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Britain has become a very mean spirited and brittle place - this thread has just confirmed that for me.
Originally posted by HelenConway
reply to post by Rigel Kent
I am not judging you but your attitude and those of the others for reasons I have stated.
Britain has become a very mean spirited and brittle place - this thread has just confirmed that for me.
Originally posted by christina-66
reply to post by Credenceskynyrd
Ach twaddle
Originally posted by Freeborn
reply to post by HelenConway
Britain has become a very mean spirited and brittle place - this thread has just confirmed that for me.
Ironically that's partly down to Thatcher and her various policies.
Originally posted by HelenConway
reply to post by Rigel Kent
I am not judging you but your attitude and those of the others for reasons I have stated.
Britain has become a very mean spirited and brittle place - this thread has just confirmed that for me.
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left," Margaret Thatcher.
Originally posted by Credenceskynyrd
...she wasn't that right wing on issues such as EU, welfare etc
When you understand that it became that way due to Thatcher's policies then you will know why people think the way they do about her. Comte
I am not judging you but your attitude and those of the others for reasons I have stated.
Britain has become a very mean spirited and brittle place - this thread has just confirmed that for me.
Ever wondered why Britian has become mean spirited as you put it?
Originally posted by HelenConway
reply to post by Rigel Kent
I am not judging you but your attitude and those of the others for reasons I have stated.
Britain has become a very mean spirited and brittle place - this thread has just confirmed that for me.
Originally posted by TheComte
Originally posted by Credenceskynyrd
...she wasn't that right wing on issues such as EU, welfare etc
What?! Are you for real? Please explain.
Originally posted by Credenceskynyrd
Originally posted by GrandStrategy
Originally posted by Watchfull
She had the toughest of jobs.
Cure the UK from years of ultra left wing labour socialist abuse.
The country was known as the sick man of Europe, and with good reason.
Maybe some of the ill wishers would prefer to be at the beck and call of the socialist workers party, where unions ruled the workplace, and the cabinet.
You mean like all the nordic countries in europe with their ample unions and socialism that have the highest standards of living in the world right now?
The reality doesn't compare to your propaganda.
no two countries are the same, and the Nordic countries are not socialist- they have a democratic welfare state, but they are not socialist
The Faulklands usually brings shame to us. as does any war. Well, for anyone with any semblance of the consept of right vrs wrong.
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
I don't get it. I saw the movie "Iron Lady" or whatever, and I did see that she did some unpopular things, but she did WIN elections. It sounds to me like she had to make some hard decisions that hurt some in order to save many more.
At least you guys still have the Faulklands, if that means anything to the average Brit
Originally posted by Acidtastic
The Faulklands usually brings shame to us. as does any war. Well, for anyone with any semblance of the consept of right vrs wrong.
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
I don't get it. I saw the movie "Iron Lady" or whatever, and I did see that she did some unpopular things, but she did WIN elections. It sounds to me like she had to make some hard decisions that hurt some in order to save many more.
At least you guys still have the Faulklands, if that means anything to the average Brit
and please don't take your opinions of her from a movie which was 110% vomit enducing propaganda.
The proposals considered by her cabinet included compulsory charges for schooling and a massive scaling back of other public services. "This would of course mean the end of the National Health Service," declared a confidential cabinet memorandum by the Central Policy Review Staff in September 1982, released by the National Archives on Friday under the 30-year rule.
But the earlier version's most controversial privatisation proposal concerned the health service: "It is therefore worth considering aiming over a period to end the state provision of healthcare for the bulk of the population, so that medical facilities would be privately owned and run, and those seeking healthcare would be required to pay for it.