My lodger - part three
He also believes that Maggie Thatcher was a saint who did nothing but good for the UK.
(BearWithLittleBrain, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:44, 3 replies)

Uhhh
Yes and she was!
(ruud316, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 10:42, closed)

Wha?
If by "UK" you mean the richest 5 percent, I suppose that might work...
(Naughtius Maximus Stuck on the blog, desperate to log out., Fri 19 Mar 2010, 13:16, closed)

how wrong can you be..
No, Maggie wasn't a saint, but at least she had the balls to stand up to Reagan and leave the UK with some bloody pride - and the ability to show its face in the international community.

No Prime Minister is perfect, but do remember that she inherited a Britain on it's knees after the Labour government had basically tried to nationalise anything that had union members and trade had come to a standstill. We had archaic working practices, a government that was being led by the nose at the will of the unions and, given the two landslide majorities, I think it's safe to say that the general population (i.e not the minority who were living in a miners-union-protected world and of course didn't want change) were more than a little pissed off with Labour.

Of course, some ignorant people will say nothing she did was any good - as opposed to the magnificent Brown/Blair duo who did more harm to the constitution of the UK than the combined efforts of the French, Germans and Spanish over 800 years of warfare, destroyed the economy to a point it's almost funny, screwed the poor, raped the middle class and rewarded their rich cronies with peerages?

Or maybe you preferred the Old Labour governments of the sixties and seventies...you know, the ones who drove us to a four day week, rolling blackouts and, yes, the verge of economic ruin.

Let's not forget that, at it's heart a Union-led Labour (as is trying to reassert itself) is actually socialism, which doesn't care about your rights, or your kids, or you - it cares about The State. It will subsume your rights in favour of the The People, whilst entirely failing to admit that The People is actually made up of individuals with rights that should be protected. Sadly, no system is perfect, but socially-moderated Capitalism at least doesn't try to pretend it knows best - it just says you are an individual and are responsible for your actions.

We all pay into things like the NHS so, as it's stakeholders, why shouldn't we get a say? The State treats individuals like morons and yet it is the core idea of Socialism - the group hive mind should over-rule any one persons' ideas. Yet, crowds are dumb - look at any mob.

gah - some people's narrow-mindedness just enrages me!
(Chad, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 11:43, closed)