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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 15 Mar 08 - 01:33 PM

Having read some of the statements from the Thatcherites contributing to this thread, I think I will will reconsider my first sentence on my original contribution to this topic.
To borrow a line from the ballad about her fellow Tory, Lord Leitrim:
"May the devil eat her rump and stump way down in Donegal".... or wherever she ends her days.
Jim Carroll


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: alanabit
Date: 15 Mar 08 - 09:46 AM

I do not wish ill luck upon anyone. However, I would not wish to become a friend of someone, who consorted unrepentantly with the criminals Jeffrey Archer, Jonathon Aitken and Augosto Pinochet. That is not the sort of company, which I would wish to keep.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: autolycus
Date: 15 Mar 08 - 09:11 AM

One interesting intellectual confusion raised there.

Yes she was always on about TINA.

So what happened to her other theme, the Conservative one about choice.

With TINA, choice disappears.

neat sleight-of-thought.


    Ivor


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Mar 08 - 08:19 AM

TINA, yup we're still dancing to Hildas Cabinet Band I'm afraid.

eric


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 15 Mar 08 - 06:51 AM

Didn't Mrs T once say "There is no alternative" (TINA)?

TINA to the 'Free Market'!

TINA to a small group of individuals owning most of the world's wealth.

TINA to a world in which a a significant proportion of the world's population is condemned to poverty and starvation.

TINA to a world in which inconceivably huge amounts of money are devoted to the military and ever more destructive weapons.

TINA to a world in which the weapons can be sold to anyone with enough money, even though those weapons are then mainly devoted to the slaughter of defenceless women, children and poor people.

TINA to a world in which torture is seen as a regrettable, but ultimately acceptable, method of oppression.   

TINA to never ending 'economic growth' in which the world's resources are assumed to be infinite and can be used up at exponential rates.

TINA to catastrophic climate change and mass extinction.

If there is no alternative to those things, perhaps we should all give up now - THERE HAS TO BE AN ALTERNATIVE!!


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: theleveller
Date: 14 Mar 08 - 08:40 AM

Norman Tebbitt's dad would like the suggestion that she be buried with her arse sticking out of the ground - it would give him somewhere to park his bike.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 14 Mar 08 - 04:37 AM

These threads certainly bring the rats out of the wainscotting - very revealing to see workers and their elected representatives being depicted as 'concerte slab throwers'. A handy guide to see where people are coming from though.
Why did Thatcher throw her weight behind keeping Pinochet out of jail? Won't hold my breath for an answer.
Jim Carroll


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Mar 08 - 04:18 AM

PS. The bitch condemned millions to poverty and oppression, and thousands to suffering and death. Just one payback cannot amount to sufficient retribution.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Mar 08 - 04:17 AM

Speaking, for the moment, as a lawyer, I would point out that lawyers don't make the law. They merely seek to apply it for the benefit of their clients. Laws are mostly made by our masters in parliament, and indeed since 1972 by our masters in Brussells, and to a pretty limited extent by judges.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Mar 08 - 03:50 AM

Hey Teribus, why don't you tell us how well YOU did out of the Thatcher years ?

eric


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 10:41 PM

A definition I've always thought too often to be quite accurate: Power = the extent to which you can inconvenience and discommode others---.

Srt


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 04:48 PM

Absolutely no offence taken Ivor, no worries. :0)


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: autolycus
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 02:58 PM

QUOTE All Maggies fault, a woman who left office nearly 20 years ago - How fuckin' convenient, thank Christ the crowd that's in at the moment don't have anything to do with it, after all they've only been in power with a massive working majority for 11 years. UNQUOTE

Well I rmember when Thatch was in, she blamed the previous Labour Govt. for as long as possible, and when that was lossing power, after 15 years or so, she started blaming it all on the 60', "20 years before".i QUOTE We are one country, one people. UNQUOTE

rEMINDS ME OF AN OLD pRIVATE eYE CARTOON OF 2 CITY GENTS TALKING. one's saying, "I look forward to the time we are one country - never did much like the other one."


[No offence meant, nothing personal,Appaloosa]


I still think we should be having a discussion at a deeper level. You know, where the action really is.


   Ivor


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 02:00 PM

I'd say that lawyers have done a great deal to harm our society too. Not just here, but in the USA as well. People are frightened to touch one another, talk to one another as they once did, we can no longer even pick a child up, without fear of being accused of something terrible.

