Margaret Thatcher Day

[AtW]

I thought they believed the intel was accurate at the time?

Wars should not start on weak basis of "believe".

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

I thought they believed the intel was accurate at the time?

Remember Alistair Campbell's sexed up dodgy dossier?

Perhaps I was naive but I always generally used to believe what politicians said and that their intentions were honourable.

Nowadays I take every weasely pronouncement they make with a pinch of salt and for this Tony Blair will always have a special place in my heart.

It was the sheer bare faced duplicitousness of his regime that destroyed my faith in the political process and, I regret to say, nobody since has done much to restore it.

Cheers Tone.

[lilelvis2000]

Indeed. With all what's coming out now with NSA, GCHQ, Police smearing, phone hacking - it seems you can't trust anyone any more.

Politicians are not getting it either. Far too busy shooting darts at each other to see the big picture.

[OwlHoot]

It was a legacy unfulfilled, she took the shackles off the nation but the greedy bastards just exploited it for themselves rather than spread the wealth.

I don't blame her for that, apparently she was quite upset about how it all turned out.

The result was natural, and completely inevitable

Being a chemistry graduate, she should have known about the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, and it works the same with money as for gas: A few smart people end up with huge amounts of money, and the majority end up with much less or hardly any. Always been the same, and probably always will be.

Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution describes particle speeds in gases, where the particles move freely without interacting with one another, except for very brief elastic collisions in which they may exchange momentum and kinetic energy, but do not change their respective states of intramolecular excitation, as a function of the temperature of the system