Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

You're struggling a bit here, cashman.

Are you saying she changed basic human nature in just 11 years- Quite an achievement.

Before her we were all unselfish, loving, caring teddy bears? I think not.

Have you thought of anything Labour did cancel or reverse yet?

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

Thatcher took the free milk from our school children . Labour reversed this by putting free fresh fruit and veg in schools for every pupil.

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

No i'm not struggling a bit,n yes she did change human nature a great deal wi a great many, n as fer before yer telling lies which don't surprise me, cos i said some were that way before Thatcher, you are probably a case in point.:rolleyes:

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

That's good- someone has finally thought of one small thing. It's a start.

Now come up with some major policy change. I'm sure you can do better than free milk.

Actually, nobody had moaned about her stopping free milk so it's a good one.

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

Point of order here: She cut school milk rather than the school budget. The milk was never free.
Give me books and teachers over that everytime.

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

Piece in todays Guardian I paraphrase and plagarise:

Britain was battered out of the somnolent conservatism, across a wide front of economic policies and priorities, that held back progress and arguably prosperity.
Thatcherism imposed for better or for worse some of the liberalisation that the major continental economies know 20 years later on balance were for the better, and so plainly did Thatchers chief successor Tony Blair.
If a leader's record is to be measured by the willingnes of the other side to decide it cannot turn back the clock, then Baroness Thatcher bulks big in history. :)

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

No you fool, the guys he is referring to were brave and heroic men. They worked for me and I am very proud of the commitment and dedication that they showed. Not all miners were like Scargill or one or two of the flying pickets. How dare you disrespect these guys who worked in conditions that you would run away from. These guys saved a colliery and the jobs of 1500 men. Without any hesitation and thought for their own safety and without reward. You I remember from the 60s and you havent changed one bit. How dare you.

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

I think you need to reread my post Mog no disrespect to your colleagues in there.
But there are a couple of things we agree on though Arthur Scargill was a vain and foolish man playing with his members lives without a mandate.
Hey and I have no wish to change your perceptions of me either.

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

Lies? Which of my 'lies' doesn't surprise you? I wasn't aware I'd told any. If you can point one out I will, of course, apologise.
If you can't, I will ask my second to call on yours tomorrow- will pistols at 25 paces suit you?

As for 'case in point'- yes, I always believed in kicking them to death on your way up- that way they won't be waiting for you on your way down.

In fact, I always liked the saying N.L.T.B.G.Y.D.- how about you?

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

This one, its what i said. The last sentence i refer too.

Yep ive always lived by N.L.T.B.G.Y.D. n it seems to work well.

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

Actually I missed the most important bit-' only do it FIRST'.

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

;) Use sables guys then you can tickle each other to death.

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

Ah, the "Ode to Odium" continues apace I see. So much Spleen smeared across these pages, I can't help but contemplate our modern society.

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

Each to his own- I can be quite an artist with a sabre. Used to be quite good with pistols, too.

Re: Margaret Thatcher
 

At the end of the day - the Thatcher boom years were paid for by the sale of North Sea Gas - now we are all paying through the nose for energy after she privatised it all. The shares are now mainly in the hands of big business not the hands of the Common people as her policy was supposed to do. Also many council flats are also in the hands of mega-rich property developers and landlords - while now all over the land there is a shortage of council properties after Thatcher banned the building of new ones. Oh yeah ;)