When everyone is treated as a potential paedeophile, or rapist, etc.etc.etc..then society ceases to function in a normal way.

I get so fed up with hearing how ONE woman is responsible for where we are now in society.

Political correctness, lawyers, greed, corporate industry, the crazed corporate education system, New Labour and it's Orwellian Values....ALL are to blame, as is the majority of the British population, who have become so deeply apathetic.

It is 18 years since she was in charge. EIGHTEEN years. And in all that time the hatred that flourishes in the far left and the far right, has divided this country. It is time to get rid of that hatred once and for all, and move on, together.

We are one country, one people.

And by the way, you truly do NOT have to do as Mrs.Thatcher told you, or Tony Blair or Gordon Brown. You are still...but only just about...FREE people with minds of your own.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 01:48 PM

PS - yes, I know we can't (unless we leave the EU) replace VAT with a less regressive tax, but that is not a reason why we shouldn't.

We could work round it with a rebate system against other taxes, though.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 01:46 PM

What I predict is a lot less than the harm that bitch's friends did, and a lot less than she did.

She and they have done the harm, caused the suffering, broken the society. And now you say she does not deserve payback? She you and your ilk made damned sure that those who used legitimate means to oppose you were railroaded. I do no more than condemn the guilty. You've been doing it since the acts of enclosure, since outlawing unions, since outlawing oaths and combinations.

You think there's some sort of injustice in reaping as you sowed?

Incredible hypocrisy.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Folkiedave
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 01:39 PM

The TV companies also reversed the order of what happened at the Battle of Orgreave as was proved in the ocurts much later when those charged with offences were acquitted.

I did warn people a week or two ago that Teribus holds people to account for what they have written.

And for what it is worth - Teribus does not live in this country so his experience is mostly second-hand. Indeed he did say in another thread that he lived in a high-tax, high-spend country. And enjoyed it.

That still true old fruit?

Teribus the difference between the rich and the poor is that the poor are rarely able to avoid taxes, so when the rich do so. the burden falls on those least able to pay.

Remember the Vestey's?

"In 1980, a Sunday Times investigation revealed that in 1978, the Dewhurst chain paid £10 tax on a profit of more than £2.3m."


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: theleveller
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 01:13 PM

Teribus wrote:
"Out of curiosity I'd like to know what exactly were those, "efforts by workers to better themselves." that the British Police Force opposed - Did chucking 21 kilo slabs of concrete through taxi windows from motorway bridges have anything to do with it Jim? What were those particular workers improving - their aim?"

Having lived in the Selby Coalfields at the time of the miners' strike, there is no doubt that the force used by the police was both disproportionate and unprovoked. Here is a description of the conflict at Gascoigne Wood, which, having lived just a couple of miles away, I believe to be largely correct:

"The atmosphere had been jovial, the pickets confident of their personal strength against the equally numbered police, as the pickets non-violently but relentlessly pushed forward they were singing. A sergeant after trying to hold back the swell but finally inched off the road conceded good naturedly "I think that's one to you !". Next the police drew back a few paces, a moment passed, then they drew truncheons and charged, swinging and smashing into the packed ranks of pickets. At this moment the pickets fell back into a ploughed field, and having nothing else to hand volleyed the police with lumps of clay and earth. The sky for a few minutes was black with flying mud. Both channels cut and reversed the film to show the clods of earth being thrown and THEN the baton charge, at the same time the pundits announcing:- "Police were forced to draw batons to protect themselves against stone throwing pickets!"

And before you say I'm biased in this, let me tell you that my eldest son is a police officer and that I blame Scargill for the demise of the British coal industry as much as I do Thatcher. The clash of egos is still echoing around this part of Yorkshire. I pass Gascoigne Wood colliery twice a day on the train and it breaks my heart to watch as it is dismantled bit by bit and carted away.

And as for Thatcher's legacy a bit further south in Sheffield....

I dodn't wish the evil old woman any harm but let's hope that we never see that kind of politics ever again; her 'everyone for themselves' approach is, as Richard Bridge said, responsible for the breakdown of social values that we are experiencing today.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 12:09 PM

Correction:

"The epithet I applied does denote people who disagree with me"

Should of course read

"The epithet I applied does NOT denote people who disagree with me"


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 12:07 PM

What's wrong Eric, couldn't you find where I'd said, ""Greed is good fuck the less well off"? Both you and I know full well that you won't be able to don't we.

