Some facts to remember about the Thatcher years
SHE was known as "the milk snatcher" for stopping free school milk for the over-elevens.
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister. But her monetarist policies were privatisation, public spending cuts on a massive scale, creating unemployment in the heavy industries and public sector to lower inflation so profits could be made on the backs of workers losing their jobs, which is what happened through 18 years of right-wing Tory rule in Britain.
She created mass unemployment after her election poster said Labour Isn't Working, when there were 1,500,000 out of work. Well, neither were the 3,139,000 unemployed six years later.
In 1979, 14% of people lived below the 60% median income; on her departure it had risen to 22.2%. She also got rid of minimum wages and union power, so workers would have no say in how they were being treated, and making people grateful for work and therefore more unlikely to strike.
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She wanted to go back to the Victorian age and its so-called values, putting British people in fear of losing their jobs by making us insecure, rubbishing Labour and setting employed against unemployed, police against miners.
It's the same today – divide and rule, pitting striver against shirker.
But as she became increasingly unpopular, her cabinet, fearing an election defeat, forced her out. The damage, however, was already done.
These are facts we should never forget.
Ken Moreton
The Green
Draycott
Comments
by rbob123
Wednesday, January 02 2013, 4:35PM
“The more rubbish Ken Moreton writes the more conviced I am that he has no idea of the definition of the word 'fact'. His spelling of the word seems to be d e l u s i o n. Has he forgotten what a ****-tip this country was in 1979 before Maggie came to power? Derby-born's short description is just the start of it, and he doesn't mention that we had to have the IMF bail us out for the only time in our history. UNDER LABOUR.
I'll tell you one thing we did have under Margaret Thatcher, and that's social mobility, whereby someone who had nothing could become successful by trying hard and working hard. Social mobility reduced under Tony Blair and stopped completely under Gordon Brown. What hope now for those who start with nothing? Only the certainty of joining what Blair termed 'The Underclass'. Well done, Tony; you and Gordon should be proud of establishing that.
What has Labour ever done for the working class?”
by Derby_born
Wednesday, January 02 2013, 10:04AM
“Yes Ken, Labour was doing such a brilliant job in 1979, we had strikes, three day weeks, power cuts, uncollected rubbish, a collapsing economy, job losses..............
Margaret Thatcher was such a bad Prime Minister that she won THREE General elections and became the longest serving Prime Minister since William Pitt.
John Major succeeded Thatcher in 1990, winning the 1992 election with the highest number of votes for an MP in British political history: http://tinyurl.com/8hzkquq leaving us with the longest period of economic growth and what has become known as the "Golden Legacy".
Tony Blair had meetings with Margaret Thatcher to get advice on how to run the country:
Blair and Brown spent that legacy, we had one of the biggest boom and bust periods and after Brown sold our gold reserves at a loss, we were not prepared for an International downturn that left the country with no money, as the outgoing Labour Treasury Secretary was only too keen to tell the incoming Treasury Secretary.
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by capnpete
Wednesday, January 02 2013, 9:35AM
“She also gave us back our pride in being British! It was she, and she alone, who had the determination and yes, the balls, to go to war and retake the Falkland Islands.
Remind us Ken, where you in Port Stanley in 1982?”