Just being 17 I [according to my dad] was lucky not to have been around when Thatcher was PM. Being in West-Centeral Scotland which relied heavily on industry there's hardly anyone I know who would support the tories. So were the tories really as bad as what is made out [UK as a whole]? Or is it just from certain view-points?
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Though Thatcher was an excellent LEADER, she radiated arrogance and severely severely lacked empathy. The Tories were *beep* to Scotland.
shareThatcher was a great leader - it's just that everything she stood for was for the benefit of the rich and screwed the poor and for that many hate her.
The motto of the Tories should be "pull the ladder up Jack...and *beep* the rest"
That bad then...
sharePeople being bad or good is of course entirely based on a point of view. The people of the mining communities hated Thatcher et al because they lost their one means of living. However, ask the British people of the Falkland Islands what they think of her and you'll probably get a radically different answer. Some people believe she trampled over the poor and vulnerable, but she also provided people living in Council houses the opportunity to purchase the homes they had lived in for so long. I guess it's really all down to comparing what your life was like in 1979 and whether or not it was significantly better in 1990. I know mine was.
sharePretty much like Blair, actually - there is very little daylight between the parties (Labour and Conservative) these days.
shareMy relatives over in England told me that Thatcher and her party more or less destroyed their support bases outside London, especially Scotland. Even today, their support is weak.
shareOne thing she did was good ie she broke the huge power of the unions who were tearing the heart out of Britain with their strike actions and destroying the economy. Only Thatcher had the strength to stand up to them knowing this would make her unpoopular with a large part of the electorate but also knowing that in the long term it was the only way to increase the strength of the British economy. So, yes the working classes hated her for taking away their union power base but the middle classes loved her for stabilising the economy and bringing inflation and interest rates under control. Obviously a stable economy benefited the working class as well - who really wants to live in a country where everything costs 15% more than it did last year?
shareEr.. To blame inflation on the unions is retarded. The whole world was going through a period of stagflation (higher inflation and interest rates). Much of this was caused by the Arab oil embargo.
The same old bull$#hitters prattle on about how great Maggie Thatcher was. Under her watch, inflation and interest rates still rose and unemployment went from 1 million to 3 million. WOW!!! Amazing economic skills. All she did was transfer the collective wealth of the working class to the middle class.
The underclass she created in Britain still exists even today.
They are a bunch of public school toffs who *beep* on the working class and are only interested in keeping the rich rich and the poor poor.
I was born in 1985 and my brother in 1984, which was pretty much in the middle of all the strikes, which my father was apart of, and i was told we barely had any money for food. So, obviously, she, and the tories, are despised in my household and throughout much of South Wales where i live.
It saddens me to see the tory party moving ahead in the poles, people certainly have a short memory and the ignorance of many people who do not have any interest in politics, may result in the unthinkable happening with the Tories back in power, God forbid!
mmm im not sure about increasing the strength of the economy i think she ended up ruining that even before blair finished it off- she was called thatcher the milk snatcher as she stopped the milk kids had in school and as for unions some are still going strong as they should be. paul sounds like bit of a fan there dont you ? wonder where you fitted into her england= bet you werent brought up on a northern council estate were you !!!
each mans life touches so many others that when he's gone he leaves an awful hole, doesnt he
Don't listen to Paul-1125. He is obviously a stupid imbred middle-class twat who has no essence of the real world. Especially don't listen to it benefiting inflation- London is the most expensive city in the world! Most of the people I know STILL live in poverty!
Thatcher pretty much destroyed and trampled on the working class, and tried to get rid of the unions- who stand up for people who are being bullied by their bosses and offer support to those who are actually doing something to help the country. Instead she and her cronies helped people like Paul who probably used the hard-earned cash that the workers made to wipe their own arses. As a result, the eighties were absolutely unbearable for the workers- television series like 'Boys from the Black Stuff' show this. Her effects left such a great poverty that the nineties were also terrible. She was the worst Prime Minister we ever had, even more terrible than Blair, and that's saying a lot.
The Tories are only interested in making a quick buck for themselves & their big business mates, the problem we have in this country is that New Labour continued to implement Tory ideas. Many of this countries assets(water, gas,electric & even health)have been sold off to the highest bidder.
The leader of the Tory government (Thatcher)called honest working men & women the enemy within,people with legitimate greivences were effectivly called traitors by the Tories, the party of greed & self worth who sold this countries assets to line their own pockets.
This country no longer has any major political parties that offer any real alternatives for the people, this will only drive people to vote for more extreme parties.
I was only a child during the Thatcher years, I was born in '82 during the Falklands War, I live in County Durham, which was hit badly by Thatcher in the 80's, we now have some of the most poverty stricken areas in the EU...I don't really have a major opinion about Thatcher, I was always told from being a child that if I ever voted Tory my ancestors would haunt me by rising from the dead, so they could have a collevtive heart attack all over again...I'm yet to incur the wrath of a group of dead people upto now, as I vote labour, and if I don't vote, I spoil my ballot
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