Why are some folk keen on making a point at the funeral?

[DodgyAgent]

TBH she may have been best off continuing to subsidize the coal industry. That's what the West Germans did and it seems to have worked for them.

She did try very hard to negotiate reform with the miners and Scargill saw this as an opportunity to wage a class war

[doodab]

She did try very hard to negotiate reform with the miners and Scargill saw this as an opportunity to wage a class war

Agreed. It takes two to tango and Scargill was a bit of a ****.

[Goatfell]

By ensuring they had zero industry to depend on? She needed to do to build some resilience and potential for recovery into the system before she pulled the plug.

Well, obviously that wouldn't have worked as there was no slack in the workforce for redeployment due to the full employment in those pre-Thatcher Golden Years.

She 'didn't pull the plug', it had taken many decades for most of these titans to finally go belly up, she was merely present at the last rites.

[darmstadt]

She did try very hard to negotiate reform with the miners and Scargill saw this as an opportunity to wage a class war

It was like a brick wall being hit with a demolition ball, the ignorant against the arrogant.

[DodgyAgent]

It was like a brick wall being hit with a demolition ball, the ignorant against the arrogant.

How do you know what it was? I thought you had fled abroad to feather your own nest

[sasguru]

How come there was less unemployment in 2004 than there was in 1979?

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Simples. There are now 1.7 million (!!!!) long term sick (i.e. on some form of disability benefit) that are not counted in the unemployment stats.

[shaunbhoy]

I will always be grateful to Maggie for trialling all-day Pub opening in Scotland the year I turned 18!!

As for almost everything else, she can burn in hell, the condescending old trout!!