Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

if they do, they do, but at least they're true and accurate

By the end of the 1970s there were 12 million union members as opposed to 5 million plus now. The figur is falling fast year by year with more than 100,000 being lost every year. This is part of the reason that we get less industrial strife. The militants still exist in the shape on Bob Crowd and others. There remains a shrinking rump of members of the Socialist Workers Party that looks forward to the revolution. When my son was at 6th form college, his politics teacher said she wished we could go back to the days when she could just call her fellow workers out on strike for whatever reason she chose. She hated all forms of automation as it reduces jobs. She hates PCs and all form of computers, checkout scanners, online retailing etc. She tried hard to indoctrinate the pupils, get them to skip college to attend protest marches. Groups like the SWP are a cancer in our society.

Well cynic the one good thing about Maggie was her thirst for free speech.

gf

"all the ill feeling and the country divided in half"

This is one of the great myths of the left. The country is certainly divided, but it is divided in TWO and NOT in HALF. The recent polls show that people think Thatcher was good for the UK in the ratio of 2 to 1.

Hmmm just looked at my Diary......... haystacks comes off his 6 month squelch suspension tomorrow. Has he got any better or is he still disrespectfull of the old disabled and truly poor??.

Might even take him off now.

Haystacks re-instated.

Worth having a look on the advfn thread.....t1ps.

Im sure Winnie has gone clinicaly mad.

God! Don't tell me that the idiot goldplunger has unfiltered me. I was enjoying his lack of insane replies to my posts.

Haystacks just depends on what poll you are reading.

No way should Thatcher be given same funeral as Royalty.

Still the same old Haystacks ..........as ignorant as -hit.

I remember Brian(biker hells angel type) on advfn introducing me to you about 8 years ago.

At the time I thought you were an ignorant numpty, guess things dont change.

that's not factually correct, but as i have posted a couple of times, it concerns me that this has set a precedent - WSC was an exception and for very different reasons

TORY POLL TAX 2 comes into force today.

Expect rioting further down the line...........probably first bank holiday we have if its nice weather.

Cyners have you got a slow internet connection?.

Whats above post about?

No way should Thatcher be given same funeral as Royalty ...... is not factually correct

You certainly haven't mellowed. It is the same old outdated party line. MTs greatest triumph was crushing the militant unions. It is notable that Labour has not repealed any of Thatcher union laws. Even the current Labour party has no intention of altering union legislation. The truth is that Labour wanted to slap the unions down, but were too weak to do so. Their idiological dogma and their financial ties to the unions prevented them from doing it.

The poll tax (not its real name) was a brilliant tax. It is a great pity that Thatcher did not sell it to the public better in advance.

It is also unfortunate that the police were not better organised at the time of the relatively small poll tax demos. These days with better intelligence and the use of 'kettling' the demos would have been better handled.

Small poll tax demos LOL, what tripe Mr Hayes.

They even had a saturday night riot here in Holmfirth where I live.

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Even the larger ones in Trafalgar Square were not that big. They were not even on the scale of the student fees demos and they were handled pretty easily.

Haystacks seems to forget that where the Unions were prevelant was in the Old industries where numbers yes have fallen.

Suprised theirs so many members left after this tory party has put people out of work through limp policies.

Dont forget this rubbish about 1 million new jobs is just that. Poeople who work 1 hour per week are included as are start up business which thrives on the low interest rates.