One man's news report, is another man's poorly worded rhetoric printed on a cheap flyer then posted on the internet.

What you say must be true, how could I have doubted you, with such over whelming proof that socialism is the answer. Nick you’re a bright bloke and I like to think I have my moments, however you steadfastly refuse against all the proof, to accept that she did any good at all.

I freely admit she was a bit of a dragon, and got some things wrong and was over zealous on others, but she did make some very important changes for the good of the country at that time. Whether what she did fell into what is acceptable in your political spectrum is frankly immaterial, it needed doing.

It wasn't until the greedy b******s in her own cabinet conspired against her that her idea of capitalism went too far and unchecked. if you want to hate anyone, hate Heseltine he's the real villain of the peace.

And just so we are absolutely clear, I am no mug, and make my own conclusions from the same media you do, we arrive at different opinions as the world is full of different people, not divided into mugs, and those who think they have all the answers.

Toodle pip.

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

I don't actually hate anyone, if anything, I hate unbridled capitalism that allows the few to do well and let many many others fall by the wayside.
I also hate the way that the media is skewed to turn people against each other in order to deflect from the unbridled capitalism that is going on.

I still maintain we are not being told the full truth of the state of the nations finances in the media, we have been in far worse positions than this yet didn't need to go through these tough austerity measures to get through them.

As for Thatch, maybe she did what she thought was needed, and yes I admit the unions did hold too much sway at the time of her coming into power, but I still think she did more harm than good.

From the ultimate in slogan-mongering, unreconstructed pravda loyalists!

I am having this nickgusset post stuffed and mounted on my wall.

...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...

Even worse - a left wing blog!

No from a save the children report on child poverty.
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Some facts which people may want to dispute re coal mining industry.

"346,000 miners left the industry between 1963 and 1968, in 1967 there were 12,900 forced redundancies. Under the prime minister during that period, Harold Wilson, one pit closed every week yet there are few people planning trips to his grave with their tap shoes.

"In 1981 an attempt was made to impose cash limits on subsidies to industry. The NUM called for strike action and the Conservatives gave in. £50 million was given to industries which switched from cheap oil to expensive coal, early retirement payments were upped to £36,000 and £200 million was injected into the industry.

"Companies who had gone abroad to buy coal, such as the Central Electricity Generating Board, were banned from bringing it in and 3 million tonnes of coal piled up at Rotterdam at a cost to the British taxpayer of £30 million per year.

"The industry was, by now, losing £1.2 million per day. Its interest payments amounted to £467 million for the year and the NCB needed a grant of £875 million from the taxpayer.

"The Monopolies and Mergers Commission found that 75% of British pits were losing money. The reason wasn’t hard to find. By 1984 it cost £44 to mine a metric ton of British coal. America, Australia and South Africa were selling it on the world market for £32 a metric ton. Productivity increases had come in at 20% below the level set in 1974 Plan for Coal.

"We were subsidising the mining industry to the tune of £1.3 billion a year. This figure doesn’t include the vast cost to taxpayer funded industries such as steel and electricity which were obliged to buy British coal. When Arthur Scargill was called before a Parliamentary committee and asked at what level of loss it was acceptable to close a pit he answered “As far as I can see, the loss is without limits”.

"So the industry had been in decline for decades and was haemorraging cash."