Thatcher

[gulliver1]

Boris is now claiming that Thatcher gave the U/K an early start in Climate Change, by closing the coal mines down..... Absolute rubbish coming from Boris as usual....
.......Thatcher took the miners on because she Hated Scargill and the working class.

[youngmafbog]

But where is the breakdown of why they were shut.

Many initially were shut because they were not profitable or because the company running them was too small and economics of scale could not be bought in.

Also, how many were shut because they had pretty much run out? Under all Governments that would be.

[gulliver1]

Conservative Home Should be renamed "The Radicalisation Rag"

[New Judge]

//Thatcher was a despotical tyrant who deliberately ruined the manufacturing base of this country,...//

Not a fan then, 10CS? :-)

I didn't directly benefit in the way you describe some did. However, TGL improved the lives of people like me no end. At least I could get up knowing that my dustbins would be emptied, the trains would be running and the leccy would not be cut off intermittently. I agree that the miners got a poor deal but in my view she did those communities a favour. Coal mining must have been one of the most soul destroying and unpleasant jobs known to man. Of course had Mr Scargill and his mates not tried to hold the country to ransom and bring down the elected government into the bargain the industry may have been run down in a more controlled manner. But time to move on, I think. She's been out of office for thirty years and we now have a different despotic government to contend with which is exercising far more despotic powers over a far greater number of people.

[Gromit]

None of the 957 coal mines that have closed were retired for environmental reasons.

[Spicerack]

Gully the socialist, lol. A post slipped out yesterday that would get you kicked off the Daily Stormer.

[Jackdaw33]

Why did so many miners want a good education for their children? So they would not have to go down the pits like their fathers and grandfathers had to.

[Spicerack]

Do you miss working down the pit, gromit?

[Bobbisox1]

I disliked the woman with a passion but hated Blair more, it’s only as you get older and see things from a different angle that you realise what a strong unstoppable leader she was ,she wouldn’t let Scargill and his mob take over the country neither would she be threatened by Leopoldo Galtieri when his Argentine army lay claim to the Falklands ,if she’d been alive today she’d have made mincemeat of the bully’s in Europe and Sturgeon north of the border too

[Deskdiary]

“…Britain is almost a third world Country…”

The fact that we have one of the largest economies in world would suggest otherwise.

[Jackdaw33]

Thatcher v Sturgeon. If only...

[gulliver1]

16.22, Britain must be third world , It's full of "Damn Savages"

[LeonBlank1995]

The greatest leader Britain has ever had. I would even go as far to say better than Churchill. I can't help feeling, if Baroness Thatcher was in charge of the war coalition, it would now be known as the 1939-1942 war with no Far East connection. She wouldn't have dillied and dallied like Sir Winston did at times. And we would have had 3 extra years of peace. Great lady. Truly missed.

[gulliver1]

The Cons thought only of themselves when Thatcher was in power and they only think of themselves now Bunters in power. Nothing has changed.

[naomi24]

If anyone thinks Britain is almost a third world country they’ve never been to a third world country. This country is thriving. You don’t know how well off you are.

[Khandro]

'Between 1947 and 1994, some 950 mines were closed by UK governments. Clement Attlee’s Labour government closed 101 pits between 1947 and 1951; Macmillan (Conservative) closed 246 pits between 1957 and 1963; Wilson (Labour) closed 253 in his two terms in office between 1964 and 1976; Heath (Conservative) closed 26 between 1970 and 1974; and Thatcher (Conservative) closed 115 between 1979 and 1990.'

[maggiebee]

//she’d have made mincemeat of the bully’s in Europe and Sturgeon north of the border too//
In yer dreams Bobbi - Nicola would chew her up and spit her out before breakfast.

[Jackdaw33]

You're the one who's dreaming, Maggiebee.

[ladybirder]

Never in a million years.

[vulcan42]

Gulliver1, if you would open your eyes and ears and close your mouth you would learn a lot more then you think you know at the moment.

[naomi24]

Haaaaaaa! Did maggiebee really say that? How funny! :o))))