Fedayn
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In most cases it's merely the retelling of an incident/conversation. In this case I think it's the complete fabrication of an incident and the re-writing of history after the event to make someon look good.
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In most cases it's merely the retelling of an incident/conversation. In this case I think it's the complete fabrication of an incident and the re-writing of history after the event to make someon look good.
rioted
redundant
No, that was the day years before when miners werte chanting " Arthur Scargill walks on water"
No, that was the day years before when miners werte chanting " Arthur Scargill walks on water"
Nowt wrong with Arthur
rioted
redundant
He doesn't fucking walk on water though!!!!
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Bus services in Leeds did improve from "abyssmal" to just "really bad" to be fair though.
Presumably you meant dementia not "dementure"
It's amazing just how many of these policies were reversed by Labour when they got into power. Now there was....... Or maybe....... - nope they're perfectly happy with her adjustments to British Society and economics, thanks.....
OTM. I think it was either her or Major, but Bliar and Brown have perpetuated it.
I'm a bit young to remember her time in office, but did she set a precedent for the Bliar-Bush arse-licking with her relationship with Reagan?
DownwardDog
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Hey Cobbles, just cos we're perhaps having a wry chuckle at Thatcher's sufferingand listing all the shit she did, doesn't mean we're fans of Labour. <puke>.
But if it was all so transparently evil and wrong why couldn't the Labour party get elected on a program that would reverse them?
liampreston
Spend time, not money
One of Major's last achievements was the Railways Act. T'was his fault.
You mean the 1983 and 1987 elections?
Cos by the time of the 90s, there had been a sea change in Labour.
Oh now Margaret dear, this is the cupboard under the sink with the rat poison, you wouldn't want to stir some into your cocoa thinking it was sugar would you.
october_lost
It's not hip any more...
You could have opted out.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
According to this, free or subsidised milk is available at school:
I can't think too many would actually drink it though.
I can't think too many would actually drink it though.
Threshers_Flail
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Our representatives are now trying to force nationalised rail in countries in the EU to privatise. Fucking shame, nationalised rail is amazing, I know its not the most important thing but it does make life a hall of a lot easier.
(Waves fist at neo-liberal scum.)
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
WTF do you think they were doing before?It's the kids of the miners I feel sorry for; having to find other jobs, perhaps staying at school longer than the minimum, maybe even facing the horrors of university, little or no chance of emphysema and chronic bronchitis, having to consider there is a world outside the pit village . . . nightmares like opportunity, aspiration . . .
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
You don't actually know what you're talking about, do you? When the pits were closed, the miners, their families and the towns they lived in were effectively abandoned. Closing a mine should have meant taking responsibility for the communities (and this overused word is appropriate here) that only existed because of the mines. Thatcher did no such thing. On yer bike was cunt Tebbit's best suggestion. Many towns in the South Wales valleys still haven't recovered.
It's the kids of the miners I feel sorry for; having to find other jobs, perhaps staying at school longer than the minimum, maybe even facing the horrors of university, little or no chance of emphysema and chronic bronchitis, having to consider there is a world outside the pit village . . . nightmares like opportunity, aspiration . . .
Your glib tone is misplaced.
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
What you talking about? Fucking aspirational places those ex-pit villages.
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mmmm, thatcher...made the UK competitive...the city being THE financial centre for everyone to come and work... I'm not working working with an egyptian guy, a french guy and an irish girl...and i thank mrs t for that....if it wasn't for her all these people would live somewhere else
editor
hiraethified
Of course! And everyone in the Valleys is just sooo much happier now, aren't they?
Karamazov#1
Good, Bad and Ugly
Ever taken a look outside of the square mile old chap?
chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
It's the kids of the miners I feel sorry for; having to find other jobs, perhaps staying at school longer than the minimum, maybe even facing the horrors of university, little or no chance of emphysema and chronic bronchitis, having to consider there is a world outside the pit village . . . nightmares like opportunity, aspiration . . .
1. Mining was (and is) subject to the health and safety law same as any other industry.
2. There's no more vital work in a high tech society, which you, mate, take full advantage of, than digging up coal, sucking up oil or burrowing out uranium. Don't like it? Wind your computer up by hand before posting. Lots of the workers in the mining industry were pretty well educated, mate, as is fitting in a technical set up.
Oh and to add to the List of Shame - select committees.
Saved, apparantly, as Ed Sec, the OU. Was instrumental in the MSC grants that gave us the Macc Lads.
so not all bad then.
My sister in law works with the long term unemployed in Merthyr and the area is still fucked up a quarter of a century after the strike.
I don't like saying I hate someone but as God is my witness I hate that woman.
The fantabulousness of making the UK economy dependent on the financial services industry and the property market is clear to see, cos those 2 economic sectors built on sand were never going to wobble and crash were they.
I don't like saying I hate someone but as God is my witness I hate that woman.
The fantabulousness of making the UK economy dependent on the financial services industry and the property market is clear to see, cos those 2 economic sectors built on sand were never going to wobble and crash were they.
Johnny Canuck3
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Johnny Canuck3
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If it wasn't for Thatcher, your country would have really gone down the tubes.
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