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Originally Posted by garinda
I wasn't around in the second world war, but I still have an opinion about it. Shakermaker is allowed his view just as everyone else is. Age is not a barrier to having a point of view.
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Ohh here we go again. You know perfectly well that I in no way would seek to limit anyone's right to express an opinion on anything. And by the way, the "Winter of Discontent" is generally ascribed to the terminal period of Callaghan's government, not Ted Heath's.
I took issue with Shakermaker because I am weary of hearing what a tool of the devil Margaret Thatcher was. It's an easy, sloppy and unthinking observation. Yes, they were difficult times to have to live through and they were not made any easier by the bloody mindedness of union bosses and the people they led. But we
did live through them and we emerged stronger because of it. I am not saying that Margaret Thatcher was a saint, far from it, but she wasn't the spawn of satan either! And considering that the alternative was Neil Kinnock I think we did pretty well.