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[b]The Cat wrote:[/b]
[quote]I agreed with about 80% of Mrs Thatcher's policies, including the Community Charge (Poll Tax). She revitalised Britain after the devastation caused by previous governments and brought us back from the brink of disaster. Blair wasn't really a Thatcherite. His policies followed more after Major and Howard. Thatcher gave more freedom to the individual and inspired people from the working class to aim high and achieve. The mines would have closed anyway because of changing markets and the fact that most were running out of the resource. As it was, more mines closed due to the strike than would have been closed under government plans. It was a dying industry given the final shot to the head by it's own workers. British industry overall was on the downslide. It was important for people to be able to set up new businesses which could grow in the new market. I recall the Enterprise Allowance Scheme which allowed people to set up a business and run it while still claiming benefit (as a kind of government funding) for a year before they had to make it on their own. Thatcher's carrot was much better than Blair and Brown's stick.

The 1860s joke backfires because Britain was one of the wealthiest, most successful and powerful nations on earth during that century.

I recall Mrs Thatcher saying, after she'd won the 1979 election, that "If we all work together" everything should work out fine. People often quote the second part of the sentence but conveniently ignore the first part. She was opposed strongly by various dinosaurs from day one and so no wonder not everything worked out fine. No PM has ultimate power, but she did a good job against the odds. The Tory party and the whole of the UK is still recovering from the consequences of Hestletine's challenge and Mrs Thatcher's resignation. I still think that if she hadn't resigned she would have won the second round and we might not have had Blair as PM or be in the mess we are today.

Actually, Mrs Thatcher did not pave the way for Blair's misrule. He had to abuse certain privileges and reform various laws in order to be able to pursue his policies. He also banished the hereditary peers from the House Of Lords under the excuse that they were never elected, knowing that their first loyalty, for generations, has always been to the nation rather than any political party, and that they would have prevented him from abusing democracy. Mrs Thatcher understood and respected their importance and how they, despite being unelected, protected democracy and prevented dictatorship. Blair understood this too but he did not respect it. They were an obstacle to his power and so he had them removed.

Mrs Thatcher was one of the best PMs this country has ever had. Blair is undoubtedly the worst and most self serving.[/quote]

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Topic History of: Brilliant Andrew Marr on Thatcher
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Author	Message
veritas	hello Ms Minge
JK2006	Yes there is a thread about it somewhere - superb.
Prunella Minge	Anyone watching Michael Cockerell's Great offices of State series on BBC4? Very interesting, with some good insights into Thatch, too.
veritas	JK2006 wrote: I blame Adam and Eve myself - actually, no, I blame God for creating them in the first place. thanks very much. I always get the blame.
JK2006	I blame Adam and Eve myself - actually, no, I blame God for creating them in the first place.