Some people take this "Thatch" hatred too far

[Bagpuss]

Can some kind person please read the stats to this buffoon regarding the size of the manufacturing sector since 1978?

You know, they say someone knows that have lost an argument when they result to insults, never mind I'll give you another chance, given your anger issues. I know 'manufacturing' provided bigger tax revenues under Blair than the city of London did, but that's not manufacturing as Germany would know it. We are talking largely components, which isn't so impressive.

[AtW]

that's not manufacturing as Germany would know it. We are talking largely components, which isn't so impressive.

Manufacturing is not the same as engineering.

HTH

[Bagpuss]

Manufacturing is not the same as engineering.

HTH

In the same way opinion is not the same as fact?

[minestrone]

You know, they say someone knows that have lost an argument when they result to insults, never mind I'll give you another chance, given your anger issues. I know 'manufacturing' provided bigger tax revenues under Blair than the city of London did, but that's not manufacturing as Germany would know it. We are talking largely components, which isn't so impressive.

Sorry, you are a buffoon.

I came from engineering and my BEng(Hons) trumps your dribbling little arsey mouth over that 100 times.

Britain as an engineering nation was shafted in the 70s, British Leyland used to have people sleeping out the back of the factory every night in tents.

Thatcher shut this down, no more money.

[minestrone]

Manufacturing is not the same as engineering.

HTH

Spot on.

[d000hg]

Sorry, you are a buffoon.

I came from engineering and my BEng(Hons) trumps your dribbling little arsey mouth over that 100 times.

Is that two mentions of your alleged degree(s) in this thread, or did I miss one? Did you want to make a point?

On topic... is it possible to present an unbiased view on what Thacher did?

[Aman]

They gave back school milk though.

My teeth would be in a better condition if the Thatcher government was around earlier and I hadn;t been put off milk by being made to drink warm fatty milk.

[SupremeSpod]

My teeth would be in a better condition if the Thatcher government was around earlier and I hadn;t been put off milk by being made to drink warm fatty milk.

So, you can't take responsibility for your own dental hygene?

FFS.

[BlasterBates]

I have to say I used to buy into the "Thatcher closed everything down and now we have no industry", and then I went to Germany and the mines and the steel works all closed there as well, it was just slower, but didn't make a lot of difference, in the end there was just as many steel and mining ghosts towns as there were in the UK.

In fact I was listening to my mother the other day and she said the problem in the hospitals was that the Mrs Thatcher had outsourced the cleaning and so the hospitals were now full of death bugs, and then I thought , but they have the same problem in Germany, oh and in Holland and in France.

The truth is a lot of changes were just happening and you couldn't stop them.

In fact the same thing happened in the Soviet Union, they didn't dump communism because of ideology, they dumped it because they were on the verge of bankruptcy, and they badly needed, well money actually, and then guess what they closed all the steel works there too.

The truth is the world's changed, it's gone from a labour intensive industrial society to a high tech service economy, that's actually what happened, but some people would rather get up at 5 am in the morning, work in heat and noise for 40 years and the die of "Silicosis" at the age of 55.

[SupremeSpod]

The truth is the world's changed, it's gone from a labour intensive industrial society to a high tech service economy, that's actually what happened, but some people would rather get up at 5 am in the morning, work in heat and noise for 40 years and the die of "Silicosis" at the age of 55.

56 in the case of my Grandfather.