Why on earth would the Tory Lite TM party that the warmongering traitor Blair created want to repair Thatchers damage?? It served to keep him in power
Must admit, I did not agree with everything she did, but she was a good PM, at least she had some balls!
IMO, the poll tax was a good idea.
The "Iron Lady" has finally gone rusty. :twisted:
Loving the revisionism in here.
Thatcher 'won' the elections but never with an overwhelming majority. Her (The Tories) figures were 43.9% (1979), 42.4% (1983) and 42.2% (1987). Each time, the turnout was about 70% of the population. So technically, only about 3 in 10 of the people voted for her.
The reason why Blair paid such a tribute is because he has admitted previously that she was his 'political hero'. She was one of the first people he invited to Number 10 when he became PM, much to the disgust of Labour party activists, particularly in the North.
I dont care much for what anyone else says of the Lady, I have nothing but admiration for Lady Thatcher, told like it is, rarely took prisoners and wasn't afraid to pitch against others regardless of who they were.
What a woman, awesome!
I would never celebrate someones death.....but coming from a mining family, living in a mining town, being part, of what once was, a mining community, with a mining tradition....I am damned sure I shall be shedding NO tears.
I think that the time to have 'celebrated' Mrs T's misfortune was in November 1990 when she resigned.
We've had 13 or so years of Labour since then, so plenty of time to reverse anything they didn't like about what she did.
It's not nice to celebrate a death and it says more about the person doing the celebrating than Mrs Thatcher.
I don't think i wished her dead but i can see why many people would.
The Poll Tax made my and my familys life impossible. I was the mother of 2 young children. My (then) husband worked hard, i worked part time when he was home so he could look after the children, i wasn't able to work when he was working because child care was way to expensive. We didnt have holidays or days out that cost anything, we lived a very difficult life finacialy.
I had to pay the same poll tax as someone who was working full time and my husband also had to pay it. When that was paid out of our small wages there wasn't actually enough money left over to pay the rent, pay the bills and buy food. We got no help from the state. If it wasn't for my parents heliong us by buying us food etc then there would have been many times when only the children would have food !
Hence i hate MT.
So although i don't think i wished her dead i am not shedding any tears, i shed them in the days when i was cold and hungry and waiting for mum to pop round with food for us !
What were we suposed to pay it with though ?
Our combined wages didnt cover the poll tax plus rent on our tiny house and food and bills ?
If i worked more hours then i would have had to pay for childcare and that would have cost more than i earned (as a nurse) !
Nowadays i live in a household with 3 adults who all pay towards the council tax and the amount each of us pay out of our wages is less than the percentage the poll tax was from our wages then (not explained that well but im sure you know what i mean).
Community Charge (poll tax) was a very fair system. The problem lay with the council rates that had not been increased year on year, so when the community charge came in at the figure everyone should have been paying it was a bit of a shock.
aah yes, resigned to history!
yep, god forbid you should get something for nothing in this country!
Some folks need to realise that some things are a privilege and not a right to have!