maggie thatcher

[Graham 777]

RIP the only decent prime minister I can remember this country having. I wish to God we had one now.

I'm 63 (& from the S Wales valleys BTW) & can remember the mess the Soviet inspired unions had got this country into during the 60's & 70's.

She was just about the only politician I've ever had respect for: she spoke her mind & acted from conviction. These days no one does or says anything unless the party line OKs it. Tw*ts, the lot of them.

 

Agreed mate a fantastic leader ! the trade union's wielded far too much "power" and especially the "miner's" they used to hold the country to ransom with their "strike's" depriving the power station's of fuel..... British Leyland were always on "walkout"......I'm old enough to remember these thing's, she did give the union's plenty of chances to tow the line and be more reasonable they decided to fight....they LOST !! a lesser leader would of "buckled" but not Maggie a true leader as the Argentinian's found out !! R.I.P. Maggie a "Great Briton"

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Tonight I shall go and have a drink for Margaret Thatcher's death. I shall raise my glass to the night sky, and THANK HER, and celebrate her life. People on this seem to have a very strange view of history. So here are a few little nuggets with how and more specifically WHY a lot of industries were destroyed by her, and what's more, ...destroyed with the MANDATE OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE. The seventies were blighted by the trade unions waiting for winter and then coming out on strike at it's heart. Holding the country to ransom for ANNUAL pay rises of up to 36% ABOVE inflation. This was the likes of Scargill and co. And they bled us dry. We were bankrupted by them. And then the Winter of Discontent happened. And they ALL came out. Miners, power workers, transport workers; even funeral directors, everything tied into the TGWU came out. My own grandparents lay on a slab for 2 months waiting to be buried. The entire country was a ruin. Rubbish not collected for months, rats everywhere. And the unions laughed, and brought down Callaghan's Labour Government. And Thatcher stood up at the General Election and made ONE SIMPLE PROMISE. Elect me. And THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. ELECT ME AND I WILL DESTROY THEM. She won a landslide. On that promise.And she became the last elected Prime Minister to actually hold true to her election promise. She did exactly what she said. She utterly destroyed the unions. Obliterated them. The cost was those industries. We knew that would be the price. But we would not allow them to hold us to ransom again. What she did, she did with our BLESSING. The socialists and people who backed those strikes have only themselves to blame for what happened. Baroness Thatcher didn't destroy those industries and communities for fun or as part of a class war. She did it to stop them holding the country to ransom again. And then she held the purse strings tight and re-built the economy and the country and Britain again stood tall and thrived. And we won back the global respect we had lost while the left wing ruled. In the Falklands we were thankful for her being in office. Those of us who went 'south' in '82 did so knowing we had a leader who would not - and did not- interfere. She sent the military and allowed us to do our job. Gave us the money, the equipment and most of all THE FREEDOM to get the job done. Our lands had been invaded. We had a gun up our nose. SHE led us. Frankly Thatcher took a very broken Britain by the hand like a strict old fashioned Matron and LED THE COUNTRY BACK TO WHERE IT HAD ONCE BEEN. We were the worlds 3rd major power in ALL respects. And as for the world, it has NEVER been safer than when Thatcher was in Downing Street, Reagan was in the White House and Gorbachev was in the Kremlin as the three spoke DAILY. They laid the ground for the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Russians were TERRIFIED of her. And the world again feared Britain. And lets not forget that she gave people the full right to buy their own council property. Her vision was that the TENNANT and the tennant alone could buy that property.As soon as her party stabbed her in the back the feeding frenzy began as under her the famous Tory grandee greed was held in check. So they stabbed her, led by the europro traitor ponce Heseltine - who didn't have the guts to face her openly and alone - they arranged her removal. And we have been a broken patsy for europe ever since. So yes, tonight I will celebrate the death of Baroness Thatcher, with thanks, with respect, and with sadness, because she allowed me to know what we could be, what we could achieve, what it meant to be BRITISH

Not written by me but says a lot i think!

 

absolutely superb

[Graham 777]

absolutely superb

 

Ditto

[Marko]

I've heard another day of venom being spat across the airwaves.

 

What I don't understand was that if MT really did pull the rug from under the working class why is it that in the 10 years Mr Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was in charge did all this 'oppressive' anti union legislation not get unpicked?

 

Perhaps it is an inconvenient truth that all parties accepted that it had to be done but no one else had the balls.

[arbogrunt]

great post adbat!...My Dad was RAF when I was a kid...I remember MT getting in and giving the Forces a 35% payrise...we we're always very short of money for food, clothes etc...and this really helped. Something I never understood...if the mines were profitable and should never have been closed...why didn't Labour re-open them in their 10 years in office?...likewise, Polltax...its now called Council tax...why didn't they get rid of it?..maybe someone with a bit more knowledge can answer these questions?

