Here we go again...
I refer you to my previous answer:
You don't know wtf you're on about.
Most of you aren't old enough to remember how she took a country that every year was having days with power blackouts because the miners were on strike for higher and higher pay and brought it back to economic stability.
(Yes, I know they had a shitty job, but I had relatives at the coalface who were earning about twice what office workers, nurses, teachers, etc, were earning.)
Not everything she did was brilliant, but then she had to bring in things that a previous labour government had ratified through law. The poll tax for example... but I suppose you don't want to hear that.
No government is perfect, look at the present one and then work out how much extra you spend on food and petrol each week since last year, and the government can't be blamed for everything.
Talk to people in their 50's and above about the 'winter of discontent', ask them the first word that comes to mind if you say 'Fords at Dagenham', and ask them about how the unions used to hold the country to ransom.

I was one of the people who 'sufferred' under Maggie. I was unemployed for some of her time in office.
But when you can stay on your PC 24/7 rather than knowing your electric will be cut off for 4 hours a day, 7 days a week, don't tell me you've got it bad.

BTW: It's Gordon and breathe.....
(paof2 Nude might not be rude, but rude could be nude..., Mon 23 Feb 2009, 17:42, 1 reply)

I Beg To Differ
I'm 48 and remember the bitch all too well.

And may I suggest that your memory is at fault .

"Not everything she did was brilliant, but then she had to bring in things that a previous labour government had ratified through law. The poll tax for example... but I suppose you don't want to hear that."

But I *do* - I'm all ears. I'd LOVE to hear where you got the idea that the Labour Government brought in the Poll Tax. All those meetings, all those marches I went on must have been a waste of time.

As I recall it was first proposed in the Conservative Manifesto of 1979 under the Abolition Of Rates and again the the Manifesto of 1987 but then called Paying For Local Government. It was brought in first in Jockland in financial year 89/90 then in England and Wales in 90/91.

So tell me again how it was all a Labour idea?

And I don't need to talk to people in their 50's about the Winter of Discontent - I lived it.

And here's another name for you to conjure with. Westland.

Yet another example of Maggie closing down yet another of our manufacturing industries. In this one, even one of her own ministers resigned.

And do you remember how she paid for all of her reforms. By selling off the family silver. Water companies - gone. Gas? - Sold to Sid. The railways, the building societies. Everything not nailed down, sold, sold, sold. And remember - these belonged to us, the people, in the first place. The money raise went to tax cuts for the rich and big business.

Yes, I remember Maggie and if I had my way I'd stake the bitch and cut her black heart out.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 8:22, closed)

Hello?
Still waiting for your rebuttal....

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 13:21, closed)

Woo Yay #2
You, sir are what Great Britain needs! Very salient points, very well made.... I can imagine "PMQ's" with you in charge, that I'd watch with a packet of peanuts and a large moutain of beers wearing a scarf printed with "Legless=Leader of the free world!" in 6 ft high dayglo green letters.
If you want someone to help stake her out, I'll gladly be your Igor.
(airliebird Has now found Twiglets in Sydney!!!!!!! yay!, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 9:24, closed)