Tories = Bad?

[Nli.]

I can't be bothered to read through all of this, but didn't Margret Thatcher / Conservatives start all that trouble with the Miners Strike in the 70's?
So from where I'm standing so far the Tories are getting the blame for everything (near enough) in this thread?

[FlyingJesus]

Yes you're quite right, money was never an issue for anyone before the 70s

[-:Undertaker:-]

I can't be bothered to read through all of this, but didn't Margret Thatcher / Conservatives start all that trouble with the Miners Strike in the 70's?
So from where I'm standing so far the Tories are getting the blame for everything (near enough) in this thread?

Margaret Thatcher was only elected halfway through 1979, you are confusing her premiership with that of Labours James Callaghan, possibly the worst Prime Minister we ever had.

There were protests during Thatcher which she ultimatley won against those who waged the protests, who were just union leaders such as Arthur Scargill and Derek Hatton who had alligences to partys such as the Communist Party of Great Britain and various other Socialist partys.

The two of them were complete and utter loons who wanted some sort of socialist/communist revolution to take place here, meaning right now if they had had their way we'd be flying not the British flag, but a communist flag. That would also mean right now you would be living in poverty, we would be allies with countries such as North Korea and Cuba rather than NATO and our monarchy would be long gone.

Tom is right, money wasn't an issue during the 1970's because there was none.

[leah]

Tories > Labour

[Nli.]

Margaret Thatcher was only elected halfway through 1979, you are confusing her premiership with that of Labours James Callaghan, possibly the worst Prime Minister we ever had.

There were protests during Thatcher which she ultimatley won against those who waged the protests, who were just union leaders such as Arthur Scargill and Derek Hatton who had alligences to partys such as the Communist Party of Great Britain and various other Socialist partys.

The two of them were complete and utter loons who wanted some sort of socialist/communist revolution to take place here, meaning right now if they had had their way we'd be flying not the British flag, but a communist flag. That would also mean right now you would be living in poverty, we would be allies with countries such as North Korea and Cuba rather than NATO and our monarchy would be long gone.

Tom is right, money wasn't an issue during the 1970's because there was none.

I guess so, but there was also another Strike in the 1980's. But I'm not too sure what started/finished that. So I won't be saying anything.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I guess so, but there was also another Strike in the 1980's. But I'm not too sure what started/finished that. So I won't be saying anything.

That was the strike, a lot of the workers never wanted to strike and supported Margaret Thatcher, hence why she won three terms in office and in the end it wasn't the public who finished her, it was her own party who remain to this day, divided over the EU who brought her down.

If we would of carried on as we did under James Callaghan and Labour then there is no doubt in my mind that we would be a very poor nation right now, and most likely would have the hammer/sickle/star on our flag. Margaret Thatcher saved this country and defeated the unions which were in control of the government - the public don't elect unions, we elect a government and expect the government to govern, not the unions.

When I mean the flag flying, I mean over Parliament & Buckingham Palace, and i'm pretty sure i'd rather have the British flag flying over Parliament & Buckingham Palace rather than the socialist flag.