StevieF8
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Was going to reply NSP, but Petals has summed it up perfectly, and saved me 15 minutes of typing on my iPad. Thanks. As for deliberately setting out to destroy certain sectors, I think she made the tough decisions for the country, as unpopular as they may have been, the UK on the whole is a much better place to live because of those decisions.
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So you would be happy if 2 out of 3 people voted yes and 250,000 people walked off the job?
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And how hard is it for you to get, that for a union to be allowed to deny services to the public, there should be a minimum return on the vote. Why bother paying your membership, if you don't vote? Is putting a tick in a box, and posting it back so hard? Unless they are like you, paying membership for a union disconnected from their actual job, so they just don't bother returning the ballot because it doesn't affect them anyway.
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He would have only been about 4, he wouldn't have got served Mind you, if his parents gave him alcohol back then, it might explain a lot.
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Exactly where did I agree?
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Well they were educated, so that puts them ahead of you for a start....
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If 28% vote in a General Election, it doesn't stop vital services being carried out in the community. People don't pay membership fees to vote in a General Election either btw, I'm still waiting for that link to 61% turnout and the 24/7 link.......
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That may be the case NSP, but she left office nearly 25 years ago...are people still 'suffering' from her policies...I doubt it. There may be the odd miner who decided not to look for another job that lives in hope of the local pit re-opening. I also think Brown did a hell if a lot of damage to this country, I'll discuss his policies now! When he dies I won't be posting on websites I'm glad he's dead...I suppose it's just the nature of people these days.
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So in what way are you affected?
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Which pit were you in that Thatcher closed down? Bet you wasn't even born when she was in power.
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Pathetic answer. So if 3 voted and 2 said yes....then all 250,000 should all go on strike? There should be a minimum return for any strike to be valid....2/3 is a respectable amount.
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Only 28% bothered to vote....pay your fees and don't vote....waste of money. 2/3 should be the return not 1/4
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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) had yet another strike today, they want want a 5% pay rise for all the staff However, only 28% voted, 61% voted in favour of strike action. Only 17% of PCS members voted for a strike, that should be made illegal to strike with those kind of numbers.
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Where did you get those stats from? Link?
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They was out for a month, and if people took their rubbish to the tip, then those pictures wouldn't exist. I haven't excused any Tory balls-up....if you want to discuss them, start a thread and I'll tell you if I agree or not. Unlike you I don't have a party, so I can look at it from both sides, and I won't try and defend them, unless I feel that it's right. Your the one trying to defend Labour after they dragged the country down in the 70's, well them and the unions.
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See if you can find a thatched cottage from that winter with the bin man outside collecting the rubbish.
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All this may well be true, but the damage had already been done, 70-77 unemployment and inflation rose, and the final straw was the winter of discontent....time for change was needed. Perhaps if Labour had stood up to their pay masters in the unions and the strikes that winter hadn't happened or even gone on so long, they may well have won in 1979.
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Look for some better pictures from that winter then and post them if it was all beer & skittles.
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But it really isn't sensationalism is it? That's what Britain was like in 78/79.... I'll read back re your stats....I didn't ignore anything, I haven't seen them....
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Apart from the fact Labour didn't get in until 1997....not 1992. Not sure what happened with the quote... So if I've mis-quoted you, apologies
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Sensationalist? Hahahaha....how much have you smoked? What did you want, pictures of dead bodies piled up? Those strikes/that winter was the catalyst for Thatcher coming in, Labour was run by the Unions, the unions were running the country She got in because Labour had no back-bone to stand up to them....not when they were funding them anyway.
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Before Thatcher..... Trade Unions running, no, ruining the country.
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How have you come to that conclusion?
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Because she stood up to unions, who had the country on its knees...and closing mines that were unprofitable Yes people suffered, they always do when change is brought about, but they were suffering more before she came along
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I thought thay there might be the odd comment, there usually is, but some of them are way over the top and whatever people thought about her, she left the country in a far better condition than when she took over If Cameron loses the next election, will people wait 40-odd years to celebrate his death or will they celebrate when he leaves office? For people to come out and say they have been waiting nearly 25 years for her to die since she left office and to 'celebrate' is sick and I'll bet some of the people saying these things weren't even born when she was in office.
