Comments on: Jeremy Hardy thinks… about Margaret Thatcher

By: Bill Major

Bill Major — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:18:33 +0000

She began the revenge of the pre war ruling classes who believed that the enlargement of the franchise pre war,and the post war welfare state settlement, the increasing affluence of working classes,our retreat from empire,added up to the end of Great Britain. She laid the foundations of the myth of the property owning, share owning, entrepreneurial Britain.In fact the myth brought us debt, housing shortages and thousands of bankruptcies. She laid the myth that Britain was now “Great” again by retaking the Falklands, a myth that led to thousands of Iraqi and Afghan [not to mention British]deaths in the 21st Century.Her successors, from Major, through Blair and Brown to the present Thatcherites continue the rolling back of the post war settlement, with a vengeance.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:25:37 +0000

I was always taught if you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything.
So……………

By: Reid Railton

Reid Railton — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:32:37 +0000

Before Margaret Thatcher the number of children living poverty had been roughly level since the ’50s at 15% (one child in six)

Under Thatcher’s prime ministership the number of children living in poverty doubled – from 15% (one child in six) in 1979 to 35% (one child in three) in 1990.

In the ten years since then the rate has reduced by about 5% – but the IFS is currently forecasting that that reduction will be reversed in the next 2-3 years.

Sources
http://www.cpag.org.uk/povertyfacts/index.htm

By: chris patten

chris patten — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:42:09 +0000

The problem is she is cited as being a ‘conviction’ politician, hence she attended Eric Heffer’s funeral, respecting his different, but genuinely held, beliefs.

Unfortunately its not true, as the ‘market’ doesn’t decide, because its rigged. She was also the beginning of destroying the state to make large businesses’ richer and employ politicians.

Finally, not withstanding her mendacious attitude to her father, Councillor Roberts, she destroyed the concept of public service, replacing it with a poisonous culture of greed, which seems to drive people insane and distanced from 99% of the rest of humanity.