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:thud:Mr C said:Any damage Thatcher may (or may not) have done is tiny in comparison to the way Blair has torn this country apart.
Good f***ing grief.
:thud:Mr C said:Any damage Thatcher may (or may not) have done is tiny in comparison to the way Blair has torn this country apart.
Northstander said:Falklands are belived to be surrounded by Oil Fields (yet to be found), go figure
Yorkie said:Really? And if they were ever found how much would it cost to ship it 8000 miles?
Northstander said:Based on the cost of world oil at the moment, a lot less than it would to sell!
Goodfella said:Thatcher destroyed this country.
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Northstander said:War is all about money - nothing more!!
dougdeep said:Strange, I thought death was involved.
Northstander said:On reading that, who believes this was about a British island with a tiny population thousands of miles away being invaded that admittedly, most of the UK never heard of?
Yorkie said:I am not a Thatcher lover but you are wrong about the Falklands too.
My StepMum is from the Falklands and we had friends there. Jack worked with Sir Rex Hunt for the British Government.
I am for ever grateful that we got the Falklands back from an illegal invasion. Argentina have NEVER owned the Falklands and have no international claim on it whatsoever.
Yorkie said:I am not from Yorkshire. I didn't move there until I was 22. I moved back here 3 years ago.
Both Ned and I have posted here in the past about what happened in Yorkshire during the 80's. It does strike me as strange that Thatcher isn't hated in the north as much as I have read and heard since I moved back down south.
Ned posted a couple of weeks ago that his Dad lost his job 3 times in two years in the steel industry but that wasn't the fault of the Government but of cheaper steel being manufactured elsewhere in the world.
Power stations were using cheap Polish coal so the Government said that taxes couldn't be used to prop up the mining industry any more which was losing money hand over fist.
The miners didn't want to strike. All meetings were in the open air and all votes were visible. Men put their hands up because every else could see who was for and against (peer pressure) Some just wanted their redundancy money or to transfer to the newly opened Pontefract field which was still going strong. As I said a couple of weeks ago, my next door neighbour eventually got his redundancy money and retrained as a manager for Victoria Wine company. He was glad to get out of the pit. He hated it. Scargill started off as a union conveynor and ended up with two cars and a massive house in Yorkshire. Some communist!!
Barrel of Fun said:It always surprises me that people would 'hang' a politician.
Where would the money come from to prop up the Coal industry? Would you have been happy to pay your hard earned £s to support an industry htat was losing millions by the minute? Would you?
It is very easy to blame Thatcher and defend 1,000s of unemployed, but cola was finished. Has it made a comeback? Was Maggie right
Franks Wild Years said:Cola ?
simonsimon said:quoted by bhaexpress"Just thinking about it, many of the Anti Thatcher brigade are the same people who have serious global warming Issues. Burning coal was and is a large factor in the destruction of the ozone layer folks ......."
This was not an issue at the time.
The snobbish social climbing cow was the forerunner of G.W.BUSH in her contempt of green issues.