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Ding Dong we lost a great stateswomen - Margaret Thatcher has died
Something I always wondered about her stopping the free school milk; In the days of wine and milk lakes and the EU (us) paying farmers to throw it away, why did it even cost anything ? Why was there a saving to be made?
And the way it turned out, with full fat being bad for you after all that whining about it, why not just give em cloudy water aka red top?
My father used to work for the steel works until 1980s when a lot of the plant was closed. However, he got on with it, re-trained and found a new job almost straight away.
He rightly points out that it was the policy of nationalization that brought the industry to its knees, as it did not modernize enough.
It was NOT a sole result of the Tories that such industries began to collapse. Prior to Thatcher's election in 1979, two steel works in South Wales were going down the pan.
The economic reforms and the expansion of the service sector in my local area that she encouraged have so far been very successful.
Considering the mess the country was in prior to her election, I think she did a good job (a far better job than Michael Foot, Kinnock or any militant trade union organization could ever have done!!)
fairly concise
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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