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Thread #157132   Message #3706939
Posted By: Teribus
06-May-15 - 02:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pro / Anti Thatcher Squabble Thread...
Subject: RE: BS: Pro / Anti Thatcher Squabble Thread...
"I have quoted The Mail regularly - whenever it makes a statement not in favour of the right"

So from that I take it that when you quote and refer to something from that particular news source it has to be taken as "gospel" and is thoroughly credible as long as it feeds your bigotry? Grow up Christmas.

"You have totally ignored every fact put up which shows Thatcher, the Tories and the system for the predators they are"

And you have totally ignored and dismissed every fact put up which disproves your dearly held myths.

"unemployment, homelessness, poverty"

All of those things existed pre-Thatcher and they did not get worse, in fact despite the depredations of Blair and Brown (The Pension Raids) in general people are better off today than they were 30 years ago and a damned sight better off than they were 60 years ago.

"the gap increasing gap between rich and poor"

From the link I provided Christmas - on this very subject:

"TAX AND INEQUALITY
- The rich are paying their fair share of tax. The best-paid 1 per cent contribute 27 per cent of all income tax revenue. (According to information supplied by HMRC in response to a request under the FOI Act)

- Despite Ed Miliband's disingenuous claims about 'tax cuts for millionaires', the top 0.1 per cent of earners are paying 12 per cent of all income tax — a record high. (According to information supplied by HMRC in response to a request under the FOI Act)

- The rise in the personal allowance to £10,600 a year has taken 3.7 million people out of paying income tax altogether.

- Income inequality in the UK, as measured by the Office for National Statistics, is lower than it was in 2010/11 when the Coalition came into office.


"Thatcher's fascism??" - democratically elected as a Member of Parliament. Elected by her Party as Leader, her Party was elected into office by the electorate of the United Kingdom on three occasions. When her position as leader was challenged and she lost the vote within her political party she stood down - now care to tell me of any Dictator Fascist or other wise whose political career followed a similar path?

Your childish scatter-gun approach to flinging insulting terms about is ill-informed and pathetic.