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From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 20:07 T Wake wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > Phineas T Puddleduck wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > Have you ever read anything modern ? > >> > > >> > Thatcher was quite mad btw. > >> > >> "Quite" - barking towards the end. There is no love for Thatcher in > >> Wales, for example. Less then for Beeching, in faact. > > > > Her idea of running the economy using 'corner shop' economics was a total > > disaster. > > Don't let /BAH hear you say that.... She is convinced Thatcher was the great > saviour of UK economics. /BAH wouldn't for one second think that Thatcher's > meddling caused all manner of long term problems. I'm sure you're quite right about that. Blinkered thinking can be very popular. I guess it's attractive because it avoids having to deal with the difficult issues. Graham
From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 20:08 T Wake wrote: > "Phineas T Puddleduck" <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > > Although one could argue that the coal mining industry in Wales was > >> > > reaching the end of the line in the 70's and 80's, due to cheap EU > >> > > imports of coal - what was more galling was the fact that there were > >> > > no > >> > > contingency plans set up by government. Her government simply shut up > >> > > shop in Wales without any investment in replacement/alternatives. > >> > > >> > Good Lord! You mean the cradle to grave gravy train ended? > >> > >> Mining was hardly a gravy train. > >> > >> Graham > > > > Of course it was, those miners went down in fur-lined elevators to > > recline in comfy settee's and watch daytime TV. > > > > Ignoring the fact that Welsh coal and steel built most of the British > > Empire, of course. > > > > > > > > (quick rule of thumb - Unsettled is an idiot) > > A massive understatement. Unsettled registers 5.8 Porats on the idiocy > scale. Borats surely ? Graham
From: Phineas T Puddleduck on 25 Nov 2006 20:11 In article <4568E8C1.1ACD11DA(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > Don't let /BAH hear you say that.... She is convinced Thatcher was the great > > saviour of UK economics. /BAH wouldn't for one second think that Thatcher's > > meddling caused all manner of long term problems. > > I'm sure you're quite right about that. > > Blinkered thinking can be very popular. I guess it's attractive because it > avoids having to deal with the difficult issues. > > Graham Thatcher was lucky in that she was perceived as being tough with the unions after the 70's, plus she was fighting a weakened Labour party that was rife with internal splits and incohesive. If a John Smith had come in 1980 then even with the Falklands conflict the 83 General election would have been a lot different... Not perhaps enough to change the government, but enough for opposition to sense blood in the water. -- Just \int_0^\infty du it! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: Phineas T Puddleduck on 25 Nov 2006 20:11 In article <4568E8FE.3F04F589(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > A massive understatement. Unsettled registers 5.8 Porats on the idiocy > > scale. > > Borats surely ? > > Graham Read some of Porat's posts on sci.physics and sci.physics.relativity - he's almost as good as Borat. -- Just \int_0^\infty du it! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 20:12
unsettled wrote: > T Wake wrote: > > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > >>Phineas T Puddleduck wrote: > >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>>Have you ever read anything modern ? > >>>> > >>>>Thatcher was quite mad btw. > >>> > >>>"Quite" - barking towards the end. There is no love for Thatcher in > >>>Wales, for example. Less then for Beeching, in faact. > >> > >>Her idea of running the economy using 'corner shop' economics was a total > >>disaster. > > > > > > Don't let /BAH hear you say that.... She is convinced Thatcher was the great > > saviour of UK economics. /BAH wouldn't for one second think that Thatcher's > > meddling caused all manner of long term problems. > > LOL it wasn't as though you had none when she became > Prime Minister. Eh ? Thatcher presided over the start of the destruction of British manufacturing industry for one. Britain now has to buy its planes, ships and even trains from abroad just to name a few examples. Nor do we have much in the way of high tech electronics. EMI, GEC, Marconi, EE, Ferranti, Racal, Mullard, ICL, Plessey have all either vanished or are mere shadows of their former selves. We even only make cars in any numbers for foreign companies now. Graham |