Reply to: You had to be there to grasp the scale of Margaret Thatcher's revolution

[Alf W]

Thatcher memorabilia.

http://www.maggiethatcher.com/products.html

[sasguru]

I didnt go to public school. I did however rise above the rank and file "contractor community" by becoming an agent

Sure you did, Dodgy. Sure you did.

[DodgyAgent]

Ah it must be the famous public school education that enables you to turn it round like that ... God, I'm envious....Not!

I didnt go to public school. I did however rise above the rank and file "contractor community" by becoming an agent

[TimberWolf]

Not really, because it is a Tory instinct to have good housekeeping. This will mean that tough decisions will be made come what may. Bring it on, and soon we will be back on the road to prosperity until Labour get another chance to cock it all up again.

This one?

[Cyberman]

I find it interesting in spite of Germany's lack of necessary reforms, the cities are clean, the transport efficient, crime is low, salaries are high, taxes are about the same as Britian, and unemployment too. You can also say the same of many European countries.

Germany made major reforms to their benefits system in 2004 called HartzIV. This is precisely what the Tories need to do to get people off of long-term benefits and into work !!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept

[Cyberman]

She took tough decisions and did what had to be done. We need another like her.

Not really, because it is a Tory instinct to have good housekeeping. This will mean that tough decisions will be made come what may. Bring it on, and soon we will be back on the road to prosperity until Labour get another chance to cock it all up again.

[sasguru]

I prefer putting you grotty lot in your place .

Ah it must be the famous public school education that enables you to turn it round like that ... God, I'm envious....Not!

[sasguru]

I find it interesting in spite of Germany's lack of necessary reforms, the cities are clean, the transport efficient, crime is low, salaries are high, taxes are about the same as Britian, and unemployment too. You can also say the same of many European countries.

Don't say stuff like that.
You'll be be accused of being a treasonous, envious, socialist heretic who doesn't believe in Saint Thatcher.

[DodgyAgent]

DA what are you wasting time on here for? Don't you have to drum up business in one of those failed sclerotic economies like France and Germany?

You are quite right SAS but I cant sack myself. I prefer putting you grotty lot in your place than talking to the French and the Germans.

[BlasterBates]

I find it interesting in spite of Germany's lack of necessary reforms, the cities are clean, the transport efficient, crime is low, salaries are high, taxes are about the same as Britian, and unemployment too. You can also say the same of many European countries.

[BrilloPad]

DA what are you wasting time on here for? Don't you have to drum up business in one of those failed sclerotic economies like France and Germany?

I had to look that up :-
Affected by a disease characterized by this thickening or hardening.

So are France/Germany hard or thick? Or both?

[sasguru]

Apart from that I make reasoned arguments

DA what are you wasting time on here for? Don't you have to drum up business in one of those failed sclerotic economies like France and Germany?

[DodgyAgent]

A cliché (from French, pronounced [klɪ'ʃeɪ]), or cliche, is a saying, expression, or idea which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning, especially when at some earlier time it was considered distinctively meaningful or novel, rendering it a stereotype. The term is likely to be used in a negative context. It is frequently used in modern culture to reference an action or idea which is expected or predictable, based on a prior event.

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Bit of a cliche you think DA (And that was a 60 s scan of the first page ... )?

Apart from that I make reasoned arguments

[sasguru]

A cliché (from French, pronounced [klɪ'ʃeɪ]), or cliche, is a saying, expression, or idea which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning, especially when at some earlier time it was considered distinctively meaningful or novel, rendering it a stereotype. The term is likely to be used in a negative context. It is frequently used in modern culture to reference an action or idea which is expected or predictable, based on a prior event.

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Bit of a cliche you think DA (And that was a 60 s scan of the first page ... )?

Game set and match to Snaw.
Ironically for DA, his hypothetical Labour voter would have nothing to envy about DA's education or intelligence

[leeperry]

What you idiots dont understand is the mess that Thatcher inherited. This country was supporting a plethora of loss making industries nad people (probably like you) were voting into power the very people who were upholding this status quo (Tory and Labour). The country went bust and the IMF were called in. Part of the deal was to close down non profitable industries of which mining and the car industry were but a few.

The industries might have been non-profitable, but she destroyed them all with no regard for the people that worked in them.

It astonishes me that supposedly intelligent people like you are seemingly incapable of putting anything into any sort of contemporary perspective.

It doesn't astonish me unfortunately that people disregard the social cost of her actions and trot out a few lame cliches instead.