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Re: The unions and "militant" fucked it up.

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:18 pm
by Arginald Valleywater
Get a fucking life. Maggie has been gone for years, 11 years of being butt fucked by a pseudo yankee puppet and his financially inept number 2 have led us to the current debt ridden society. The government could have introduced stricter lending laws but chose not to. Blame Broon, not Lawson or Lamont. BTW gold is now over $1000 an ounce. Guess which plank sold off huge swathes of our reserves for $275, when the stuff was almost rock bottom? Yep good ol' Broon.

Re: The unions and "militant" fucked it up.

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:59 pm
by tommy dickfingers
People seem to forget about the 70's and the union view of one out all out,it was the unions who crippled this country back then with their communist leaders(red robbo athur scargill)do you remember the british cars that were made in the 70's'marina,allegro,maxi,princess, all a bag of shite compared with the japanese imports at the time,i also remember power cuts and the 3 day week,the unions in that decade was supported by the soviet union.thatcherism for all its ills gave this country a big kick up the backside and a reality check that we had to compete with the rest of the world and stop being the sick man of europe,look at the current french government they are looking to move to a more anglo saxon attitude to their economy ie more like us because the french economy is very much union controlled.

Re: The unions and "militant" fucked it up.

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:44 pm
by Nob3y
yes thats right,she wanted people to earn their money and have good family values like when she was growing up.This has been shown on a tv programme.
To say it back fired is a wrong why to say how it ended up but it didnt go the way she first wanted it too.But by then the ball was rolling.


Re: The unions and "militant" fucked it up.

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:47 pm
by Nob3y
it would seem that if the unions hadnt have gone as far as they did things might have been better.But we can only guess now.
Dont matter who you vote for things aint going to change that much.
they all say big things then get in and do somthing different.


Re: The unions and "militant" fucked it up.

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:10 am
by Officer Dibble
?It's hard to reconcile altruism with cuts in public services, deliberately created mass unemployment, the divisive sale in council housing and the escalation of the cold war to the very brink of the abyss...The other reason why Thatcher wanted to be PM was to give her friends in the City access to public utilities so that they could make money for themselves.?

Isn?t this demomnisation of Mrs T. a classic example of Students Union naivet?? Back in the 80?s wasn?t it fashionable amongst wealthy middleclass university kids to don black berets and make these types of pronouncements in the uni bar? Don?t you think most of the earnest young things who spouted such slogans will have grown up now and become the fat cats of industry and the legal profession? Do they now look back with embarrassment at what pretentious silly Billy?s they were, I wonder?

You know, some might say the sale of the public utilities and council houses (which many poor working folk gratefully availed themselves of) were the two main things that kick started the enterprise culture amongst the working class and lead to the comparative riches that we all enjoy today. Certainly, in the late seventies we (the working class) were all skint ? we were state surfs, living in council houses and driving rust ravaged MK111 Cortinas. But by the end of the 80? many of us were in new Barrett houses with new cars on the drive. An amazing turnaround in the space of a decade ? I still can?t get over it.

And back in the 70?s who would have thought the mighty Soviets would be beaten by a resolute English lady and a genial actor ? without a shot being fired! Again, incredible.




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Re: The unions and "militant" fucked it up.

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:22 am
by Arch Stanton
Forgot to mention the fact that Mrs T scrapped the link between the state pension and pay increases and as a result the state pension is one of the most miserly in the whole of Europe. She obviously had this deluded idea that private pensions would take over but that turned into a disaster as well.

Re: The unions and "militant" fucked it up.

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:24 am
by Arch Stanton
Well we most likely wouldnt have had Mrs T who was voted in to slay Arthur Scargill and co.

"The winter of discontent" was a suicidal idea with a Labour government in power.