I have to agree.....there are some people on here that talk out their backsides and do NOT really know how much maggie did for this country and how she pulled us back from the brink when we were going down the pan due to strikes and nationalised companies that were dragging us down. Many on here that are old enough to have lived through the period she was Prime Minister will know that the unions had virtually taken over the mad house But she took them to task and beat them. Arthur Scargill was on the picket lines with the miners making them attack police and everyone that was not on their side...I know because I was backing the police with fellow marines on the picket lines. The miners got sucked into a situation that they did not really understand but followed that idiot Scargill who incidently got shunned by the unions some years ago due to lining his pockets and bumming accomodation costs through his union funds. He was a total waste of space and did more harm than good. At the time of the strikes coal was going out of fashion anyway due to health worries. in fact the "Green movement" started at that time and was the start of all the "Save the Planet brigade".
A lot of people on here do not really know just how much good maggie did for this country but instead harp on the things she did wrong...NO-ONE is perfect are they?
I would like to think that people on here who are not Conservative would show some respect for her just as Red Ed did yesterday instead of following like sheep and Slagging her off and having street parties.....its a sad thing for our country when people stoop that low and show their barbaric ways.
I have seensome really bad threads on the Holmsdale but this takes the biscuit!!!

I have to agree.....there are some people on here that talk out their backsides and do NOT really know how much maggie did for this country and how she pulled us back from the brink when we were going down the pan due to strikes and nationalised companies that were dragging us down. Many on here that are old enough to have lived through the period she was Prime Minister will know that the unions had virtually taken over the mad house But she took them to task and beat them. Arthur Scargill was on the picket lines with the miners making them attack police and everyone that was not on their side...I know because I was backing the police with fellow marines on the picket lines. The miners got sucked into a situation that they did not really understand but followed that idiot Scargill who incidently got shunned by the unions some years ago due to lining his pockets and bumming accomodation costs through his union funds. He was a total waste of space and did more harm than good. At the time of the strikes coal was going out of fashion anyway due to health worries. in fact the "Green movement" started at that time and was the start of all the "Save the Planet brigade".
A lot of people on here do not really know just how much good maggie did for this country but instead harp on the things she did wrong...NO-ONE is perfect are they?
I would like to think that people on here who are not Conservative would show some respect for her just as Red Ed did yesterday instead of following like sheep and Slagging her off and having street parties.....its a sad thing for our country when people stoop that low and show their barbaric ways.
I have seensome really bad threads on the Holmsdale but this takes the biscuit!!!

Hmm, well I know Cornish and Devon police who were shipped up in Yorkshire at the time who said everything was peaceful up there and the copppers were just talking to the police...then the Met Police aka Thatcher's personal guard, arrived and suddenly all hell broke loose. The cornish police put in a complaint about the Met Police's behaviour for it.

That's the part of Anti-Thatcherism I don't get. Are we really all supposed to be working down the pit in the 21st century? An incredibly hazardous job.

But that's not why she did it is it? She didn't close the pits to save the environment!