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A Fitting Monument To One Of The Greatest Prime Ministers Of The 20Th Century
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Mikey, like a lot of Labour dinosaurs, live in the 40 years ago mind set.
As you so rightly point out Naomi, times have changed. Aspirations have change and the people with aspirations have changed.
Social awareness isn't restricted to Labourites, the right, Low end earners or even no earners. It has a whole spectrum of people.
But not apparently in the 1970s mind of dinosaurs.
As you so rightly point out Naomi, times have changed. Aspirations have change and the people with aspirations have changed.
Social awareness isn't restricted to Labourites, the right, Low end earners or even no earners. It has a whole spectrum of people.
But not apparently in the 1970s mind of dinosaurs.
Labour's manifesto is largly being written by the Unions it would appear:
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Islay, there are none so blind as those that will not see. mikey and co bang on about unemployment but Like the need for TGL herself that was also created by their union buddies. Yes unemployment rose but they were not proper jobs. Under the Union Reich it was almost impossible to fire anyone, thus when TGL opened the valve to allow employers to actually run their own businesses that inevitable surplus hit the dole queue. The public sector needed trimming down , we were paying more and more for more and more leeches. As I have said above the medicine was harsh but the patient needed it. How fortunate we are to have found TGL who did not flinch, in her own words "simply no alternative" - history will bestow true greatness. Mikey and co never explain how they would fix it they just bang on about how she did. I can only assume they wanted us to slip into becoming another soviet bloc outpost. Left to them the Berlin wall would still be up.
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By the time Maggie came to power we had far too many inefficient factories and on top of that that it was proving much cheaper to import goods. The result being that we became a net importer of goods and had to seek other ways to employ people, which hasn't proven easy. Mikey seems to be implying that the solution should have been to make the factories efficient again, but I don't think that was ever viable, nor do I think they could ever have competed with the cost of imported goods.
10cs "Everyone is ignoring my point. A mere handful of people made ludicrous amounts of money at the expense of whole communities and industries " - not missing mate, it's irrelevant, people do well/badly under all governments that's life, what about Saint Tony's, cronies? Why focus on irrelevant minutia?
Mikey still waiting for the "alternative"....
Mikey still waiting for the "alternative"....
I think Thatcher's decision making re: the economy was broadly correct and generally served the country better than what was happening before it, but there is definitely something to what Clarion is saying. When the state enterprises were privatised, they were deliberately sold at extremely under-valued rates to the loss of the taxpayer and to the enormous benefit of buyers who subsequently made a killing on them. She and her successors pioneered the epidemic of profiteering from the public sector by private enterprise which is causing havoc today.
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