You have shown how honest you are - you even lie to yourself. The epithet I applied does denote people who disagree with me, it does however go for people who threaten me with violence and those who support them.

Oh those "OAPs shivering and dying of cold in their homes for fear of turning up the central heating". Labour have had eleven years to put that right haven't they?

Have a good Easter, I'm off on a trip, hopefully we'll take in some of the Gosport & Fareham Festival.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:49 AM

Oh and by the way, you ought to know that here on the Mudcat people have a very short attention span, and generaly don't read posts that stretch more than one screen.

eric


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:47 AM

Well then ? are all your pro Thatcher pro tory rambling just in the public interest then ? why are you so determined to educate all us non believers ? why do you appear to have an axe to grind in defence of Thatcher, you also appear to have great volumes of tory manifesto/records to quote from, why is anyone who doesn't agree with you a sorry motherfucker ?

Answer this question, why are OAPs shivering and dying of cold in their homes for fear of turning up the central heating [ if they have any ] because Thatchers policy of selling the family jewels to the highest bidder [ ie. privatisation ] while the power companies make vast profits and if you can't pay you can go to the wall ? oh and I agree, aided and abetted by this sorry excuse for a Labour government, for a rich country this is a poor legacy of her race for riches at all cost.

Come on and admit how well you did out of the Thatcher years.

eric


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:24 AM

Just for the record Eric the red, I am not the one threatening anybody with Molotov Cocktails or with being lined up against a wall - True?

Now then a little test of personal honesty. You point out to me exactly where I have ever stated, "Greed is good fuck the less well off". If you cannot, then I expect a retraction and an apology from you. If you cannot and that retraction and apology are not forthcoming then I will stand by what I stated to Richard Bridge in my previous post:

"What a pathetic, sorry bunch of motherfuckers you are."


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:11 AM

There is no point anymore in replying to the Tory Binge Poster, his mind is made up, stop trying to confuse him with the facts, he knows, greed is good fuck the less well off, scrounging labour bastards.

eric


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 10:12 AM

"All the direct result of the changes Thatcher deliberately brought about."

Utter nonsense, how what somebody did between twenty and thirty years ago be the direct cause of what a fifteen year old is doing now I find rather hard to believe.

"1950s? Strong trade unions, high self- esteem, strong social self- discipline."

Ah, so it had nothing to do with the fact that the vast majority of adults in the 1950's had experienced the largest armed conflict in the history of the planet, or failing that had all done their National Service. That's where your discipline came from. No shortage of opportunities either, massive amounts of work had to be done to repair the war damage during the 1950's. Attendance at school and respect for teachers in the 1950's compared to 2000's. Church attendance during the 1950's compared to 2000's. Ratio of working women 1950's to 2000's is what? Number of single parent families 1950's compared to 2000's is what?

Oh right, as a "socialist" the Government has to give us jobs, the Government has to look after our children - Bollocks. Its the socialist free-ride addiction, "Somebody else's fault, somebody else must pay". You know all your rights but none of your responsibilities, failure to balance that up is what is destroying the UK, nothing whatsoever to do with Margaret Thatcher, but she did highlight that 20 years ago.

Now come on tell us about Blair's, "Education, Education, Education", and his "Tough on Crime". Hey PMB have you still got your little card from the 1997 General Election? You know the one with those ten Labour promises. Score (fulfilled v unfulfilled) was 0 - 10 at the last election, well I mean for fucks sake they've only had 11 years - obviously slow starters, better give 'em a bit of time, eh?. They want to watch because I think they'll come a cropper at the next General Election particularly after yesterday's Budget.

"As far as local taxation is concerned, it should be based on the principle of movement from those who can afford to those who need."

The incentive here Richard, is to do what exactly? Result we all become "those who need", its cheaper, what then?

"Therefore a simple diversion of income tax and other revenue and gains taxes would be appropriate."

That would provide incentive for those with money to move, which would result in you taking in less money than you are taking in now. You still have the same bills to pay so you then must tax the poor.

"VAT should also be removed and replaced by revenue taxes."

Not quite that simple though is it Richard. VAT exists because we are in the EU, that is the money that we shovel across to Brussels so that those unelected EU-Commissioner wasters (Kinnock & Mendelson) can squander it in a totally unaccountable fashion. So think again.

"Anyone living here should pay revenue and gains taxes, and those who live here part of the time should pay our taxes on UK income and a proportion (time apportioned) of their worldwide income subject to treaty double-tax relief."