[Graham]

Tonight I shall go and have a drink for Margaret Thatcher's death. I shall raise my glass to the night sky, and THANK HER, and celebrate her life. People on this seem to have a very strange view of history. So here are a few little nuggets with how and more specifically WHY a lot of industries were destroyed by her, and what's more, ...destroyed with the MANDATE OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE. The seventies were blighted by the trade unions waiting for winter and then coming out on strike at it's heart. Holding the country to ransom for ANNUAL pay rises of up to 36% ABOVE inflation. This was the likes of Scargill and co. And they bled us dry. We were bankrupted by them. And then the Winter of Discontent happened. And they ALL came out. Miners, power workers, transport workers; even funeral directors, everything tied into the TGWU came out. My own grandparents lay on a slab for 2 months waiting to be buried. The entire country was a ruin. Rubbish not collected for months, rats everywhere. And the unions laughed, and brought down Callaghan's Labour Government. And Thatcher stood up at the General Election and made ONE SIMPLE PROMISE. Elect me. And THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. ELECT ME AND I WILL DESTROY THEM. She won a landslide. On that promise.And she became the last elected Prime Minister to actually hold true to her election promise. She did exactly what she said. She utterly destroyed the unions. Obliterated them. The cost was those industries. We knew that would be the price. But we would not allow them to hold us to ransom again. What she did, she did with our BLESSING. The socialists and people who backed those strikes have only themselves to blame for what happened. Baroness Thatcher didn't destroy those industries and communities for fun or as part of a class war. She did it to stop them holding the country to ransom again. And then she held the purse strings tight and re-built the economy and the country and Britain again stood tall and thrived. And we won back the global respect we had lost while the left wing ruled. In the Falklands we were thankful for her being in office. Those of us who went 'south' in '82 did so knowing we had a leader who would not - and did not- interfere. She sent the military and allowed us to do our job. Gave us the money, the equipment and most of all THE FREEDOM to get the job done. Our lands had been invaded. We had a gun up our nose. SHE led us. Frankly Thatcher took a very broken Britain by the hand like a strict old fashioned Matron and LED THE COUNTRY BACK TO WHERE IT HAD ONCE BEEN. We were the worlds 3rd major power in ALL respects. And as for the world, it has NEVER been safer than when Thatcher was in Downing Street, Reagan was in the White House and Gorbachev was in the Kremlin as the three spoke DAILY. They laid the ground for the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Russians were TERRIFIED of her. And the world again feared Britain. And lets not forget that she gave people the full right to buy their own council property. Her vision was that the TENNANT and the tennant alone could buy that property.As soon as her party stabbed her in the back the feeding frenzy began as under her the famous Tory grandee greed was held in check. So they stabbed her, led by the europro traitor ponce Heseltine - who didn't have the guts to face her openly and alone - they arranged her removal. And we have been a broken patsy for europe ever since. So yes, tonight I will celebrate the death of Baroness Thatcher, with thanks, with respect, and with sadness, because she allowed me to know what we could be, what we could achieve, what it meant to be BRITISH

Not written by me but says a lot i think!

 

To whoever penned that Her time in office was the last time any of us should have been proud to be British.

[Warners]

:001_smile:ditto again to the above by adbat234.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[geoff]

:001_smile:ditto again to the above by adbat234.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Me 2.

[skyhuck]

great post adbat!...My Dad was RAF when I was a kid...I remember MT getting in and giving the Forces a 35% payrise...we we're always very short of money for food, clothes etc...and this really helped. Something I never understood...if the mines were profitable and should never have been closed...why didn't Labour re-open them in their 10 years in office?...likewise, Polltax...its now called Council tax...why didn't they get rid of it?..maybe someone with a bit more knowledge can answer these questions?

 

Not so, the Polltax was on people not houses, so has gone.

[eggsarascal]

great post adbat!...My Dad was RAF when I was a kid...I remember MT getting in and giving the Forces a 35% payrise...we we're always very short of money for food, clothes etc...and this really helped. Something I never understood...if the mines were profitable and should never have been closed...why didn't Labour re-open them in their 10 years in office?...likewise, Polltax...its now called Council tax...why didn't they get rid of it?..maybe someone with a bit more knowledge can answer these questions?

 

She gave the Forces a 35% pay rise because she was a war monger.

 

The reason that Labour did not reopen the mines was because all the equipment was left under ground and all the pumps were switched off flooding the mines when they were closed. It would cost way to much money to reopen the mines.

 

Just to add. None of my family (alot of them miners) were fans of Scargill. He was as bad a rouge as Thatcher.

 

One of my uncles was on strike for over twelve months, he wanted to go to work every day as did many other miners but the threat of having their houses burnt down by other miners was the deciding factor. Miners were waiting on bridges to drop lumps of concrete etc on other miners cars if they thought they were going to cross the picket line. I can remember more than one miner getting killed by things being thrown from bridges in my home town.

 

Unless you lived in these areas during the strike you would not understand how bad things were. There are still families that hate one and other over what went on at the time of the strike.