To be clear, Supertanskiii is an insufferable nob but what the feck? How brain dead do you have to be to think this is a good idea? Pure smooth brain.
Agreed, the only party getting any economical benefit from this is Rwanda.Not economic benefit - direct fiscal benefit. Actually having a young motivated person to add to the labour force is generally going to be a massive economic benefit when you have an aging population with a high proportion of people long term sick.
And there was Steve Barclay delaying the covid vaccination programme signoff because he was so concerned about the taxpayer and value for money. I don't think I can properly express my hatred for these feckers.
I hated Thatcher and her crew far more, they were evil class warriors who didn't care how much damage they did so long as they put the working class back in it's place, but I have to admit they were good at it, in a sort of Norman Conquest way.Completely with you on that.
I am in my early 70s and have seen many governments come and go.
But I have to be honest and say that I have never witnessed a government that is so incompetent and inept and totally out of touch as this one. And I have never hated a government as much as this.
Anyone following the Covid inquiry?
I hated Thatcher and her crew far more, they were evil class warriors who didn't care how much damage they did so long as they put the working class back in it's place, but I have to admit they was good at it, in a sort of Norman Conquest way.
This government seems to have no objectives, no philosophy, no morals, no competence, it just seems to be a bunch of people feathering their own nests while they can and trying to climb up their organisation to trouser even more. I'd love it if half of the feckers were prosecuted for corruption and sent down, it's what the country needs.
But I always thought at the time they actually believed in their policies, bad as they were. Margaret Thatcher certainly did.
Unfortunately she was enamoured with Reagan.Yes she did, her spell in government changed everything, have to admit in my life (career wise) it changed everything, simply because you knew everything she said she would do, she did. It was like getting the racing results two days early.
In the early 1980's I attended a conference in Cheshire at an FE College, presented by two of Mrs 'T's Downing Street apparatchik's, they spoke for nearly two hours about what the NTI initiative was all about and what Thatcher intended to do about school leavers, either finding jobs, undertaking planned training or entering full time education, they never mentioned the Further Education establishment once and were listened to in complete silence.... as the penny began to drop!
As I drove home with a colleague (we were at the time both Labour party members), we both agreed Labour didn't stand a chance, and had no one like her, she was the complete epitome of the 'conviction politician' believed everything she said and wouldn't flinch in carrying it out, but which nobody in my age group, at the time, recognised, because we had never seen one before (or since come to think of it!).
I'd argue that some of her policies did work, not necessarily for the benefit of most of us though, the greed is good attitude is still with us and if the 1970's unions were still around you'd be sitting in the dark with zero services because they'd all be out on strike, and you'd not be worrying about your mortgage because you wouldn't have been able to get one that big in the first placeUnfortunately she was enamoured with Reagan.
Listen to the call when Reagan phoned her to retrospectively let her know he had undertaken military action in a UK territory (if I recall) without prior notice and she sounds like a fawning Aunt, not like the Iron Lady.
Alas, her policies, widely viewed as successful at the time, did more damage and achieved very little in this country.
The history of three days weeks is massively over played.I'd argue that some of her policies did work, not necessarily for the benefit of most of us though, the greed is good attitude is still with us and if the 1970's unions were still around you'd be sitting in the dark with zero services because they'd all be out on strike, and you'd not be worrying about your mortgage because you wouldn't have been able to get one that big in the first place
That wasn't her and in what way is it massively overplayed?The history of three days weeks is massively over played.
I'd argue that some of her policies did work, not necessarily for the benefit of most of us though, the greed is good attitude is still with us and if the 1970's unions were still around you'd be sitting in the dark with zero services because they'd all be out on strike, and you'd not be worrying about your mortgage because you wouldn't have been able to get one that big in the first place
I know it wasn't her but Thatcher apologists point to the previous labour government and the winter of discontent to show how she improved the country.That wasn't her and in what way is it massively overplayed?
I was a kid at the time, was great that we didn't have to go to school everyday but cold baths and no TV wasn't fun
Mass unionisation wasn't and isn't an issue, but in the 70's it was mad, striking over tea breaks and the like was just idiocy, and that's what put Thatcher in power, people were fed up with rubbish on the streets and dead bodies piling up in the mortuariesSo… they absolutely did not work. Unless by ‘work’ you mean… reward the rich and fcuked the poor.
And yes, if the 70’s unions were around now they’d all have gone on strike because the soul of the country has been set aflame and they had means to stop exploitation.
I never quite understand the argument that mass unionisation is a bad thing. Happy, well paid, well treated people simply do not strike. There’s no appetite for it. Of course there are aggressive unions and union heads. But a completely unionised workforce would find healthy balances to marginalise those types. If doctors settled at 11% and nurses wanted 21%, they’d have no public support.
Mass unionisation wasn't and isn't an issue, but in the 70's it was mad, striking over tea breaks and the like was just idiocy, and that's what put Thatcher in power, people were fed up with rubbish on the streets and dead bodies piling up in the mortuaries
70's Union leaders and shop stewards were little more than rabble rousers in a lot of cases, it was about power over the establishment (the Government) not about the workers they represented
It was 3 months actually and happened under a Tory PM, but it also sowed the seeds for what happened in the following years which ultimately ended up with the winter of discontent, there's a lot of myths about certain events, Thatcher is blamed for shutting down the mines yet Harold Wilson closed far more coal mines than she did for example - I however did raise a glass and would have danced on her grave if I'd been in the UK at the timeI know it wasn't her but Thatcher apologists point to the previous labour government and the winter of discontent to show how she improved the country.
My point is that this period is described as years when in reality it was a month
You beat me to itYeah, fair. We’re at cross purposes. I saw daylight appear in the cracks of Thatchers coffin and grabbed the nail gun. Crisis averted. Bitch still dead.
That'll be what he signed all those dodgy PPE fast lane deals with then...
This isn't the UK version of The Onion, is it? This actually is real breaking news?
Well, at least he isn't eating the pages yet like our previous leader did.Sadly yes. There's a link to the guardian article in the tweet underneath.
This isn't the UK version of The Onion, is it? This actually is real breaking news?
You don’t think a PM using pens that he could erase isn’t something worth reporting?
Especially one espousing transparency, integrity and accountability?
Video won't play for me, but this scandal is probably the worst of them all.
Mass unionisation wasn't and isn't an issue, but in the 70's it was mad, striking over tea breaks and the like was just idiocy, and that's what put Thatcher in power, people were fed up with rubbish on the streets and dead bodies piling up in the mortuaries
70's Union leaders and shop stewards were little more than rabble rousers in a lot of cases, it was about power over the establishment (the Government) not about the workers they represented
Listen to the call when Reagan phoned her to retrospectively let her know he had undertaken military action in a UK territory (if I recall) without prior notice and she sounds like a fawning Aunt, not like the Iron Lady.
Think it was only made public ten years ago or so but was just so sycophantic, really made me realise how much of a useless person she truly was.Yes, wasn't this about Grenada or some British protectorate elsewhere in the Caribbean, where Reagan had invaded (his version of 'first strike' diplomacy) to prevent the spread of communism (assumed left wing takeover) on the US doorstep?
One reason the call was made public I suspect was the 'fawning' from Maggie was to show her support for Reagan and her appreciation of the unofficial help we received from Al Haig, vis-a-vis 'Exocet missile' information during Falklands War.
