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Originally Posted by jaysay
What dragging this country up by the bootlaces and putting it back on the straight and narrow, after years of misrule, and made sure it was the government of the day that run this country not the Trade Unions  |
You mean making whole industries and communities redundant?
You mean ruling over the most devided Britain that modern times has seen?
Or was it the tax cuts to the rich paid for by taxing the poor more?
Was it the promotion of greed and selfishness on a scale not seen in over a hundred years?
Or maybe it was the erosion of workers rights, sacrificed to her love of all things Victorian?
Perhaps it was the record unemployment (how does that put the country back on the straight and narrow)?
Let me guess! It was the record interest rates (15%) that caused businesses to go to the wall and people to lose their homes (it was great for those with savings though wasn't it).
I suppose it was really the fact that she "brought the unions under control" (a favourite of Thatchers fans).
What has always baffled me is the idea amongst Tory supporters that the unions having any say in running the country is a bad thing. After all they look after the interests of workers. Are we to suppose that the only people to run a country are the people who look after the interests of the employers? If so who looks after the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population? Or do we not matter as long as the wheels of industry keep turning? Governments run countries, yes. But should we not be at least listening to those who represent ordinary people? The problem with governments of all colours but particularly the Tories is that they do not live in our world but they control it. How can they begin to understand the needs of the many when they live and breath and work with the few?
Creating wealth is not a bad thing and is to be encouraged, but when that wealth is spread amongst only a relative handful of people to the detriment of the vast majority we need to have a serious re-think about how we do things.