Agree - it is

This just about sums up where Britain was when she came to power thouugh - what a sad idictment from Callahgan

Over the course of the 1970s, two Prime Ministers, Edward Heath and James Callaghan, had been broken by the trade unions, while a third, Harold Wilson, descended into paranoia. Foreign papers talked of Britain as the Sick Man of Europe. Callaghan himself told his Labour colleagues: "If I were a young man, I would emigrate."

As far as the rules go, it's a website not a democracy - Hambo 3/6/2014

my gran always regreted not buying her council house in the 80s as she was terrified of debt,
shortley after people purchased there council homes interest rates shot through the roof which was convienient,
also divisions were created on council estate as the ones that bought there homes started to look down there noses at those who did not which my gran experienced
40 years ago the majority of council tennants were hard working decent people who kept the other bad eggs in line,

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Haven't posted for a long while but Agree, what a load of b*llocks. Get your facts straight as Two Dogs and Hooch which were the first alchopops, which didn't appear in the UK until 1995 which was 5yrs after she left and only 2yrs before Tony & WW arrived at No 10. Alcho pops were cynically created to raise revenues for the drinks companies (and also taxes) to get youngsters hooked on alcohol to counter-act the vast increase in Ecstacy, LCD, & Speed use which saw a massive downturn in alchohol consumption. Much better in government eyes to have a nation of alcoholics than drug addicts as can earn money out of them.
Oh and by the way it was Very Left Leaning Labour Tony Crosland that started the closure of Grammar schools.
a self-appointed guardian of the socialist conscience, who hated selective education with an arrogance possible only in one whose parents could afford to send him to public school(typical double standards Labour pr*ck really then)

Yeah I read that too and thought the same thing.

Looking back to 1979 it wasn't the ideology of Thatcher that we needed but her strength and ability to get a job done. She was far too right wing and too intransigent to understand and try to look after the country as a whole and to let vast swathes rot after taking away their work and the knock on effects of that was plainly unjust. Those workers had families. And those communities had small businesses dependent on those workers being able to access them financially.

It is almost forgivable when understanding the manufacturing business complexities at the time but dig a little more towards those who were already doing alright Jack - and the extra wealth they were accumulating on the back of her policy of low tax and high unemployment - whilst many millions were living on a meagre few pounds a day after being forced onto the dole, then resentment is surely understandable.

And I'm not talking about the man in the street who did ok. I mean the upper middle and upper already monied classes who suddenly found someone planting even more sackfuls of cash in their already overflowing coffers.

How she slept those 4 hours at night I'll never know.

We needed someone a bit like Thatcher. But not actually her.

Big chest and massive boobs

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Public debt in the 80's was below 50% of GDP, the EU set the maximum at 60% when Thatch signed the Maastricht treaty in 92, so by European terms we were well within acceptable limits. Hardly bankrupt. In fact, we embarked on building the welfare state when our debt was 247% of GDP after ww2, so that is a weak argument.

bollox I'm afraid, alcopops, were appearing well into the late 80's seeing as I lived in New Malden at the time which was home to the Cambridge and Dickerage Road Estates where there were probably more bag ladies , Ciderwomen and general degenerates in the space of a couple of square miles then most London boroughs the Off Licences of The Kingston Road were doing a booming trade selling these drinks back then.

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