sympathy for a bunch of moaning tw'ts who sit around forecasting economic meltdown for the best part of the last five years which STILL hasn't happened. The same moaning tw'ts who are doing very nicely thank you very much and if they don't like it here can f'ck of somewhere else.

The fact that you lot are included in this group of people is your fault, not mine.

And this time it IS goodbye. I'm off to spend some money on my credit card.

[vetran]

From the observer

Germans raise ghost of ERM in euro-entry row

William Keegan, economics editor
Sunday June 8, 2003
The Observer

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As far as Gordon Brown is concerned, this is a red rag to a bull. When Shadow Chancellor in 1992, Brown was fully supportive of ERM membership, yet it was John Major's Conservative government that received all the opprobrium for the disaster of Black Wednesday, when it lost billions trying to maintain the value of sterling. After that Brown turned vehemently against the ERM. He has continually dismissed suggestions from Brussels that Britain should rejoin, and has argued that this would be unnecessary.



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Maybe it wasn't all bad

[BoredBloke]

Off again and still has not given one example how to turn around the 1979 economy without the mass unemployment.

[DodgyAgent]

I'm not anti tory - Anti thatcher yes, not anti tory.

I also have no sympathy for a bunch of moaning tw'ts who sit around forecasting economic meltdown for the best part of the last five years which STILL hasn't happened. The same moaning tw'ts who are doing very nicely thank you very much and if they don't like it here can f'ck of somewhere else.

The fact that you lot are included in this group of people is your fault, not mine.

And this time it IS goodbye. I'm off to spend some money on my credit card.

You still have not explained what your problem with Thatcher is. are you a woman hater? chauvanist? or what?