DominicJ wrote:You get used to it, after 11 years of incompetance starts blowing up in the communists faces they start attacking anyone they can.
So its the fault of a government that gained power 38 years ago that theres crime in the UK, not the fault of the current government, elected 11 years ago.
Its not the fault of the government that was elected 11 years ago that the poverty gap has increased over the past 11 years.
I must say, I find it amusing that government ministers are still blaming the previous government for the catalogue of disasters when they've had more than 10 years to do something about it. What we're currently experiencing in economic downturn is what we experience towards the end of every labour government that has ever been. The only difference is that this is the first labour government ever to get a second term in office because they stuck to tory policies for so long. Of course, you'd need to be old enough to remember things like the winter of discontent, the abolition of grammar schools (Shirley Williams even took her daughter out of private school and put her into a comprehensive so that she could get the education job for this) and the introduction of mandatory retirement at 60/65 (all under labour), so at least Jon Pertwee as The Doctor, to get this. You may remember the 3 day week, when Edward Heath (Conservative) refused to give in to the miners. Eventually he went to the country and asked, "who should be in charge?" and the country replied. "Not you mate".
And yet when Margaret Thatcher did the same, the answer was the opposite. Yes we had the poll tax riots, but why should a little old lady living alone and earning £2 a week too much from her teacher's pension to get benefits (my ex's mum to be exact) pay the same for council services as the house next door with 4 working adults in it? Yes we had the miners' strike, but it didn't really affect the country as a whole. I was working for an oil company at the time and banking cheques from the CEGB to the tune of £36 million per month. They just kept their power stations working with a different fuel. The Falklands was more about a point of principle than anything else. And like Golde Meyer before her, she had the war out of the way in a couple of weeks. And of course, it must have been massively unpopular, judging by the overall majority in the 1983 election.
My husband doesn't get it at all, being a toyboy of the Tom Baker generation. He'll be seeing you at the party in Trafalgar Square. I, on the other hand, will be raising a glass to a great stateswoman whom I started to support in 1970 when she was minister of education. There are things that are forgotten about her, like the fact that she saved the Open University from being abolished. But there's one thing we all remember. Who can forget, "Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher". I always hated school milk and when she scrapped it (after labour had already scrapped it for secondary schools but who remembers that?), I vowed to vote conservative to my dying day.
So all hail Margaret Thatcher. I shall praise your name forever.
Lynne
Presumably by your comments it means that the government pays for it rather than the family? But they aren't going to up your taxes just for the occasion are they? (thanks)
