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Thatcher, the worst Prime Minister Britain ever had.

218 replies

ivanhoe · 10/12/2010 19:16

Thatcher wrecked British manufacturing industry and devastated whole areas of Britain by her obsession with high interest rates.

Under her rule crime rates soared. The Health Service was wrecked. Before she came to power it was the best in the world. After 11 years of her rule it was the worst in the developed world.

Britain's mental hospitals were closed and their inhabitants dumped on to the streets of our cities to be a menace both to themselves and to the general public.

All forms of physical punishment were banned in schools, thus wrecking the education system for ordinary people.

Thatcher crucified the Health Service and was responsible for a number of equally wretchedly mean actions, such as abolishing the Wages Councils and making various cuts in welfare benefits. And breaking the State pensions link with national average wages

Margaret Thatcher also ruined the Social structure of this country by stopping the building of Social housing during her Premiership.

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mycounty · 18/12/2010 11:04

'are not'

mycounty · 18/12/2010 11:03

Ivanhoe. You keep saying people are 'thick' I feel that it is not that people are 'thick' but they lie in their comfort zones and cannot be interested in politics, even though politics and the political elite affect their everyday lives. The benefits culture does have an impact on the economy and people think they can have 'something for nothing'. Taxpayers have to pay for them.

Thatcher, it is true did wreck the manufacturing industry,(we live with the impact of that today) but as previously said, the Labour party has done far worse, and Blair must rate the worst Priminister ever.

The reason this country is in the state it is because too many are infatuated with X Factor and football. If the hordes that attend and support football (thousands) showed us much fervour for politics that they do football, then the country would not be in this mess, for a raft of reasons.

Women sadly are also to blame. Most women I know I not in the least interested in politics, let alone any activism in that area.Sad

Original poster
ivanhoe · 17/12/2010 23:34

//////The reason this country is in a mess is because there is no industry here any more ..not because of the benefit culture ..why can't people see that////

Because people are thick.

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electra · 17/12/2010 22:15

sheesh - I can't stand this hankering some people have for Britain to be regarded as an empire or a view that we are somehow 'better'. It's pathetic.

southeastastra · 17/12/2010 22:12

brunel must be turning in his grave

usualsuspect · 17/12/2010 22:12

The reason this country is in a mess is because there is no industry here any more ..not because of the benefit culture ..why can't people see that

electra · 17/12/2010 22:11

She was a monster.

Beamur · 17/12/2010 22:10

There are still subsidised industries - aviation, farming...(less so increasingly with farming I grant you)

byrel · 17/12/2010 22:06

Why is it sad, low-tech and low-skilled primary industrys can't survive on a large scale in a modern western economys, they are always going to be outcompeted by developing nations.

southeastastra · 17/12/2010 22:02

what a sad state of view to have

byrel · 17/12/2010 22:01

Of course not everything has to be profitable but they have to either provide a vital service to the country if they are going to recieve state subsidies. The ship-building industry didn't and instead was a blackhole which needed the Government to constantly subsidise it. You should squeeze the efficient parts of the economy to subsidise inefficient industrys.

usualsuspect · 17/12/2010 21:58

Lots of people lost there jobs though ...oh wait.... is that history repeating itself I hear

southeastastra · 17/12/2010 21:57

so everything should be profit driven?

byrel · 17/12/2010 21:56

There were no profits that why when a lot of the major industrys were privitaised they went bust, hence why they aren't there anymore.

southeastastra · 17/12/2010 21:55

and probably creaming off profits

byrel · 17/12/2010 21:48

It was only there because the Government was subsidising it

southeastastra · 17/12/2010 21:46

but there was still an industry there, now there isn't

byrel · 17/12/2010 21:45

She wasn't evil, the reason we don't have a major shipbuilding or a mining industry is because they were grossly uncompetitive and required heavy Government subsidisation in order to survive. Subsidising uncompetitive industrys is madness and Thatcher was right to bring it to an end.

complimentary · 17/12/2010 21:45

Newave. Have I missed something? Under Labour and Tony Blair & Co, yes, the following happended 'People died of hypothermia waiting for operations' (and MRSA) 'Child Poverty' is worse now (caused by labour). 'Unemployment soared' under labour! With one in four under 25's unemployed. The labour party orhchestrated mass immigration which culminated in recruiting cheap (for their rich mates in business) labour then undercut the British working classes and took jobs.

The great labour leader Brown then sneered at the terrible 'bigot' Mrs. Duffy for daring to quesion his immigration policy!

I know the labour party were great!Smile.

stillbobbysgirl · 17/12/2010 21:44

"sorted the unions"?!?!? So, now her little prodigy can make sure bosses can lay off whoever they like and stay rich while we suffer?

Apparently the taxpayer will be paying for her funeral when she eventually pegs it - does this mean I can dance on the grave I helped pay for?

southeastastra · 17/12/2010 21:36

she was evil

does england have a mining industry or shipbuilding industry anymore?

complimentary · 17/12/2010 21:32

Margaret Thatcher was not evil what a load of toss, a truly rotten Priminster who was also not 'evil' was Tony Blair! He and the Labour party sold this country 'down the river'. Blair brought us into two wars, and has killed thousands. All because he was a poodle to Bush and his vanity preceded his so called intellect!

The labour party legacy will live on, and the country will take decades to recovery from its mis-management.

Thatcher did do some things wrong, decimating our industries was a terrible thing, but evil? Hardly.

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ivanhoe · 17/12/2010 19:01

/////She was evil but at least she had a brain.//////

Talk about leaving oneself wide open, sheeeeeeze.

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Notevenamouse · 16/12/2010 14:48

She was evil but at least she had a brain.

Notevenamouse · 16/12/2010 14:40

Cameron will be worse wait and see.