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Originally Posted by Eric
Is it that you guys and your government have lost confidence in yourselves?
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Lost confidence? Yes.
Lost direction? Yes.
Lost good political leadership? Yes.
Can we recover? I doubt it. I dread to think of my grandsons future- when he's old enough I'll tell him to go to Canada as I intended doing-a missed opportunity.
To get back on thread- whatever your opinion of her Thatcher saw all this coming.
Her words to BL- 'You're building crap cars nobody wants, you're filling fields with them and they're rusting quicker than an Alfa. You're factories are always shut through strikes. You're unbelievably inefficient and unproductive.Why should the British taxpayers keep pouring their money into you to see it disappear?. It's finished.'
It wrecked thousands of lives, didn't do mine much good either, but somebody had to do something, however much it hurt. The same applied to many other industries.
We were the joke of the world, the Sick Man of Europe. I suppose the Germans are still laughing at us.