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Originally Posted by Mancie
I'm sure it was a joke for Maggie, Cecil, Norman,and all the cabinet at the time.. but no joke for the 3 and half million people put on the dole.. some of us do remember Cfyr.. aint your dad told you?
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I didn't realise you were refering to then.
I was only a baby during the late Thatcher years and Major, but I have read about the years quite a lot, both from biased (both sides) and unbiased points of view.
Yes, the way Thatcher went about things made many people unemployed, but the previous socialist government had wrecked the economy, was keeping millions of people in work when there was no profit to be made. How are you supposed to sustain millions of workers who are a burden on your ecnonomy because your throwing money at them when you could get coal etc cheaper elsewhere?
If it wasn't for Thatcher we wouldnt be where we are now I personaly believe. Industry has declined around the globe never mind just the UK. The service sector has boomed since the 1980's and nobody can say that a heck of a lot of us are better off because of the Thatcher years and Blair years who thank god ensured that we proberbly won't have another socialist government again, I'm pleased he didn't do a U-turn on Thatcherism.
Now I give her a lot of praise, but of course she did stupid things. By the end of her term she introduced the poll tax, which I completly don't agree with. It's enevitable that people will be richer than others, and theres no reason why the poorer people have to suffer, we all have the same rights regardless of income. Richer people should have to pay more money, it's not that they won't miss the money, they will just suffer a LOT less than taking it from poorer people, common sense
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At the end of the day, our move out of industry had to happen.
Norman Lamont was nothing more than a victem of time. You should really blame Goldman Sachs for the black wednesday affair