Were they ?

It was still a public monopoly deserving of privatisation though, prime for privatisation, probably the best argument for privatisation was the UK's telephony system in the 1980s, and they still have a monopoly albeit they now trade with a more commercial attitude.

I must have missed your pearls of wisdom as i dont remember you posting much on the sin bin..

The point of the last post is very simple scabs are beneath contempt.

Imo people who use the term "scab" are beneath contempt

Just bumped into Lucifer himself sleeping in a cardboard box , hes refusing to go back until him upstairs takes on the the queen with the iron heart

Most of those on the right who exhort 'live in the real world' do exactly that - they have regular jobs in regular companies or is that the preserve of lefties like you?

Right Jerk Chicken sorry just read bottom of your feeble argument.

BT was sold off for a fraction of worth to money so money made more money .

Us the majority got kicked in the balls because as still is the case today whoever you get your telephone from BT provides the line,

And they may of been monopolies but you know gas, fuel , electric , BR , steel the list goes on yes they may of been monopolies but they were "OUR" monopolies , we all had a stake.

Now we dont have a pot to in, all cameron is doing now is trying to tax my ,

Did you have a point you wanted to make?

Crossing a picket line doesn't make you a scab - hospital porters in Bradford went on strike my mother a ward sister not a member of any union crossed the picket line to ensure health care standards on her ward were maintained - that doesn't make her a scab.

You struggle with comprehension obviously - just because your job is not on the shop floor doesn't mean you don't 'live in the real world' as you suggested - capisci?

There's some really nasty people on this thread. Most of them calling Thatcher evil.

Hypocrites.

All I can really think to do at this time is to go to Downing Street and carefully place at the gates a life-size inflatable model of ALF.

She's no Queen of Hearts

oooh you're a bit angry aren't you ?

BT were a joke before they were privatised, just stop and think about the last time you paid for calls on your landline, if you pay for calls on your landline at all do you pay more for them in the morning than in the afternoon, do you still rent your telephone handset and is it still the colour they gave you rather than the one you really wanted, if some new technology comes along, lets say someone re-invents the fax machine, do you have to ring your current provider and ask them to come and install your new fax machine for you because it has to be hard wired into the connection box which is in your hallway because thats where BT told you it had to go, thats assuming that they have capacity on the line for another telephonic gadget in your house, round where I lived you were lucky not to be sharing a line and number with a neighbour.

No, I didn't think so, that particular monopoly was tired, lazy, bureaucratic and obstinate, and deserved the massive investment and kick up the backside that privatisation gave it.

You and others are confusing BT with British Telecom or even Post Office.

BTW it can still take BT six weeks to install a new line

GPO please...