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EagleWing BS: Forthcoming UK election - important issue (125* d) RE: BS: Forthcoming UK election - important issue 18 Feb 05


"Over eighteen years Maggie Thatcher's government reduced inflation from 21.9% inherited from Wilson/Callaghan to less than 3%, before she went mad and imploded."

Over a much shorter time Maggie Thatcher's government increased unemployment to about 3 million compared with the 1 million she inherited. I don't suppose all those people thrown out of work and then called spungers really noticed the drop in inflation that much.

Quote: "during her first two terms unemployment nearly tripled, the number of poor people increased, and bankruptcies resulted from her efforts to curb inflation."
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