I'm with Donald on this one. Thatchers' main legacy was to make the UK a much
more selfish society. Her avowed aim was to destroy our manufacturing base and
to turn us into a service and banking economy to the benefit of her banking
cronies.
She destroyed mining communities amongst others, with the end result that we
now import subsidised coal instead
She was totally toxic and delusional, and I feel Donald has been much too kind
to her. I think Elvis Costello got this one right!
Regards
John Duggan,
Wales, UK
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From: Donald <d1956m198d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, 8 April 2013, 22:55
Subject: Re: [OM] Hibernating for a bit...
On 08/04/2013 22:35, Ken Norton wrote:
>
> Not judging, only asking: Is it possibly that the "community" in
> question would have died eventually anyway?
>
>
Forgive me, Ken, but a fairly typical American perspective. You fall at
the first hurdle by placing parentheses around the word community. Many
of the communities destroyed by the Bitch were older than your Republic,
and had multiple, viable industries.
She shifted the money from bottom to top. She deregulated so that her
banker buddies could scoop up the bones and flesh and get fat on them.
She gave succour to dictators and mass murderers all over the globe.
She took the infrastructure of 150 years of public investment and sold
it at pennies on the pound. In the course of all this she blighted
millions of lives. Funded by opening the doors of the City of London to
every spiv from Leningrad to Bogota.
And she funded her destruction of collective bargaining with the
birthright of the people, their mineral wealth.
She made this one of the most divided and unequal societies in the
world. That is some legacy.
I hear they're cremating her. I want proof. I hate the cow that much.
D.
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