Again the above would only provide incentive for those with money to move, which would result in you taking in less money than you are taking in now. You still have the same bills to pay so you then must tax the poor.

"If we don't get society back...yak, yak,yak" Did somebody steal it Richard? How do you steal society? This by the way is the full version of that "sound byte" which all you ranting socialist prats refuse to quote for some reason:

"I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation." - (Prime minister Margaret Thatcher, talking to Women's Own magazine, October 31 1987)

I particularly liked this one from you Richard, it says volumes about you and the political cause that you espouse:

"It would be really, really nice if that woman, crippled with arthritis and in pain with the abscesses that her hospital reforms condemned so many others to, watching out of her asylum window, could see the flames start to rise, and know that it was all the testament to her genesis.

I know some who should be in there with her.

It won't be immigration that gives us rivers of blood. It will be exploitation.

And people like you should go up against the wall."

What you are required to do is take responsibility for your own life and work. The typical militant socialist response - petulant threats of violence. What a pathetic, sorry bunch of motherfuckers you are.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 09:10 AM

Oh wannabee dictator - re-read what you said. She stole from the poor to give to the rich. Even in your own words it is clear. If you don't remember the conservatives actually canvassing in a tank you were not watching.

The problems we now have all stem from the fact that our "Labour" government has not got the balls to undo all of what that gouging bitch did.

As far as local taxation is concerned, it should be based on the principle of movement from those who can afford to those who need. Therefore a simple diversion of income tax and other revenue and gains taxes would be appropriate. VAT should also be removed and replaced by revenue taxes. Anyone living here should pay revenue and gains taxes, and those who live here part of the time should pay our taxes on UK income and a proportion (time apportioned) of their worldwide income subject to treaty double-tax relief.

The prime reason IMHO for current crime levels is that that woman destroyed any idea of social cohesion and replaced it with Gordon Gecko grabbing. We see those who gamble currencies, destroy businesses, using borrowed money and produce nothing of use live like lords and claim to be above the law - "tax me and I'll go away". No wonder there is a substratum who feel that nothing legitimate they do can save them. Eventually the worm turns.

If we don't get society back (remember the "there is no such thing as society" soundbite) then sooner or later, dear dictator, you will get the Molotov cocktails you so richly deserve.   It would be really, really nice if that woman, crippled with arthritis and in pain with the abscesses that her hospital reforms condemned so many others to, watching out of her asylum window, could see the flames start to rise, and know that it was all the testament to her genesis.

I know some who should be in there with her.

It won't be immigration that gives us rivers of blood. It will be exploitation.

And people like you should go up against the wall.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 08:51 AM

- A Home Secretary who admittedly is afraid to walk on the pavements near her home at night.
- A senior Police Officer who moved house rather confront a group of teenagers who used to hang around sitting on the wall of his house.
- Drunken fifteen year olds kicking people to death in the street


All the direct result of the changes Thatcher deliberately brought about. 1950s? Strong trade unions, high self- esteem, strong social self- discipline. 2000's? Impotent unions, no worker protection, fragmented society, self- valuation in terms of admen's images, selfishness, violence and ignorant daily Mail rants.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 08:43 AM

"posterity will see her as a necessary evil; a caustic corrective to an ailing system who then went on too long and who ended up damaging the very system she thought she was saving."

Possibly, however those at the time of her election victory in 1979 were heartily sick of what had gone on for the15 years before. There were three courses of action open to her and her Government:
•        Capitulated to the Trades Unions a-la Ted Heath which would have been very populist and which would have bankrupted the country within the life of her first Parliament.
•        Do a serious bit of "Fence Sitting" to see which way the wind was going to blow then follow along. The end result would have been the same disaster as detailed above only it would have taken just that little bit longer.
•        Realize that things cannot go on simply as they have been, that the British economy is bust and needs to be fixed radically.

Now the first two was basically Wilson, Callaghan and Heaths way in which no "leadership" is exercised at all. Oddly enough the alternatives advocated in 1983 by the likes of Foot and Benn were so reactionary that the country could only reject them.

As for "going on too long", I would tend to disagree, she was replaced by a ditherer aided and abetted by a bunch of buffoons who were completely lacking in ideas or conviction, and it was they "who ended up damaging the very system" she saved. NuLabour has of course frittered it all away, and that is becoming more and more apparent every day.

