Spot on.

Ask anyone from a mining comunity what they think of HER and I should think you will get a stock answer. She caused more misery in those comunities than any other PM in history. She would have got more support had she sugested that we put children down the mines again. I am not stupin enough to think that the last labour government were anything but useless but the only good thing that tory boy and his a---- licking side kick Clegg have done is sort out the benifit system to make it profitable to go out to work and not sit at home poncing of the rest of us.

Scargill didn't do them many favours either sadly, if he was less intent on irking Thatcher and making himself a name, a lot of people (him not being one of them of course!!) and communities would have suffered less.
But lets stay off the politics and stick to the rugby, history teaches us that the working man will always suffer at the hands of ANY politician.

Great shout! Along with the great username

Anybody can say what they want about Thatcher but I think anybody who lived through the 80's and experienced the collapse of community self belief and respect at the hands of the her government, especially in this area might have a very dim view of her time in power

I am from a mining family, I would rather have her than the shower we have had since, I think the country would be in a stronger position if she where still top dog.

Correct, Scargill and his gang of thugs were self serving idiot who gave Thatcher a relatively easy victory. It cost us all not just miners because despite what most miners thought they were not the only workers getting stuffed. We now have almost powerless Unions which in turn has allowed this massive gulf in earnings between workers and company bosses. It makes me weep to see what trade unions gained for workers after the war thrown away by these little Napoleon's by playing right into Tory hands.

Agree though best stay clear of politics.

Unquestionably true, my point was that Scargill in particular and the unions generally, didn't help their members either.
Sadly the union mentality of a good shouter is better than a good thinker proves itself time and time again, crowds of baying people on both sides are unlikely to work anything out for the good of anyone.
I'm not hugely political, they're all bent as far as i can see, nobody works for the working public anymore, and thats why the country is down the pan.

Javelin

Has anyone seen the latest manufacturing output figures ?

For all the people are critical of her and the damage she did, or the fact that she was there too long.....

....someone kept voting her in.

Jeez I got a bit giddy reading the title.

Looks like my party’s on hold.

Are we forgetting her use of the police force as a state army, the use of military personnel dressed in police uniform to swell ranks, the police state like measures to stop groups of young men travelling freely from city to city, the over aggressive confrontation seeking tactics employed, the manipulation of press and media to create a false picture of the miners strike, the secret deal to hoard coal bought from abroad at huge cost, the tiny kids that died after being buried under slag heaps while they dug for coal to keep warm at home, the suicides that followed the destruction of many family men's lives, the escalated drug culture that filled the pit villages and Towns that were destroyed by Thatcher, the dismantling of the UKs manufacturing industry from which we've never recovered, the poll tax, poll tax riots, the imprisonment of the elderly, single parents and any normally law abiding individual who tried to stand against the poll tax etc etc etc.........

Sorry but I'm not having a Maggie Thatcher love in from anyone, the woman was a political genius, a world leader to be proud of and feared in equal measure but EVIL, discompassionate and ruthless to her core.

For any good she did, she did twice as much bad!