Britannist

So you would like to go back to the days before nationalisation - where one had to wait up to 6 months in the 1970's for a new telephone line from the state-owned Post Office?

Britannist

"A conviction politician - true to her beliefs" - the words of Gordon Brown about Lady Thatcher last year (Mr. Brown met Lady Thatcher at 10 Downing Street).

Earlier this week we lost Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody, the eurosceptic Labour MP - another conviction politician.

There are too few conviction politicians in British politics.

BonnieDundee

Most certainly, she perhaps knew how to talk the talk but not walk the walk. She was just like her pal Reagan in that respect.

I find it hilarious the Windors made her a lady. Not that it counts without the King's sanction of course.

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Leopold Kohr.

BonnieDundee

That is what you'd expect from representative "democracy", particularly with the size our parliament represents.

One interesting thing is how much Brown and Blair are Thatcher-lites.

They seem out to screw the average-man and pander to the rich and big business as well.

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How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; build your own cabin and p*ss off front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.
Edward Abbey

Leopold Kohr.

HighlandFP

My Mother still asks how the Blessed Margaret is. It recalls the time I proudly stood on the Miners picket line in Kirkcaldy, Fife.

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Britannist

Sadly missed.

Leftists are still whining about internationally-respected Lady Thatcher and the hugely popular President Ronald Reagan 17 and 20 years after the two left power.

Obviously the stunning election victories of both Lady Thatcher and President Reagan have made many leftists bitter almost two decades after the 'Iron Lady' stood down as Prime Minister and 20 years after President Reagan left the White House.

Britannist

I proudly opposed the Miners' strike.

And it wasn't the Miners' strike as such - it was Scargill's strike.

And he lost it, thank goodness.

A historic day in this country when he had to call a press conference to admit he had lost .

What I cannot understand is how he ever thought he would beat the 'Iron Lady'.

BonnieDundee

So are alot of other people. Including alot of conservatives, American style libertarians and us decentralists(who economically inhabitat a shadowy grey area between left and right.)of course. She talked about free entreprise but that seemed to mean corporatism and helping out her friends at the expense of the average person. Much like alot of the right in that respect.
I'm bitter about what she did to the workingman.

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"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state."
-Bruce Schneier

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; build your own cabin and p*ss off front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.
Edward Abbey

Leopold Kohr.

BonnieDundee

The miner's strike was a good thing, it was the last swansong of the workingman drowned out by the bureaucrats of social democracy and the big business policies of people like Thatcher.

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"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state."
-Bruce Schneier

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; build your own cabin and p*ss off front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.
Edward Abbey

Leopold Kohr.

Britannist

What is costing our country so much is the EU. That is the problem.

We are forced to pay billions a year to the EU for nothing back except a a gigantic trading deficit to the advantage of continental EU nations (a trading deficit which we never had before we joined the EU).

The status quo of EU membership is not acceptable.

If we were out of the EU that money could go on infrastructure (i.e. rail and roads), public services and tax cuts.