"Her legacy lives on today in the presidential system perfected by Blair, and in the use of 'spin' and attack so adroitly mastered by Bernard Ingham and in the erosion of real democracy while paying lip-service to the voice of the people."

The "presidential system" was dreamt up by Blair, Mendelson and Campbell. It had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Margaret Thatcher or the Conservative party. What Maggie and Sir Bernard were experts of was the controlled "leak" and attack, not "spin" and attack. The "spin" part again came in with Mendelson and Campbell. Margaret Thatcher restored democracy she most certainly did not erode it to the extent that Tony Blair and Gordon of Cartoon have done.

Oh yes, "the voice of the people", very good. If you made up a list of what should be done according to "the voice of the people", I think that you would be rather shocked. The job of those elected is to either govern, or provide an effective opposition to that government. Being in the best position to ascertain all the known facts, they are best equipped to debate the pros and cons. As for "the voice of the people" – the people couldn't even tell you collectively what the country should have for breakfast, they are therefore the least qualified to actually address any problem facing the nation, being unaware of the detailed nature of the problem and totally unbriefed with regard to alternative options available and their respective consequences.

Guest PMB:
"Efforts by workers to better themselves Teribus? They were called Trade Unions. They brought people together, gave them a community identity beyond their own selfishness and race group, educated people about history and politics, showed them how their interests differed from those of the rich..... no wonder she wanted to destroy them, and sad that she succeeded. The result was New Labour."

Trades Unions, as they existed in the UK in between 1945 and 1985 – selfless, enlightened, humanitarians they most certainly were not. Their motto was "We want what's right for us and fuck-the-country".

Educated people about history and politics, did they? Brain-washed them more like. I can remember reading in Jimmy Knapp's obituary of how he often missed school, but never missed a Sunday at the militant socialist Sunday School where he was taught about the delights of living under the idyll that was communist Russia in the 1930's. I ask you how bizarre is that?

The only thing they educated people about were the politics of envy, that excellence was something to be despised and pulled down. They were the ones who preached division, and still do to this day. What was it I said previously about the UK under NuLabour, they have taught us to "revel in self-abasement and mediocrity" – that is what your Trades Unions and New Labour have given you.

By the bye the choice was either New Labour, or No Labour. Politicians, being politicians opted for their only chance to get into power and ditched every principle and promise in order to get there – fuck all to do with Margaret Thatcher, but Blair and Brown knew that her policies were on the right tack.

What you have now is
- A Home Secretary who admittedly is afraid to walk on the pavements near her home at night.
- A senior Police Officer who moved house rather confront a group of teenagers who used to hang around sitting on the wall of his house.
- Drunken fifteen year olds kicking people to death in the street

Now you tell me what happened to all those New labour Election promises from 1997 PMB? Remember "Education, Education, Education", or alternatively do you remember "Tough on Crime". All Maggies fault, a woman who left office nearly 20 years ago - How fuckin' convenient, thank Christ the crowd that's in at the moment don't have anything to do with it, after all they've only been in power with a massive working majority for 11 years.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 07:10 AM

Efforts by workers to better themselves Teribus? They were called Trade Unions. They brought people together, gave them a community identity beyond their own selfishness and race group, educated people about history and politics, showed them how their interests differed from those of the rich..... no wonder she wanted to destroy them, and sad that she succeeded. The result was New Labour.

I'll say this for her though- she wouldn't have given in to the fuel tax pickets if she'd decided on that policy- she wasn't a coward like Blair. She was a bastard and a wrecker, but she had courage. So, of course, did the SS, suicide bombers, and kamikaze pilots.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Gervase
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 05:18 AM

I'm with Zhou en Lai on this - it's too early to tell. My own feeling is that posterity will see her as a necessary evil; a caustic corrective to an ailing system who then went on too long and who ended up damaging the very system she thought she was saving. Her legacy lives on today in the presidential system perfected by Blair, and in the use of 'spin' and attack so adroitly mastered by Bernard Ingham and in the erosion of real democracy while paying lip-service to the voice of the people.
In a hundred years, when the last miner and steelworker have gone to their graves and those who won and lost are merely anonymous names we may well have a very different view, however.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 05:01 AM

"Margaret Thatcher was a classical fascist who walked with fascists and used fascist methods to support the privileged.
She used the British Police Force as a private army to oppose any efforts by workers to better themselves." - Jim Carroll

Complete and utter crap, the above is the typical emotive whining of a bitter militant socialist who has seen his dream of left-wing anarchy disappear in the wake.

