I cant wait for

i had chinese food when it happened to me under the last Labour government

aparrently if its doesnt agree with any one else you cant have that opinion

 

Good choice. Can I have chinese for my main course and jelly and ice cream as dessert if it happens to me?

I have an amazing knack of taking any thread off in a random direction

 

She didn't really 'set out' to destroy the mining industry, but granted, she eventually did.. She set out to curb the power of the unions, which were essentially far too powerful, in some eyes. Scargill has a lot to answer for. But what do I know, I only study economic history.

 

of course you can

 

Wrong - she did set out to destroy it
When scargill announced that they were planning to close 70 mines the torys said that was incorrect and not true / how right they were ! It was 200,000 jobs and 135 mines
Never planned though
And today we have costly electricity produced from gas - great plan eh ?

 

as an ex miner I really am stumped as to how scargill is to blame for shutting the pits.I cant remember scargill once agreeing with a single pit closure,not once.

 

She set out to turn us in to a post-industrial economy within a staggeringly unrealistic and utterly negligent timescale which devastated vast numbers of once proud communities and continues to do so today. Thatcherism is the flawed ideology which sadly keeps on giving.

 

thats why were buying our power from the french now

 

I don't want to be seen as taking any particular stance, right nor left. But I like to look at facts. She took us from the brink of bankruptcy, to being the third richest country in Europe. Where all levels on income were higher. Certainly, for those workers and families, I can only sympathise (Most of my family were involved in the mining industry).
Scargill REALLY didn't help the workers' cause.

 

She did set out to ruin the mining industry. Simply to pay the miners back for getting rid of the previous Tory government

 

Time to put you on the ignore list

The USA must have addled your brain

 

And you have this on good authority do you? I'll sit down then, it seems conclusive.

 

As many will know I am pro Tory but not on this issue. Yes I would say the evidence was fairly conclusive

 

cecil Parkinson in 1993 (when the tories were shutting 30 profit making pit in one go) said that while you are all feeling sorry for the miners you are forgetting what they did in 72 and 74,,enough said really and it was conformation of what we already knew,that the pits were being closed for political not economic reasons

 

Obviously she didn't affect your family and you have no regard for the people of this town who suffered and are still suffering in a lot of cases where's your sympathy for them ,your own townspeople you era in the proper country for you pease don't come back

 

me neither, both had a lot to answer for IMHO

 

He was right though

 

in 1993 we were already importing the equivalent in electricity from france that would have kept 7 of those profitable pits open.

 

I wouldn't be so sure.
How about the tens of pits that were closed from 65-71 under a Labour government? They were making huge losses, but I assume thats fine?