Nick Clegg praises Margaret Thatcher

[duckweed]

Apparently Nick Clegg thinks that Margaret Thatcher was right in her bringing down the Miners Union. I wondered what your opinion was of this statement and him for saying that?

[[Matt]]

He's right.

[taxman]

He's wrong.

[hockers666]

Apparently Nick Clegg thinks that Margaret Thatcher was right in her bringing down the Miners Union. I wondered what your opinion was of this statement and him for saying that?

 

and destroying our steel industry and keeping working class people unemployed and on the breadline hope she dies a slow painful death same goes for blair:rant:

[ab6262]

and destroying our steel industry and keeping working class people unemployed and on the breadline hope she dies a slow painful death same goes for blair:rant:

 

steel industry, mining etc etc all strangled by unrealistic union demands thats why we dont have those industries any more!!

good for nick clegg even though i dont agree with most of what he says he has proved he has some common sense:o

[hockers666]

steel industry, mining etc etc all strangled by unrealistic union demands thats why we dont have those industries any more!!

good for nick clegg even though i dont agree with most of what he says he has proved he has some common sense:o

 

selling off state run buisiness to private companys was the cause of the demise same as electric and gas wich are now in foreign hands and we are paying heavily for it now , did you know half of our power stations have been closed forcing us to buy power from abroad?

[HeadingNorth]

steel industry, mining etc etc all strangled by unrealistic union demands

 

 

It wasn't just unrealistic union demands; the nationalised industries had been run with staggeringly huge incompetence for thirty years or more, and had bankrupted the country in the process. That's why it was such a long, hard, painful effort to sort them out, and why three-to-four million people were thrown on the dole queue in the process. If anyone prior to Thatcher had had enough guts to fix it twenty years earlier, the medicine would not have hurt nearly so much; if Thatcher hadn't had the guts, it would have bankrupted the country again and we'd still have had to do it anyway, and it would probably have put six, seven, eight... million people on the dole queue instead.

 

It's like a man tripping over and trying not to fall down. The longer he manages to stagger along before he actually hits the ground, the worse it's going to hurt when he does.

[NorthenGit]

I bet Nick Cleggs praise went down well Up north, I dare them to spend some time up here. Anyway Thatcher is a raving loony now so she got what she deserved.

[melthebell]

this is what i think

[taxman]

It wasn't just unrealistic union demands; the nationalised industries had been run with staggeringly huge incompetence for thirty years or more, and had bankrupted the country in the process. That's why it was such a long, hard, painful effort to sort them out, and why three-to-four million people were thrown on the dole queue in the process. If anyone prior to Thatcher had had enough guts to fix it twenty years earlier, the medicine would not have hurt nearly so much; if Thatcher hadn't had the guts, it would have bankrupted the country again and we'd still have had to do it anyway, and it would probably have put six, seven, eight... million people on the dole queue instead.

 

It's like a man tripping over and trying not to fall down. The longer he manages to stagger along before he actually hits the ground, the worse it's going to hurt when he does.

 

So she was fixing an economic malaise. She wasn't creating mass unemployment in order to bring down the power of the unions because she was hell bent on a class war?

 

Deliberately creating unemployment isn't just an economic theory. It destroys lives, families and communities, leads to a benefit culture and has resulted in the underclass we have today. Unemployed and unemployable.