Out of curiosity I'd like to know what exactly were those, "efforts by workers to better themselves." that the British Police Force opposed - Did chucking 21 kilo slabs of concrete through taxi windows from motorway bridges have anything to do with it Jim? What were those particular workers improving - their aim?


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 13 Mar 08 - 04:01 AM

As Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher was a classical fascist who walked with fascists and used fascist methods to support the privileged.
She used the British Police Force as a private army to oppose any efforts by workers to better themselves. In the words of one of her predecessors she 'pawned the family silver' for the benefit of the wealthy, and in doing so, tore Britain in half.
I agree entirely with people who say that those who came after her are little better than she was, including the present occupants of Downing Street, but without her efforts they would not have got away with it.
Jim Carroll


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: autolycus
Date: 12 Mar 08 - 06:59 PM

Thanks for that.

it's a start.

If we have an argument about politics, I can't quite see what's so terrible about getting down to real basics. SAfter all, our views on anything (especially the political) is surely derived from the fundameentals I was asking about.

I'm asking about the basis of people's views, in my view not really the same as requesting anyone to Z"justify themselves"

I'm not asking about your 'self', but the basis of your arguments.


best wishes

Ivor


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 12 Mar 08 - 06:41 PM

Ivor:

"Teribus,skarpi, et al, why would you say you are on the right ?"

Can't speak for anybody else, but your question is based one very basic misconception. Just because I am not on the left, it does not necessarliy follow that I must therefore be on the right.

Apart from which it is none of your damn business, there is no way whatsoever that I have to justify myself to you or anybody else on this forum.

Wait over?


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: autolycus
Date: 12 Mar 08 - 05:43 PM

Still nothing from Teribus, skarpi and co. Hm


   Ivor


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: mandotim
Date: 12 Mar 08 - 04:03 AM

Teribus;
Point 1...
No, I just can't be arsed. One-eyed, selective-quoting-the-statistics right wingers should always have the last word. When they have no-one to fight with, they shut up and go away, and the rest of us can get on with living a balanced, fair and just life.
I've had enough of the bile on both sides, I'm out of here.
Tim


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: autolycus
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 04:54 PM

All the time in the world

Ivor


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: autolycus
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 04:39 PM

It's ok, I'm a patient pwerson, i can wait for a while, quite a qhile before the silence starts to get me suspicious.

Ivor


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 04:20 PM

Oh Giok I can see that one just sailing through, especially when everybody works out what it is going to cost to implement, administer and collect.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 02:44 PM

Scotland today.


G


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 02:36 PM

"It assumes that the people who owed it paid it." - Folkiedaves stated flaw with regard to Poll Tax.

Bigger and better than that Folkiedave what you have stated there is part of the UK's problem - ALL TAX systems are based upon the presumption that people who owe it pay it. Problem is that far, far too many in the UK want a free ride, like those who should pay for services provided by Councils yet who don't. That is why your services are crap and underfunded. That is why they are being degraded to the point of national embarassment (Any idea how filthy the UK is now Folkiedave - you are living in a dumpster). Those who are not prepared to pay have no right to complain, or demand that others should pay more.

I do not believe that you can avoid Council Tax either, but it is based on the actual value of your home established by arbitrary assessment. Houses that were expensive at the start of the scheme appreciate in value at a lesser rate than cheaper houses, because of supply and demand, so stand-by for the next assessment.

Local Taxes are simple you know how much you need to provide the services and they are the same for all, costs should be the same for all. The differential in taxes where your earnings are taken into account is in what you pay in income tax, this also includes tax at top rate on what your savings earn you. The differential in taxes where what you own is taken into account is what your family has to pay in inheritance tax.

All indirect taxation is a matter of choice, you chose what you want to spend your money on.

OK how many bites get taken out of the cherry before folks with money decide to move? Who pays the tax then? The rich folks have moved so how do you make up the shortfall? You tax the poor - As an SNP member Giok you can ask Shur Shaun, your SNP pal, it'll only cost you a phone call to the Bahamas.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 01:58 PM

Any tax that is not related to income is bound to be unbalanced, and likely to be unfair as well.

G


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Folkiedave
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 01:56 PM

There is a small flaw in your poll tax maths Teribus. It assumes that the people who owed it paid it.

