In Support Of John Major

[diddlydo]

I never thought I'd support John Major but in preference to what we have in his place I'm right with him.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50687225

[emmie]

After 1970, coal mining quickly collapsed and practically disappeared in the 21st century. ... Of the coal mined in the UK in 2016 all was from open-cast coal mines. Employment in coal mines fell from a peak of 1,191,000 in 1920 to 695,000 in 1956, 247,000 in 1976, 44,000 in 1993, and to 2,000 in 2015.

[diddlydo]

Emmie - you've missed the point again. The miners strike was under Thatcher and the heavy-handed way in which she dealt with it was loathsome, despicable and indefensible.

[emmie]

you missed the point entirely, but i have better things to do than argue the toss over who did what and where

[ToraToraTora]

I see the ritual denigration of TGL among the left is once again in evidence. They never will forgive her for rescuing the country from the results of their ruinous policies.

[ToraToraTora]

diddly, read about it, the miners suffered because Scargill made them strike in June after letting TGL stock pile coal for the previous year. Previous strikes had forced the governments hand but this one was a folly from Scargill, the country only noticed the strife we were not short of power. Don't blame TGL blame Scargill for leading his lemmings over a cliff.

[teacake44]

We could do with Thatcher back ,that's for sure.

[diddlydo]

TTT - please stop referring to "Margaret Thatcher milk snatcher" as TGL. And how can you defend someone who used the police in such a brutal way for her own selfish ends?

[emmie]

i thought this was supposed to be about the turncoat JM. He should now retire from public life.. for good

[ToraToraTora]

diddly, the police were trying to keep order among flying pickets etc, doing this sort of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_David_Wilkie
TGL is the correct name for our best ever peace time leader, sad that blinkered lefties like you cannot see what she did for us, all of us, even you.

[emmie]

we were going to hell in a handcart and she was the one who pulled us out of the mess we were in

[shoota]

Best support for John Major would be the stocks on the village green.

[teacake44]

Not sure why he's opened his mouth anyhow, his contribution to this country was a big fat nil.

[Togo]

Ahh bless.. Diddly develops unexpected support for an ex PM who has turned renegade and is advocating support for what was once his opposition. It stands to reason then that this support and admiration extends to Bliar........who is advising us to vote for anyone but agent Cob. Haha talk about double standards.

[diddlydo]

Rubbish - I came to hate Blair when he turned into a b***** Tory and waged war with Iraq looking for WMD that turned out not to exist.

[teacake44]

Can you name just one thing JM achieved during his term? I can't think of one.

[shoota]

Edwina Currie?

[Theland]

He achieved the death of democracy, by not consulting us when he signed Maastricht and later the Lisbon Treaty.

[fender62]

did labour ever do any positive things ?

[diddlydo]

The Masstricht Treaty was brilliant - what was there not to like? I'm sad that we're not in the Schengen Area or the Eiro zone as we jolly well should be.

[dannyk13]

What is the Eiro zone?