...and then emigrated after Thatcher's utopia ended presumably?

Block B comment of 2011/2012 Season:

"That's better Palace, better...but still fucking shit!"

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Dann to Much, Much to Yong.

isn't it ironic that the various news channels keep replaying clips of the vulgar Harry Enfield character! what a legacy.

Portillo's teeth removed to boost pound

Boy roasts himself in sacrifice to Chris Kelly

Thank f*** for that - she's still dead. I thought it may have just been a dream.

The bitch is dead and about f***ing time.

Does anyone actually remember how unpopular Thatcher was before the Argentinian move on the Falklands/Malvinas? At that time she was the least popular PM since 1945. She had tried to front up against the steel workers but been forced to back down. The one name that hasn't figured in these posts is perhaps the most significant of all -Nicholas Ridley. He drafted the Ridley Plan which set out the methodology of taking on the unions. During the 1970's he was linked to a group of ex-army officers, large land owners and right-wing MPs centred in Wiltshire who made contingency plans for civil war. With Thatcher's election it was thought that the civil war could be waged through parliamentary means -instead of creating the excuse for a coup d'etat - backed up by forces of law. Initially this group felt extremely disappointed in the Tory leader.
Ridley expected it to be a physical affair and planned the policing accordingly. It was his aim to have the miners crushed. They heroically stood out for a year but the other trade union leaders, though providing funds for the strikers' families refused to give them what they needed - support through joint strike action. And the Kent miners Kerms were heroic in their stance -isolated geographically from the other minefields but remaining solid.
Of course road blocks were put on all roads to Deal and checks to see if any miners were coming to Kent in solidarity were forcibly turned back, if that was too much hassle, windscreens or tyres were dealt with.

When the Falklands/Malvinas war had ended and the troops returned to Portsmouth there was a rail strike taking place. The troops placed a banner over the side of their aircraft carrier, it read. "You say rail strike -we say air strike", indicating where their loyalties lay.

Thatcher's government marked the disolution of the idea of social cohesion, and instead promoted the rise of self interested individualism. The 'I'm alright Jack' mentality, that has increasingly grown to dominate society ever since, creating the grounds for what Bauman identifies as post-industrial social division of a consumer society of the seduced and the oppressed.

The privitisition of utility companys represeted the true ideology of thatcher, the Corporate State, in which the people and the electorate become secondary concerns to the financial powers in the country. Government would no longer represent society, and values would be assessd largely in terms of financial return (a policy continued under Major and then Blair).

Unlike Heath before her, she would abandon the notion of a National Duty to all, for promotion of supporters, at the cost of those who wouldn't vote conservative, embracing the false notions of 'The Trickle Down Effect' and the ideals of Moneytarism over Keynesian ecconomic provision. Unsuprisingly this resulted in an increasing phenomina of underclass and disparity that has continued into the present.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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And who brought in the disability allowance? Mrs T did. Her heart was, for once, in the right place but its weak and full of holes implementation meant that quite a few would put self interest first and look to make some easy cash. An unattractive human trait which she actively encouraged so why Tories complain about them I don't know.

Edited by Kermit8 (09 Apr 2013 10.44am)

Big chest and massive boobs

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