The fact is that they didn't - it was an easy tax to avoid. Tax on buildings gets paid - the people may move but the buildings don't.

The problem is that it needs to have more bands so that those with the huge houses in the posh suburbs pay more.

Remarkably the old rateable system was complained about loud and long by the rich - it was one of the few taxes they couldn't avoid.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: autolycus
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 01:50 PM

I'm still looking forward to an answer from one of the esteemed posters to mine 10.3 @ 4.40 p.m.


   Ivor


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 01:20 PM

I must say that I find this aparticularly mean spirited thread. Full of venom and ignorance. Too bad isn't it ?


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 01:04 PM

POLL TAX - COUNCIL TAX COMPARISON
A town/district council requires £75,000,000 to fund the services it is by law required to provide.

The population of the town/district is 75,000 of whom 40,000 appear on the electoral role

According to the most up to date information there are 25,000 households in the town/district.

Therefore:
•        Number enjoying the benefit of the services provided by the council = 75,000
•        Number who would contribute to the required amount under Poll Tax = 40,000
•        Number who would contribute to required amount under Council Tax = 25,000

Council Tax Bill = £75,000,000 / 25,000 = £3000 with only one third of the population paying for the services enjoyed by 75,000 people.

Poll Tax Bill = £75,000,000 / 40,000 = £1875 with all those of voting age, 53% of the population paying for the services enjoyed by 75,000 people.

So under the Council Tax Scheme there are 15,000 people, voting, wage-earners or pensioners living in that district who take full benefit of the services provided by the Council who vote and have a say in what gets done, who do not contribute a penny. That seem fair to you Stigweard.

"This means someone earning £60k a year pays the same as someone earning £15k a year"

That is an irrelevance are costs of anything else determined upon what people earn - a £15 taxi ride is the same irrespective on what you earn.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 12:40 PM

"Mad Lizzie the Cornish Binge Poster" ???

Sorry to disappoint you but mind you with a handle like that I almost wish I was.

Falklands - Troops sent to "re-vitalise her flagging political carreer" - Naw Eric, that was the spin put on it by Labour when they lost the 1983 General Election, Gerald Kaufman, however, had it pegged more accurately. He commented that Michael Foot's 1983 Labour Party Manifesto was "The longest suicide note in history". What was it that the "dynamic" Labour Left were offering the people of Britain again:

- Unilateral nuclear disarmament;
- Higher personal taxation;
- A return to a more interventionist industrial policy - Nationalisation;
- Labour to abolish the House of Lords
- UK to leave the EEC.

(By the bye Eric the red, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were among the Labour MPs newly-elected in 1983 who supported of this crap)

No bloody wonder that Foot's Labour Party lost to the Conservatives in a landslide.

Having been proved right, no self-respecting, left-wing Labour prat could ever actually own up to the fact that they'd got it wrong, or face the rather embarassing fact that the country had rejected them - yet again - so there had to be another reason. And that Eric old boy was where you got that particular line of crap about Maggie starting the Falklands War purely in order to get re-elected from. Plain truth was the country didn't trust Labour and the likes of Foot and Benn. They say that a week is a long time in politics, the General Election in 1983 was held almost one year to the day that British Forces in the Falklands were victorious, so your Labour spin doctors most certainly cannot deny that the Lady believed in forward planning - the whole premise is ridiculous of course.

The Falklands were retaken to protect and preserve the rights of the inhabitants of the Islands who have consistantly expressed their desire to remain under the protection of the British Crown.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Stu
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 12:35 PM

"Poll Tax was replaced by Council Tax so anyone who is not a householder does not have to pay for the services provided by the Council they benefit from – a situation that you appear to find as being fair and equitable – I don't, if you benefit from something you should pay your whack."

Of course, the problem with the Poll Tax is that the 'whack' is the same regardless of what proportion of income it represents to those on whom it is levied. This means someone earning £60k a year pays the same as someone earning £15k a year - and this is what people object to. No one in their right mind would agree this is fair - everyone should contribute no doubt, but taxing everyone in this manner is as ignorant as it is unethical - even by Thatcher's standards.


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 11:47 AM

Incidently Teribus, are you Mad Lizzie the Cornish Binge Poster in disguise ?


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Subject: RE: BS: The last days of Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 11:44 AM

The Falkland Islands !!!

Thatchers war, she sent British Soldiers to their deaths to re-vitalise her flagging political carreer.

eric


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