Who is the senior Tory accused of abuse?

[BrilloPad]

50 million people abused by senior conservative during the 1980s

[NotAllThere]

Allegations of abuse began to emerge as early as May 1979 after schoolchildren began to notice someone had stolen their state-provided milk.

Margaret Thatcher Milk Snatcher was some years before, when she was education minister.

[Gentile]

Margaret Thatcher Milk Snatcher was some years before, when she was education minister.

No, that was a different group of miners she screwed over.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

As someone who loathes Thatcher and her pathetic apologists, but also likes to ensure historical accuracy, I have to report that like so much populist crap spouted on here, that characterisation (milk snatcher) of her is a little wide of the mark;

Responding to the demands to end free school milk, Mrs Thatcher said: "I think that the complete withdrawal of free milk for our school children would be too drastic a step and would arouse more widespread public antagonism than the saving justifies."

She proposed the compromise, later accepted, that milk would only be available to pupils in nursery and primary schools.

She also increased taxes, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of GDP.

She also intervened when that "nice" Mr Major was holding out against paying pensioners a cold weather payment during the worst winter since 1947.

Credit where it's due.

[BA to the Stars]

No, that was a different group of miners she screwed over.

Arthur Scargill also did a pretty good job of screwing miners over. Made it easy for Mrs T to stamp down on the unions.

[Waldorf]

No, that was a different group of miners she screwed over.

The mining industry in the UK was not economic, Margaret Thatcher simply faced reality in that we could not continue to suffer losses each year and support inefficient industries.

The same goes for the steel industry, ship building etc, as usual the Conservatives are prepared to face reality and make the hard decisions, Labour simply push it to one side and continue to spend other peoples money and do what their union paymasters tell them.

[AtW]

The same goes for the steel industry, ship building etc, as usual the Conservatives are prepared to face reality and make the hard decisions

If only they did not run out of industries to destroy they'd keep making those bold decisions