Elvira

That's what I was looking for! (Can't give you Karma yet - sorry )

Deadmeat

And I wake to find it was all a dream ...

Oh no, not all of it, the Aussies are 99-5 ... hahahahahaha

snowbunny

If she got her money any way other than through honest work, then she's no better than Queen "let-em-eat-cake". If she did get it through honest work, she's lucky to have been born in a place at a time when such work could be had.

Wintersong

So either way she's nothing but a lucky b*tch then?

tony_2003

LOL I'm raking the karma in for this thread. I had no idea

Lion in Winter

Well you should have. How many unemployed were there the height?

tony_2003

It was around three million in 1982 I think.
The tories like to champion her so called rescue of Britains industries. Its all bollocks though, most of the new businesses that were set up under her sef-employment schemes folded within a year. How is industry being rescued if no bugger has a job?

Lion in Winter

Won't get any argument out of me. The south did very nicely thank you, in certain sectors, on the back of the north which went completely down the tubes. I forget how many of those three million were in the north, but it was a very large majority. There was nothing in many places - no way for people to make a living and no way to sell their houses to move somewhere else because no one would buy in those areas.

gruffbrown

We registered our cat for poll tax, just to be arsey, the council guy called one Sunday morning to ask who 'Wellie' was

Lion in Winter

Well I certainly hope Wellie refused to pay.

gruffbrown

I got the feeling it wasn't the first stupid reply he'd heard

Lion in Winter

Well no but if you work for the government you have to develop a certain tolerance for that sort of thing.

gruffbrown

Especially trying to enforce the Poll tax, he looked really pissed off

Lion in Winter

Sort of like working for the Sheriff of Nottingham.

gruffbrown

Except the Sheriff of Nottingham was probably more pleasant than maggie