Ding Dong we lost a great stateswomen - Margaret Thatcher has died

[ZARDOZ]

Quite how you can agrue this defies any sort of logic. So what if we became a services industry country. The outcome of Thatcherism was to make the UK one of the top six economies of the world.
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I agree from top 5 to top 6!

1979 we were the 5th richest nation by GDP, by 1990 we were the 6th

[eek]

Will Maggie be getting a large state funeral or will the socialist worked lefty apologists be up in arms to stop it.

At the end of the day Maggie only ****ed the trade unionists and the coal miners. Tony & Gordon ****ed the whole country.

KUABT its a Full ceremonial funeral with military honours but no lying in state as she didn't want it.

[eek]

1979 we were the 5th richest nation by GDP, by 1990 we were the 6th

without her I think we would have been 20th.

[Mich the Tester]

1979 we were the 5th richest nation by GDP, by 1990 we were the 6th

Does that matter? So someone else is doing well too, and that's good news. You know what to do about it? Exactly what Alan Sugar would say; get on the blower and sell them some kit.

[stek]

Ding Dong we lost a great stateswomen - Margaret Thatcher has died

I remember the Sunday afternoon football was cancelled, Liverpool v Newcastle I think?

And the first prem game after was Bolton Everton, first ever game at the Reebok, 0-0 Gerry Taggart had one over line and still we don't have goal line technology.

[Sysman]

Complete bollux. One word for you: Germany.

Even Switzerland with its high cost of living has a lot of manufacturing.

[DodgyAgent]

1979 we were the 5th richest nation by GDP, by 1990 we were the 6th

If it had not been for Thatcher we would have been far lower down the table living in a communist state controlled by the unions.

[vetran]

Without Maggie
we would still be making unreliable cars subsidizing each one.
we would still be digging coal manually with all the ex miners dying from lung disease.
we would be getting aid from India.
houses would still be owned by either pension companies, rich nobs, slum landlords or the council.
New Lie would have imposed the poll tax.
The tories would be even more out of touch.

[ZARDOZ]

If it had not been for Thatcher we would have been far lower down the table living in a communist state controlled by the unions.

That's you opinion the fact is we were Top 5 all throughout the 1970s, then the decline started. Can't be coincidence.

[DodgyAgent]

Are you arguing for more red-tape in the financial services industry?
You can't even think straight.
I might just agree with your other points but this one is complete crap.
Labour left the financial services to run just as Thatcher had deregulated them with the big bang.

It was labours job to run the financial markets effectively once Thatcher had freed them from the control of the state. if you are arguing that the banking system should have been managed by the state then argue it