Current Affairs The worst post-war Prime Minister

[Number_25]

And your point? In the fact it lifted our family out of borderline poverty and has since created numerous jobs for people in our local town, and the great tax receipts we have put back into the country.

> Uncle committed suicide over the abuse section 28 gave credence to
> Brought up in the aftermath of Thatchers battles with the miners, and the social decay that it causes
> As I sit in a damp ridden flat that costs me 70% of my pay packet to rent

Yeah mate, fine and dandy.

 

[Yoda]

> Uncle committed suicide over the abuse section 28 gave credence to
> Brought up in the aftermath of Thatchers battles with the miners, and the social decay that it causes
> As I sit in a damp ridden flat that costs me 70% of my pay packet to rent

Yeah mate, fine and dandy.

If someone has gone through that, it’s bad, is that a member in here?
Miners battle very divisive issue, I’d actually side with the miners on this but swear words like Scargill didn’t help this(but that’s another talking point)
I’m getting slated by the other posters over trump trying to get America’s industries fired up again, look them up the same who pick thatcher apart are the ones saying USA has to move on and let this steel making, car making etc die a death, yet they blame thatcher for killing a coal mining industry? Which thing is that they want? Can’t have it both ways

 

[Moomin]

Unions stagnated growth and outside investment in this country, we bought our council house and my grandparents bought their council houses and we benefited greatly from them, enabling us to move up the housing ladder and our grandparents leaving a tangible legacy for their family. This enabled my father to start off what would become a successful business. He did have to get off his arse to earn this though, but would he of got this opportunity without thatcher implementing such policies.

Thatcher stole our milk, thankfully she is gone now.

Hip hip hooray.

 

[Yoda]

Thatcher stole our milk, thankfully she is gone now.

Hip hip hooray.

I had milk when I was in the (they call it reception now) proper glass bottles, foil on the top with a little blue straw. But yes I agree that was not her finest hour. My own mother despised her

 

[Yoda]

Thatcher stole our milk, thankfully she is gone now.

Hip hip hooray.

What do you think of the comments I made on this matter that you replied too?

 

[Agent Blue]

Unions stagnated growth and outside investment in this country, we bought our council house and my grandparents bought their council houses and we benefited greatly from them, enabling us to move up the housing ladder and our grandparents leaving a tangible legacy for their family. This enabled my father to start off what would become a successful business. He did have to get off his arse to earn this though, but would he of got this opportunity without thatcher implementing such policies.

But we have the ludicrous situation of the less than well off still living in those same properties, but paying higher rents to private landlords and quite often it is the taxpayer picking up the tab in the form of housing benefit. All this set against a backdrop of the rape of the public purse by the banks to the tune of 850 billion, the very institutions who provided the deceptively cheap finance for the acquisition of those council properties.

 

[dandydan]

Still just me for Atlee?

 

[degsy]

Still just me for Atlee?

Yeah mate...just you.
All the reforms that first post war Govt. pushed through, if they were that bad how come nobody reversed them.
But like all governments they had their monumental stuff ups, so they all cancel each other out on the minus side of the ledger.
Attlee / Nye Beven did a lot of good...imagine a minister of housing getting castigated for ONLY building 300,000 houses in a year...every year.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Thatcher stole our milk, thankfully she is gone now.

Hip hip hooray.

Could never really understand why Thatcher taking milk is the devil, whereas parents who breed such that they can't even provide milk for their offspring are working class heroes.

 

[orchard]

Could never really understand why Thatcher taking milk is the devil, whereas parents who breed such that they can't even provide milk for their offspring are working class heroes.

Kinell lad, you should of put this in the Naz thread before you locked it

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Kinell lad, you should of put this in the Naz thread before you locked it

Seriously though, parenting is probably the biggest responsibility out there, and milk is pretty low down on the list of things you should be able to provide. In the same vein, some £2bn in unpaid child maintenance that was still outstanding is about to be written off by the government, with another £2bn still outstanding. That's payments to some 1 million single parents. Lets blame Maggie though rather than those toe rags.

 

[orchard]

Seriously though, parenting is probably the biggest responsibility out there, and milk is pretty low down on the list of things you should be able to provide. In the same vein, some £2bn in unpaid child maintenance that was still outstanding is about to be written off by the government, with another £2bn still outstanding. That's payments to some 1 million single parents. Lets blame Maggie though rather than those toe rags.

Are you having a 'Tx' moment?

You've just brought in loads of elements here mate, and yes you're right, parents need to be responsible for their children. Some are very negligent, some have a really hard time in the gig economy, how many/what proportion, who knows?

Irrespective, I'd personally rather chip in for universal/means tested milk for innocent children to up their nutritional intake, than say, universal bus passes for oap's, or universal TV licence for oap's, or no NI for oap earnings.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Are you having a 'Tx' moment?

You've just brought in loads of elements here mate, and yes you're right, parents need to be responsible for their children. Some are very negligent, some have a really hard time in the gig economy, how many/what proportion, who knows?

Irrespective, I'd personally rather chip in for universal/means tested milk for innocent children to up their nutritional intake, than say, universal bus passes for oap's, or universal TV licence for oap's, or no NI for oap earnings.

Or a state pension funded by people who probably won't have one when they reach the same age?

 

[orchard]

Or a state pension funded by people who probably won't have one when they reach the same age?

Quite possibly, but I think Means-tested nutrition in children is deffo more important than universal pensioner TV's.

 

[HongKongToffee]

Thatcher was evil but at least in her time as leader she had the country on a strong economic footing.

I voted Gordon Brown,his handling of the banking crisis was shocking.

I would put Cameron probably on par with Brown for his evil austerity measures and calling for the stupid Brexit vote.

Actually can i have 3 votes.