Inselaffen

no, she got rid of the work shy labour force that was crippling the UK.
Secondary/Flying Pickets, demarkation of jobs and other such working practices enforced by the Unions which were making the UK the poor man of Europe.

The Dean

You're out of your mind - I'm with Insel on this.

And how her own MPs - whose jobs she had created - caved in to the Brussels plot to unseat her will be a matter for their eternal shame.

Heseltine, Howe, Hurd, Major............. scumsuckers, the lot of them.

And traitors of course.

Sandboy

she did, and the Luftwaffe were the architects of Coventry cathedral

Charismatic

Your a propper champaign socialist then?

MacScot

Is BangleMan a famous person ?

Sandboy

tax dodging champagne socialist please !

* more likely to be a can of Speckled Hen but it's not quite so symbolic is it ?

Charismatic

I've always thought John Major was judged harshly by the British public. He had some fantastic ideas like TESSA which was never fully developed, a commitment to improving infrastructure, scrapping the EMS, reducing public spending etc.

What economic factors are slowing economic development in the UK now? Lack of personal savings, poor infrastructure and massive public sector spending? In the end scrapping the EMS was visionary as well because despite his personal beliefs being very pro-EEC/EU he realised it wasn't in the UK's interest to be tied to european currencies, how many politicians recently in the UK have we heard go against their personal beliefs because they do not best serve Britain? The UK still isn't tied to the Euro because the descision was so clearly right for the UK, to allow themselves self-regulation of their own currency.

In the end recession, sleaze and infighting caught up with the party. Teflon Tony ushered in a new type of politics where MPs didn't fall on their swords or get the boot as it was too publicly degrading, for better or worse.

Charismatic

I'm still with those mentioned above. The economy in the UK had to change, as painful as the transition was it was needed.

The Dean

But Major RETAINED his beliefs - and had the nerve to call those who sought to challenge those beliefs 'bastards'........... Lamont was the harshly-judged one. He inherited an ERM membership he didn't agree with (Major was the Chancellor who took us in, remember?), and history will judge him as one of the least effective Chancellors.

Quite unfair.

BangleMan

As Billy Connolly once said....."Having the desire to be a Politician, should automatically ban you for life from ever becoming one !"

Spugsy

oh please Maggie T...there'll be street parties all over the north east.

Spugsy

she ****ed the country good and proper, made the rich richer and the poor poorer, I will crack the champagne open teh day the bitch dies.

Spugsy

who was that then? the miners? the teachers? the unions? she screwed them all good and proper, got teams of ex sas out to beat the living crap out of the striking miners, she was a whorebag of the highest order.

Sandboy

probably a north south divide I'd imagine, I was made redundant and had a spell on the dole in 1983, so was my father, I was assaulted by a policeman in 1985 for having the wrong accent in Nottinghamshire, she looked after her own and didn't give a flying ***** about anyone north of Watford.

The people of the North of England, Scotland and Wales held a competition to design a gravestone for Maggie and this won

Inselaffen

The Trade Unions fcked the country up. Its thanks to them that the Shipbuilding and car Industries in the UK no longer exist.