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Some mugs still think the MMR injection gives children autism (it doesn't), while others are of the belief that we're ruled by billionaire lizard people. Tell us about views outside the mainstream which people go glassy eyed if you bang on about them (Your grandad's a racist - no need to tell us, thanks)

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(, Thu 25 Apr 2013, 12:06)
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She didn't destroy the Unions.
After all, they still exist.

What she did was remove their power to bring the country to it's knees. People seem to forget what the unions did in causing the three day week, rolling blackouts and garbage not being collected for weeks at a time. England in the 1970's was not a pleasant place and the unions had a big hand in that.
(, Sat 27 Apr 2013, 13:53, 1 reply)
This
Well put. Let's recognise the truth here - some of us were not only alive through that period, but were cognisant of the social situation. The coal mines were virtually empty, the Unions were screwing the country for more money for doing less work, and the UK was heading for a big, big fall. MT did some hard, hard things - a lot of people lost their cosy, overpaid sinecure type jobs. It was a rough, rough time.

But every issue and drug problem in every ex-mining town is not directly attributable to Margaret Thatcher's actions, as many bitter and twisted ex-NUM shop steward would have you believe. To publicly celebrate her death is not only distastful, but also childish.

Those that protested by turning their back on the funeral cortege made their point with great human dignity and get my respect.
(, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 8:30, closed)
Hahahahahah.
The mines were virtually empty? Bollocks, it was simply cheaper AT THE TIME to import coal from Poland. Once the mines were shut the price of importing it skyrocketed, much the same as getting our gas from the Russians and our electricity from the French.
The unions were screwing the country for more money for less work? Well, now it's bankers, politicians and 'consultants' doing the same, and they've cost the country one fuck of a lot more than the unions ever did.
The plain fact is that in destroying our industries she DID fuck over every industrial town and city in Britain, because when you close a mine or a factory there is a knock on effect to ALL the businesses in that area. And turning practically an entire generation from being tax-payers to a tax burden is hardly a sound economic policy, and led directly to the massive welfare bill that we're still picking up today.
I note that you've kept schtumm about her glorious policies of privatisation of the railways, water, gas and electricity, because they've saved the taxpayer/consumer so much money over the years, haven't they? Oh, wait.
(, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 11:13, closed)

Damn Straight
(, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 12:34, closed)

....and Russia is such a great place to grow up in and live. No social problems at all.
(, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 15:57, closed)
Sheesh. Russia hasn't even pretended to be Communist since the late 1980's.
In fact with the oligarchs and mafiyaniks under Yeltsin and now Putin you could say that the Russians whole-heartedly embraced Thatcherism.
(, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 16:59, closed)
But hey, as long as some vastly overpaid clerical workers in London are happy, everyone else can go hang.

(, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 20:47, closed)

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