A Fitting Monument To One Of The Greatest Prime Ministers Of The 20Th Century

[youngmafbog]

A nice tribute to TGL.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4501484/Thatcher-statue-plinth-Parliament-Square.html

[mikey4444]

Baza....Other may speak for themselves, but I don't hate this woman for herself, only what she and her Government did to the UK....mass unemployment being the worst.

[jackthehat]

Not before time.....

[naomi24]

So pleased she's not toting a handbag!

[tamborine]

MT made lots of council tenants work for mortgages to get on the property market. Clever move that few dare replicate.

[douglas9401]

If only she'd been equally clever in replacing the houses she used to buy votes with we'd be in a better situation today.
Still, she's dead now and that's what counts when it all shakes out.

[mikey4444]

Well said Dougie !

[tamborine]

Councils kept monies from sold houses and most invested with Icelandic bank & lost the lot.

[Garaman]

She was very good at her peak, but went a bit mad as leaders tend to do when given a landslide majority; Blair did the same. I can’t see that happening again though, oh hang on…

[Prudie]

I wonder how many council tenants who were able to buy their home (and then often sell it on at a massive profit) thought it was ideologically wrong. Not many I wager.

[tamborine]

Coal mines? Theyre not worth another Aberfan!

[tamborine]

Poll tax was good with everyone paying a fair whack, instead of just householders held to ransom

[mikey4444]

Prudie....I have said this before on AB, many times, but .....

There was nothing intrinsically wrong with the selling of Council Houses in itself. But the refusal to allow Councils to use the money raised, to build replacement homes was a grave mistake, and is now the principle reason behind the severe shortage of affordably houses to rent. As Dougie has already said, it was a blatant and highly successful attempt at buying votes.

But I wonder how all the millions of people that were thrown out of work by the deindustrialisation polices of the time, were supposed to get any mortgages at all ?

[mikey4444]

Tambo....the Poll Tax failed because it tried to make people who had no income, pay 20% of the charge that people in work had to pay. Its all explained here ::::

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Charge#Implementation

[Kromovaracun]

She deserves a statue. She's one of the most significant figures in twentieth century Britain's history (and also the first female PM).

Unfortunately it looks rubbish, though.

[tamborine]

Mickey, same as anyone else whose trade diminishes. I turned to hairdressing when computers knocked out my stenography trade.

[bednobs]

Was she a peacetime leder? Didnt we go to war under her?

[Islay]

bednobs it was not a war but a conflict - different things.

[bednobs]

so it was the "falklands conflict"rather than the "falklands war" then? Whatever term you use, it's still not peacetime is it?

[mikey4444]

Tambo....we already have millions of hairdressers.....this isn't the sort of trade that men who work in industry normally progress into.

Most of those men were not able to get replacement work in the areas that the deindustrialisation process effected.

[mikey4444]

Islay...with respect....tosh.

It was the Falklands War, not some minor skirmish. There was nothing remotely peaceful about what happened to the 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel, and three Falkland Islanders died.