required field
- 03 Feb 2016 10:00
Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....
Stan
- 24 Jan 2019 14:29
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"required field - 24 Jan 2019 14:10 - 11892 of 11894
Don't be insulting Freddy.....she put the country on the right path …..."
RF the deluded fool.
Haystack
- 24 Jan 2019 14:47
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Stan
Maybe you are not old enough to remember the state that Labour and the union had got the UK into pre Thatcher. We were known as the sick man of Europe.
iturama
- 24 Jan 2019 15:00
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Now it's the French and all they have got is mighty Micron.
Stan
- 24 Jan 2019 15:02
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Nonsense H/S that was just the right wing propaganda that the Tory press and sympathisers were spewing out.
It's a fact the 70s was the the most prosperous in just about every indicator that mattered to the average worker.
2517GEORGE
- 24 Jan 2019 15:05
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When you say prosperous do you mean like British Leyland Stan?
Stan
- 24 Jan 2019 15:16
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Nonsense H/S that was just the right wing propaganda that the Tory press and sympathisers were spewing out.
It's a fact the 70s was the the most prosperous in just about every indicator that mattered to the average worker.
Read again slowly and that will explain.
KidA
- 24 Jan 2019 15:19
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TUC General Secretary, Frances O'Grady, has announced that its affiliates will no longer use strike action as a negotiation tool; all out brothers/sisters/whatever is being taken off the table.
Dil
- 24 Jan 2019 15:20
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Don't you mean preposterous Stan ?
Ah the winter of discontent ... those were the days.
iturama
- 24 Jan 2019 15:25
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Stan is waiting for a uniformed response.
Stan
- 24 Jan 2019 15:25
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George and Dill both Express, Mail and Murdoch sponges no doubt.
2517GEORGE
- 24 Jan 2019 15:40
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Very good iturama, don't take any of those Stan and as far as I'm aware Dill is a herb.
Stan
- 24 Jan 2019 15:47
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No intelligent response as usual.
2517GEORGE
- 24 Jan 2019 15:49
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You can't help that, it was the schooling you received.
Dil
- 24 Jan 2019 16:07
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Stan , you didn't have to read about it in the press it was on tele too and in some places you could actually look out of the window and see the mounds of bin bags piling up on the street.
Callaghans legacy , what a guy.
2517GEORGE
- 24 Jan 2019 16:10
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British Leyland workers went on strike when management wanted to take 5 minutes off their courtesy tea-break.
Stan
- 24 Jan 2019 16:27
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Ha ha so out of the 10 years of that decade you site only two things to bleat on about...please try harder.
The fact remains that sticks in your gullets is that the 70,s was the most prosperous for the average working person.
Fred1new
- 24 Jan 2019 16:30
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Maggie had an idea and ran with it.
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Destroying unnecessarily a large amount of heavy industry and social communities.
The "revolution" could have been carried out more respectfully with regards to social cohesion.
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In the view of many, she was also responsible for the Belgrano murder over a bunch of rocks and sheep which I think "cost" $1.19 Billion at the time, over 250 British members of the British Military Force and the ongoing maintenance costs of military defence guessed at ? £1million per week.
Seems like "tory delusional vanity", which is still prevalent and obvious to many in its present leadership.
Dil
- 24 Jan 2019 16:50
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No one noticed when British Leyland went on strike George.
Weren't they the ones where the night shift built hammocks and went to sleep all night ?
2517GEORGE
- 24 Jan 2019 16:58
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An alternative as to who really was to blame Fred.
British Leyland (Later called MG-Rover) was a conglomeration of some of the best known names in British car manufacturing, such as M.G.(Morris Garages) and Rover with Austin and Riley and Austin Healy and lets not forget Triumph and Jaguar and many more.
With such a pedigree of manufacturers under one roof how could this force of manufacturing houses fail? Well quite easily actually.
British Leyland suffered from start to finish with Union problems. Their strikes in the 1970s were staggering and world famous.
In a recent documentary one key union official was reported to have said “We used to call a strike over virtually nothing in the 1970s”
2517GEORGE
- 24 Jan 2019 17:05
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I thought the Falklands were inhabited Fred.