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50 years since Thatcher became leader...
« on: February 11, 2025, 11:22:13 AM »
...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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Re: 50 yearssince Thatcher became leader...
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2025, 01:48:23 PM »
...and we are still suffering some bad effects of her disastrous premiership.

Could you name some?
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Re: 50 yearssince Thatcher became leader...
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2025, 02:20:02 PM »
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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Re: 50 yearssince Thatcher became leader...
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2025, 04:11:18 PM »
Thatcher
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/margaret-thatcher-50-year-anniversary-tory-leader
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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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Re: 50 yearssince Thatcher became leader...
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2025, 08:06:34 PM »
Awful woman, awful policies.

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Re: 50 yearssince Thatcher became leader...
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2025, 01:55:10 PM »
Awful woman, awful policies.
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Re: 50 years since Thatcher became leader...
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2025, 03:28:43 PM »
... and the right to buy
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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
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Re: 50 years since Thatcher became leader...
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2025, 04:30:58 PM »
Thatcher was bad enough, but some of her Tory successors like Johnson and Truss were even worse, in my opinion.
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Re: 50 years since Thatcher became leader...
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2025, 08:50:24 AM »
And what about the Beer Orders - separating public houses from breweries?
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Re: 50 years since Thatcher became leader...
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2025, 09:08:54 AM »
And what about the Beer Orders - separating public houses from breweries?

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