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Topic History of: I'm really looking forward to the Thatcher movie
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Prunella Minge |
veritas wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
Funnily enough, both Baz and Wiggy were together at Michael Summerton's funeral; I chatted at length to both of them.
sad about Michael..he was such a funny guy. never met Baz..Wiggy is a lovely chap. 
I must be one of about ten of those who bought Wiggy's The Beatles Tapes. He always was a very nice little chap. |
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robbiex |
Don't forget there were 3.5 million unemployed under maggie, is that an economic policy you with to continue. |
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Innocent Accused |
JK2006 wrote:
I too thought "thank God Brown has stopped Boom and Bust"... then the long, huge boom turned into a massive, monumental bust. The previous mini booms and busts looked better and the saving of the economy looked like going deeper and deeper into debt.
The worldwide recession would have happened regardless of who was our Chancellor,it was on a far too great a scale for any country except the USA to alter its outcome.
Brown rode the wave well for 10 years,yes mistakes were made,but overall a much better stewardship than the inconsistency of previous administrations.
I dislike Brown because of his policies regarding false allegations and the treatment of us falsely accused,nothing to do with his economic stewardship. |
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veritas |
david wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
And whilst, as I said, I disagreed with most of her policies, I tended to support her financial route and suspect that her government put the UK in a pretty strong position, since damaged by Gordon Brown who, at the time, I thought was a good Chancellor but who now looks dreadful in hindsight.
I'm actually quite surprised at your comments here, JK.
For me, the real damage Thatcher did, was financial. What was it about her 'financial route' that you approved of?
Surely, she was right at the root of the 'live now, pay later' culture, and the 'loadsa money' culture in the 80s which led to the glorification of short term gains and massive risk-taking in the city. and where has that got us? Ah yes....
that's probably a good take on it. Her worship of that old fraud Freidman. Possibly she didn't even know herself what the outcome would be.
I hated most of her policies but I hate Blair & Nu Labour worse. far more destructive. |
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veritas |
JK2006 wrote:
Funnily enough, both Baz and Wiggy were together at Michael Summerton's funeral; I chatted at length to both of them.
sad about Michael..he was such a funny guy. never met Baz..Wiggy is a lovely chap. |
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