George Galloway

[flip-flop]

On the radio the other day I heard Galloway saying that try as he might he could not recall one positive thing the Tories did during 18 years of power.

Two questions.

1. Is this man a moron?
2. What positives do you remember from (mainly) the Thatcher years.

I'll kick off if I may..................sympathy strikes outlawed.

[Wizza]

Thatcher leaving Downing St in tears.

[OBonio]

1) Yes
2) Adrian Mole.

[ELVIS68]

1..Yes.
2..Bobby Sands...and her ...let him starve... attitude

[admarlow]

1) Yes of course!! didn't you see Big Brother
2) Well just look at what happenen now she has gone....

[hopalong]

She HATED Scotland and it's people she gave Scotland NOTHING (apart from the pol tax)

[admarlow]

well there is another answer for number 2 then he he he

[BigMac]

1. Yes.
2. "Dear Bill" letters in Private Eye

[dummkopf]

1. Yes, this man is a moron
2. I remember mortgage rates at 15% (mine was)
lots of people having their homes repossessed.
3 million unemployed.....
Health service in a mess !
Labour may have cocked up on Iraq, but God help us all if the tories get back in.

[ahhdundee]

I totally agree with that fellow Dundee man Mr Galloway. Thatcher and all her spineless cabinet , brought this country to it`s knees. Refusing to bring mod contracts to certain areas such as Rosyth. In favour of their tory constituencies. I also remeber the 15 % interest rates, 4 million uneployed, removing our right to strike, section 28, poll tax, the list goes on.
I don`t like Mr Galloway but he is certainly no moron.
Who else could make he US senate cringe like the way he did.

[whiffey]

The man is a moron, but entertaining.

So, everybody hated Thatcher and the Tories, everybody now hates Blair (and obviously still the Tories). Hatred is cheap, especially on messageboards.

Whatcha all gonna to vote at the next election ?

This amuses me no end.

[bernardo]

1. No- he is very intelligent
2. The trade union reforms, expansion of home ownership, abolition of the closed shop, compulsory strike ballots

[jump79]

whiffey, it's simple - people would rather not vote at all. I thought you understood last time I explained it to you, no?

[jno]

how could he have forgotten the poll tax? The privatisation of the railways? The ennobling of Lord Archer? The pleasure of leaving the European monetary system as the pound fell through the floor? And don't get me started on Mark Thatcher.

I don't think I would lend Galloway a fiver, but I don't think he's a moron either; he did shake the US Senate a bit, which is not so easily done.

[admarlow]

JNO - sp you think we should have had the euro ?!?!?!?!?

[flip-flop]

Oh come on - did anybody actually see his Senate performance??? He was like a bull in a china shop, I hardly think that counts as a marker of his intelligence.

The Poll Tax was a better and fairer system than we currently have - charging four earning adults in a household IS fairer than the current system where a couple of pensioners who have scrimped and saved all their life to afford a home and now are living on a meagre pension are charged the same as their next door neighbours who are earning a fortune - the size of your house is not necessarilly an indicator of wealth.

And why are the scots so bloody unhappy? Scottish MPs are making decisions that affect the English, but the same doesn't happen vice versa - how is that right? You have free higher education, you are subsidised by the south. Scotland is a lovely place and the people I've met have always been really really nice, so I've never quite understood the chip. Not Scottish bashing - I'm married to one.

Doesn't anybody remember the utter utter shambles that Thatcher inherited from old Labour in 1979??? Omelettes and breaking eggs spring to mind - hard decisions had to be made to sort out the mess and she made them.

Without a shadow of a doubt the best post-war PM by far.

It never ceases to amaze me how people, like a bunch of shiny suited era Ben Eltons, doggedly refuse to see any positives from the Thatcher era.

I'm mature enough to realise that new Labour have been postive in many ways - a strong economy that overtook France a few years back, low interest and mortgate rates, handing responsibility for interest rates over to The Bank of England (genius stroke), but equally I can see problems as well - tax and spend (this has NEVER worked long term), theft of �5bn pensions PA, unchecked immigration, the whitewash that was Hutton etc etc etc....could go on.

[maxximus]

i would suggest you did not see his senate performance flip flop. hardly a bull in a china shop. you should be proud to have a man of such conviction and character representing your country. i remember at the time there were many americans wanting to make him an honourary citizen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdFFCnYtbk or full 47 min.version. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/artic le8869.htm

[admarlow]

George Galloway is a sniveling national joke, and Saddam Hussains mate to boot.

[jake-the-peg]

Been thinking real hard here and I finally got one.

She signed Maastrict!