Fuschia wrote in
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:35:29 GMT, Baz wrote:

"Let It Be" wrote in
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Bob Hobden wrote:
"andy ston" wrote ...

Is it possible to explain to say a child what the legacy of
M.Thatcher was in simple terms?

1. Making trade unions more democratic
2. Not allowing one sided nuclear disarmament.
3. Clearing out some of the influence of the old land owning
classes. Any others spring to mind?
Put the Great back in Britain.

Yep, a country of great greedy *******s - and sod the rest of us!

Stopped us being called the "sick man of Europe" which we certainly

And made us the 'sick man' of the rest of the world with her
policies!

were. Got rampant inflation under control (remember 26%
inflation?).

Yep by increasing VAT from 8% to 17.5%, (which included utilities at
that rate) slamming up my income tax and NI insurance payments, etc,
etc!

Got the countries finances under control.

Yep, sold off the gas, electricity, water and railway companies to
the highest (foreign in general) bidder to do that!

Won three election the last with a bigger majority.

Sne *NEVER* won a majority of the people vote - her 'wins' IIRC were
actually won on low percentage turn-outs!

Bit the bullet and got rid of uneconomic industries that had only
survived with taxpayers money. (harsh but true)

She not only did that, but she also forced economic firms to close
as ell - and to replace them with the thieving banking system that
we now have (exacerbated by new labours policies)

Increased Industrial and coal production over her terms.
(surprising to some)

Yep she closed the countries mines and sold off the steel plants -
and increased the imports of these from China etc.

She did well didn't she, brought out a new 'class' of people called
YUPPIES and then when she closed the factories, mines and
steelworks, she paid for their dole and benefits by using the money
the country made from North Sea oil and gas - and when the dole
queues became too long, she massaged the figures by telling the
medical profession to take them off the dole and sign them onto the
newly invented (just for her) invalidity benefit - thus starting of
the 'benefit culture) that the three stooges we now have in power
are rather clusmsily trying to stop.

No, Maggie wasn't great - just a bloody con artist.- and I won't go
into the other things that she tried to cover-up.





Well said. All of it.
I live in an ex steel town, also close to a ex coal mining town.
We don't mine iron ore any more, we don't use coal for the blast
furnaces anymore. We are a manufacturing community who have been
tought how to fill in or out a form at the unemployment office.
Thank god I was young enough to leave school and actually get a job.


I didn't think we ever did mine iron ore. It was all imported wasn't
it?


A BIG no. Thousands of tons were mined from my hometown, S****horpe,
every week. Dragonby, Santon and Winterton mines enployed 3400 in the
50's and 60's. NOTHING was imported. We, as a town supplied the world
with 72% of its iron ore.

The link below will give you a lighthearted description of what has
become of this once productive town.

http://mirror.uncyc.org/wiki/S****horpe

Of course when Thatcher sold our town it was left up to us to buy back
the iron ore which we had previously sold. At a massive loss. Just to
keep the furnaces fed for a year or two. The town died as a result of
mass reduncies from British Steel.
Baz