Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Steve H on February 11, 2025, 11:22:13 AM
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...and we are still suffering some bad effects of her disastrous premiership. Adored? Respected? I think I'll stick with hated.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/adored-despised-and-grudgingly-respected-how-thatcher-s-legacy-lives-on-50-years-after-she-became-tory-leader/ar-AA1yN13T
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...and we are still suffering some bad effects of her disastrous premiership.
Could you name some?
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Could you name some?
The near-destruction of British manufacturing industry. Privatisation, which led to tons of red tape, ionically enough, given her professed hatred of it,
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Thatcher
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/margaret-thatcher-50-year-anniversary-tory-leader (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/margaret-thatcher-50-year-anniversary-tory-leader)
After too-cheap privatisation, she spent the tax income...Who now would celebrate her privatisations of water, energy, Britoil and a host of public goods at well below market price? A total of £5bn in water debts was written off, with natural monopolies never constrained by weak regulators. Railways were privatised by her successor, following her creed. All this failure on an epic scale has taken decades and serial bankruptcies to acknowledge.
Thatcher claimed there was 'no such thing as society' and she destroyed it.
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Awful woman, awful policies.
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Awful woman, awful policies.
...and Section 28.
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... and the right to buy
Her most famous policy, right to buy, shows how the hangover never stops. Public money was spent on building those homes; public money was lost through giving them away cheap; and public money is now funnelled in housing benefit to the landlords who let them out.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/13/margaret-thatcher-council-housing-selloff-2024?CMP=share_btn_url (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/13/margaret-thatcher-council-housing-selloff-2024?CMP=share_btn_url)
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Thatcher was bad enough, but some of her Tory successors like Johnson and Truss were even worse, in my opinion.
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And what about the Beer Orders - separating public houses from breweries?
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And what about the Beer Orders - separating public houses from breweries?
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(Beer Orders) ?
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2019/12/11/How-the-Beer-Orders-still-influence-the-on-trade-30-years-later/#:~:text=Published%20at%20the%20end%20of%201989%2C%20the,%E2%80%93%20which%20added%20up%20to%2010%2C791%20houses.
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https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2019/12/11/How-the-Beer-Orders-still-influence-the-on-trade-30-years-later/#:~:text=Published%20at%20the%20end%20of%201989%2C%20the,%E2%80%93%20which%20added%20up%20to%2010%2C791%20houses.
I dislike the taste of beer and never go to a pub just for a drink, so consider that the least important of Thatcher's 'crimes'.