What? No Thatcher thread?

[Adam W]

Lol this capitalism is great, at least you are being fair, I will pay your tax as you are treating me so well.

Nah it should be done fairly, the socialist way, and split equally between you 50/50 after I've taken my administration fees and you've paid your dues to the union, who pay my basic salary. Well I shouldn't be out of pocket should I.

 

[specs]

Poppy cock, stuff and nonsense hehe

I think it must be nice in your world

 

[MDJ]

I think it must be nice in your world

Fleck off you Prik :earmuffs:

 

[ruston]

Nah it should be done fairly, the socialist way, and split equally between you 50/50 after I've taken my administration fees and you've paid your dues to the union, who pay my basic salary. Well I shouldn't be out of pocket should I.

No, not having it , I need tuppence an hour more than you .

 

[Silly Sausage]

I think it must be nice in your world

I spent a year in Thornbury once, one of the best years of my life.
So the answer is...YES!

 

[specs]

Fleck off you Prik :earmuffs:

very nice

 

[MDJ]

very nice

My God Specs I would have thought by now you had worked out I was pulling your chain :ciappa: I'm not a bad guy really, cheer up you dwat

 

[specs]

My God Specs I would have thought by now you had worked out I was pulling your chain :ciappa: I'm not a bad guy really, cheer up you dwat

, neither am i, so i forgive you :wink_smile: thats the sort of bloke i am,Its not your fault that what you believe to be true is not. However in order to guide you in the right direction i will pm you an invite to the' Mags Admiration an Devotion' meeting which is held on the 1st April every year, unfortunatly you missed this years meeting, but next years will be a truly moving event.:wink_smile:

 

[Earthstore]

Recently I have been reading up on Scargill and a chap called Red Robbo, which affected some of my friends at BL, so I have heard their side of the story too.

I have read it all with an open mind and am left bemused now, Red Robbo apparently caused 523 walkouts at LongBridge at a cost of £200 million in lost production, now, even if every walkout was justified no business can take this kind of financial hit, remember this was the 1970's when a million quid was a lot of dosh, so it is hardly surprising that BL went the way they did.

The miners thing was different, and it destroyed whole communities, communities that were built around one industry, which parts of it were, at the time, unsustainable, but everybody went on strike, united, lead by a man who even recently lost a court case because he was still using the NUM as his personal bank, which with all these strikes made the whole industry unsustainable.
So the whole thing closed, and Margret Thacher was blamed.

Before I get a barrage of abuse, I just wonder if the whole thing had been handled much better by both sides whether things would have been different.

At the end of the day, if you are reading this and you run your own business, and employ people, would your business survive if your staff were always on strike, or wanted to work just 3 days or wanted a 330% pay rise?

Just trying to sit on the fence here.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Now come on fellas, I think this subject is dead and buried now.

 

[Des 56]

The past cannot be altered,but we can learn from the past
Opinion on both sides of the argument may never alter, the way forward will be affected by the events of times gone by,probably tempering those actions because of what did happen

For good or bad Thatcher has been laid to rest and is confined to history
The present times are enough to concern the population without the marginalising of recent days
Rest in peace Maggie T
Now what do you all say to "lets move on folks"

 

[Spudnik]

Now what do you all say to "lets move on folks"

I say thats a fantastic idea.