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i thought that was bankers,....

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (09 Apr 2013 2.26pm)

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As many have said Thatcher did make decisions that are viewed as mistakes. I certainly believe that.

However, it's constantly forgotten that at the time the choice was between two very different ideologies.

Labour had run the country into the ground. We had the IMF in, the unions were way too powerful.....People are living in la la land if they think that Britain could have continued this way without things spiraling out of control. We were the 'sick man' of Europe.

The working class mainly voted in Thatcher all three times. And that's while she was receiving just as much hate from the usual suspects as she does from a new brigade today.

Jamie thinks that voting Labour in 79 wouldn't have been disastrous....Well, I say the evidence for his optimism is very thin. The loony left held sway in Labour and they were completely opposed to actually confronting and making the hard economic and union decisions that needed to be made.

Sure Thatcher went way too far.....That's what ideology gives us. She did bring in an age of unfairness for many and we live with the mistakes that she started.

However, she dragged a country that was on its knees to one that economically was strong. That needed to happen. Sure we made a lot of decisions that I don't agree with but there is no way in hell that the loony left would have turned us around.....Hell, they even argued over the IMF terms....Madness.

After initially being wrong about the EU and signing away too much she actually saw the disaster that was to befall it way before most others. She held firm on the pound which contributed to a culture where Brown could keep out of the Euro without too much criticism......And thank god for that......We have seven percent youth unemployment, while Spain has twenty eight.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

The policies of the 79 Labour Party were not so much of the loony variety, but they were policies which had been shown to fail. It is very hard to know what would have happened to the labour party if they had won the 79 election because the left was certainly getting stronger but it was the electoral defeat itself which was the catalyst for the takeover by the extremists. Certainly the 83 election was pivotal though. Even if Thatcher's popularity was significantly increased by the Falklands victory, the result was never in doubt. As Gerald Kaufman said, the Labour 1983 manifesto was the longest suicide note in history.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

(Member of the School of Optimism 1969-2016 inclusive)

Just checking: is she still dead?