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blackburn understands what he's on about even if nobody else does :^0
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I personally am glad that no British man has to go down a mine ..
not for any other reason than it was a terrible way of trying to earn a living ..just about every miner you can speak to will tell you THEY never wanted their sons to go down a mine .. as stated up there ^^ by someone ..secretly they are pleased their descendants are out of it .... but would never openly shout it out for "fear of letting their mates down"... A lot of us can remember when the miners brought the darkness and lack of heat to this country in long stretches every SINGLE day during a part of the 1970's , just to bring Ted Heath's Govt to its knees because he was a Tory .... Sod everyone else ...we are the miners and we are the Power ... Maggie decided to end all that .. -------- When Unions were set up to better the Hours , conditions and pay of workers they were BRILLIANT ...when they went political with a political agenda and the militants took over ..they lost the plot ... The main thing that broke the Unions , and their greatest power "The Strike "....was the introduction of a postal or secret Ballot on strikes .. when people didn't have to put their hand up in front of the aggressive militants -- but could vote the way they felt without the Bully Boys watching and fully intimidating them !!.... |
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The treatment of people returning to work and breaking to the strike was terrible. The actions of Scargill equally so. The destruction of communities by the Prime minister and Police at the time was hardly on the moral high ground. A shameful period of the countries history all round. The reports of near civil war although mainly for headlines where not overly exaggerated. A time the country had probably not recovered from yet.
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overboard 05 Jan 16:33
................... Smashed the left into the long grass from which they have never, and can never, return. Hence Nu-Labour--- poor man's Tories. But in doing so she did so much damage to British industry, that it has never, and can never recover. Hence the state the country has been in since. |
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too simplistic hoss.
We were on our way out of manufacturing . We had 100 years leading the way in the field but we were never going to be able to compete with the Asian countries as their costs are subsidised and their direct costs (labour) are a fraction of ours. And they don't have layers of EU bureaucracy to make them uncompetitive . It's happening to them now as a fair bit of metal bashing is being transferred to Brazil,where it is even cheaper than Korea to manufacture cars . |
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Yes there were external factors involved but other European countries' industries managed to survive, and with far stronger unions than we ever had.
Maggie's blind hatred of unions was a definite factor in the demise of big industry in this country. |
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We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty
Margaret Thatcher on the miners' strike To describe thousand's of decent hard working people as the enemy within turns my stomach. The evil old bag spent much more money on closing the mines than it would have cost to keep them open. Not all striking miners were militants, just good people fighting for their jobs and communities, and yet people on here support the full weight of the state and it agencies being used to crush and then rub the faces in the dirt of many thousands of good people as payback for the victories of the miners over previous Tory governments. How ironic that the supporters of Thatcher who no doubt moan about immigration and foreigners coming over here pinching our jobs seem happy about selling out the miners for cheap foreign coal. |
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blackburn we know you are all ears you feckin donkey,
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very valuable sums it up he made a pile,thats why we live in a disgusting selfish me, me society which maggie created, the best thing which could have happened to this country would have been to let the bankers go to the wall and the best survive
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very valuable you are a feckin clueless**,did you go to an all boys school like blackburn ,and therefore have a complex concerning dominant women , freud would have books worth of theories with your anally retentive ,dominatrix,maggie knew best whip me whip me fantasies,
when the **s stained old harridan goes i will have a party to celebrate whilst yourself blackie and cecil parkinson are mourning her demise, ps what odds will you give me on the treble thatch to die in 2010 rangers to win the league and tory front bencher to be caught in gay sex scandal. |
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^ weird ^
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flush gordon
are you posting from droadmoor by any chance ? |
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'Broadmoor'
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bentley boy
that quote referred to NUM lunatic leaders like scargill not the rank and file working miner and you know it |
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run along and play with seaman staines and master bates- bosom and i do mean bosum
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oh dear
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very-valuable 05 Jan 15:59
The ******** should think themselves lucky that they have nice cosy jobs in call centres. Think of the advatages nice and warm in winter,no need to take a bath after work and no nasty lung disease. They have never had it so good ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What else do you expect from a pig but grunts. Watch out for Swine Flu v-v |
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Bosun,
No it did not, she did not qualify the quote at all , and your admiration for the mad old bag is ridiculous.If she was such a good PM why was she sacked by Tory MP's? |
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it was a terrible and mistake and most tories still love her.a magnificent stateswoman and so badly missed i am sure you will agree
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Bosun,It was no mistake she had to go,she was no great stateswoman,and no I dont miss her and yes I am a tory!
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she is wallowing in her own** and ** at the moment why dont you volunteer to empty her magnificent nappy bosum?
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Blackburn I knew I wouldn't have to wait long, you sad tossbag, for the name calling to start. Why, you silly arsewipe, do you find it so impossible to post without insulting? It seriously makes your (to be fair, usually completely uninformed and ridiculous waste of typing) point even less valid. Having said that the points (?) made by you are barely worth responding to.
Apart from the few non-stop right wingers you grovel and creep to, you just irritate people into response. Me included. You said something ridiculous earlier in this thread, which lots of people picked up on, and as always you cannot concede the fact, but resort, like the twunt you are, to calling me names or generally insulting. Don't let any of this bother you though - not that you will, you're too stupid to take notice. |
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Never the same after the split with Cheggars.
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she and her policies promoted greed and the "i'm alright jack feck you" syndrome. the social cost is massive. every fecker is out for themselves now.
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most are on Betfair, oddly enough!
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Funny all these condemning" greed" ,attempting to steal a living on betfair ;) .
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Maggie's fault innit! :p
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so greed is good is it?
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the grief displayed by the forum at the tragic loss of the likes of jade goody and kiddy-fiddler jackson will be nothing compared to the sorry day that the iron lady is scrapped.
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How nostalgic we can be for the days when unions were fighting for the workers.............like dropping breeze blocks on cars on the M4 killing taxi drivers ?????? That's why maggie was valued so highly,she took all that on and beat thugs and bullies.
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Thatcher was the most UNpopular PM in modern history - in Scotland. For more reasons than just the Poll Tax. She and her right wing ilk contributed to the greatest redistribution of wealth in history from the poorest to the richest. And you muppets praise her?
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well said tipping the odds...she urinated on decent and vulnerable people from a great height..informed them it was raining and most of the gullible eejits believed her.
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She sold them their own property and they borrowed the money at interest to buy it. Gas, electric, phones, etc. No wonder she's in nappies, she must be**iing herslf laughing.
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Maggie
love her or hae her - you gotta admire her for what she was Wouldnt s hag her tho- would yer???? |
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hate even
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i will dance on her grave...rather looking forward too it.
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Hope she dies in summer. Wouldn't want a street party in this weather.
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Biggest Party since end of WWII....when she goes...
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fine figure of a woman in her day
and a great pm too |
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ffs you must be easily pleased mallard .
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