MrSmith Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 You are looking at it from a 2011 perspective, when she abolished free school milk working class people were a lot poorer, and as far as I can recall didn't have satelite TV, mobile phones and contracts. twenty park drive and a pint of beer were for many the only pleasures in a then quite grim world. My father was a miner with four kids, we didn’t do without mink, I was always getting told off for opening all the bottles so I could put the creamy bit on my cornflakes. We didn't need free milk at school because we had it at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Didn't Labour's Ted Short start all the "milk snatching" in 1968 -ish? I also think he started closing the mines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandad.Malky Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 It’s national and provides a service to the nation and in my opinion the supply of food is about as important as you can get. So I ask again what services are you talking about and why do you think the government can run them better that the private sector? You are being silly ……. go on admit it, you know where I am coming from. Gas, electric and water are all basic requirements that should be under government control ………. there are those that would add others like a national rail network, although I have never heard of a supermarket being referred to as a national service ………. well not until you tried to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glennis Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 A said the same very early on in the thread, sadly there are those that still don’t seem to have grasped it though. She was / is a nasty peice of work. I cannot think of anything good to say about her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 I also think he started closing the mines. Ah!, I see. The Miners Strike was nothing to do with Thatcher then? It was all orchestrated by a Labour Government years earlier. It all makes sense now. not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Ah!, I see. The Miners Strike was nothing to do with Thatcher then? It was all orchestrated by a Labour Government years earlier. It all makes sense now. not. Forget the mines for a moment ..what do you think about the fact that Labour stopped school milk before Thatcher did..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Didn't Labour's Ted Short start all the "milk snatching" in 1968 -ish? That was John Redwood said in an interview, but he offered no evidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 That was John Redwood said in an interview, but he offered no evidence. This from the Beeb "Harold Wilson's Labour government stopped free milk for secondary school pupils in 1968. " http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_4486000/4486571.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Forget the mines for a moment ..what do you think about the fact that Labour stopped school milk before Thatcher did..? I dont know if they did, I seem to remember we stopped getting it when I was about 14, so that would tally with the Wilson Government. I think the Juniors and Infants still got the milk though Dont forget, by the mid sixties times had changed a lot. Other benefits had been brought in to help families, and we were a lot more affluent than back in the 40's and 50's. Food was of a far better quality, and was easily available. Rickets was unheard of, but its evidence in the older people was all around It was to combat horrible ailments like that, that the free milk was intoduced in the first place. God forbid we should ever return to those times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 You are being silly ……. go on admit it, you know where I am coming from. Gas, electric and water are all basic requirements that should be under government control ………. there are those that would add others like a national rail network, although I have never heard of a supermarket being referred to as a national service ………. well not until you tried to. They are less important than food, so why should they be nationalised and not the supply of food. Why do you think these services should be natioalised? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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