Thatcher Dies

[nothernlite 18,089]

would you no need money to travel the distance you do for your sport

[tjones3862 3,423]

would you no need money to travel the distance you do for your sport

i can find sport on me door step iff i want to,, dont cost a penny,,

[The Seeker 3,048]

Maggie stood up to the unions and rightly so.

 

The miners strike was unofficial was it not? who made lots of money from the strike? Arthur Scargill and the union officials

 

If someone ducked Arthur Scargill's head under water he would surface shouting strike what a crook, all that he did was lose the working men who couldnt afford it a years pay

Scargill what a clown, he wanted to be the man to bring down a govt single handed when all he succeeded in doing was causing misery for thousands. He's still at it now suing the union he was once president of as he expected them to provide him a house in London and a car for free of the rest of his life.........

 

Just a small point also to those criticising thatcher did any of you or your parents buy their council house, mine did and it was the best thing they did.

[riohog 5,708]

 

would you no need money to travel the distance you do for your sport

i can find sport on me door step iff i want to,, dont cost a penny,,

 

 

lets foget about the money side of this for a min because thats what it boils down to at the end of the day,,..iff she was still in today wud your sport be banned,,,some times money comes second, me sport,, me pass time.. me life doing some think

i love gives me more plesure than money can give me,,

and what were you doing when maggie was in power?

[Malt 379]

lets foget about the money side of this for a min because thats what it boils down to at the end of the day,,..iff she was still in today wud your sport be banned,,,some times money comes second, me sport,, me pass time.. me life doing some think

i love gives me more plesure than money can give me,,

The money side of things was still pretty f***ing important when I was growing up hungry in the 80's while watching newly minted Yuppies prancing about the city on the news every time it was on..

[tjones3862 3,423]

A i was in the same boat, no work wheeling and dealing but i got through it, like most did,

[nothernlite 18,089]

had to travel to london to work in the late 80s to find work because everything was shut down with the torrys when they told us notherNers to get on our bikes

[riohog 5,708]

A i was in the same boat, no work wheeling and dealing but i got through it, like most did,

so it made no difference to you atall then did it .and still doesent

[seprim 32]

Maggie stood up to the unions and rightly so.

 

The miners strike was unofficial was it not? who made lots of money from the strike? Arthur Scargill and the union officials

 

If someone ducked Arthur Scargill's head under water he would surface shouting strike what a crook, all that he did was lose the working men who couldnt afford it a years pay

The Unions had the country by the balls and they were stupid, greedy and selfish and had to be stopped. Scargill was the enemy, as were the unions. What the hell was he thinking?... that he could bully the elected representatives of the United Kingdom ? It was foolhardy at best. I worked with an ex miner (now a carpenter) and he said Scargill was on full pay for quite a few months during the strikes all the while asking his strikers to take nowt... chew on that.. . He was a sleazy unprincipled bar of soap.

What gets me is those self richeous twits from up north think that all this happened to them, and them alone. As it happens there were 12 coal mines closed in kent (south coast of England) and everyone thinks that it was the north and west that suffered all the closures. not so....

Mrs Thatcher - Union Breaker, Falkland saviour, Milk taker, socialist straightener and bettered in this century by none, equalled by one. Winston Churchill

I don't like her personally, but I do hold her achievements in very high regard.

RIP

[socks 32,253]

I haven't read this thread as I don't need to ... I for one won't miss maggie as a son of a miner growing up during the strikes we had it bad and not just for the 2 years but from before the strike and for many years afterwards ... We never recovered from what she did and we watched the rich getting richer ..........

[seprim 32]

had to travel to london to work in the late 80s to find work because everything was shut down with the torrys when they told us notherNers to get on our bikes

There was loads of work in the 80's I must have had 20 jobs from painter to hod carrier to tyre fitter to warehouseman to mail room assistant to bank clerk, you just had to move to where the work was at. Seems like you "notheNers" are a right self pitying lot to me . . .

In the 19th century most the work was in the North, the mills and the collieries etc Southerners moved up to the north and worked there. Its just life my friend.

[2.8 guy 403]

the comment of minors being over paid, plenty have died from working down the pit through disaster or work related ilness like emphacima and cillycosis, working to keep this country in industry heating our homes providing electricty

i grew up in the 80's my dad was a keeper but my uncles was minors my cousins was piss poor and night raids to get tatties and veg was common just to live, i can remember my mum and dad giving there kids our hand me downs as presents.

But i always remember this everyone pulled together and helped each other out.

The scars of the strikes still run deep and people who fell out at this time still hold that feeling

 

This ryhm always rings in my ears when i here thatchers name, Build a bonfire build a bonfire put margret thatcher at the top put the tories in the middle and burn the effin lot

 

But just to add a bit of balance i dont think labour is worth a carrot either

[tjones3862 3,423]

 

A i was in the same boat, no work wheeling and dealing but i got through it, like most did,

so it made no difference to you atall then did it .and still doesent i was on 84 pound a aweek on a semi skilled job,, miner was on 200 plus, a week,,,and i add a morgage, like i said i got through it, and i lost my job to,

[riohog 5,708]

 

 

A i was in the same boat, no work wheeling and dealing but i got through it, like most did,

so it made no difference to you atall then did it .and still doesent i was on 84 pound a aweek on a semi skilled job,, miner was on 200 plus, a week,,,and i add a morgage, like i said i got through it, and i lost my job to,

sorry to here that i was earning 4 times that but i was working away for weeks on end in a tin can i didnt sit on my arse and drip about it i did it i had to

[twobob 1,497]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yes he was down the pit for a while,and openly admits they where overpaid,all unions and fancy holidays most people out of the pit could see something had to be done and fair play for her for doing it,he will be having a wee drink tonight for her,

So you mean he couldnt Hack it so got out and now slaggs those that had the Minerals ?

Plenty Folk up here having a drink tonight too lol

OH HE COULD HACK IT BUT JUST COULDNT PUT UP WITH THE UNIONS AND RULES AND ALWAYS HAD AMBITIONS SO STARTED HIS BUISNESS WHICH IS STILL DOING WELL TODAY.

Work with a few like that now. They don't turn down the pay rises the unions get em though but would be the first to scab if there was a strike

the union leaders thought they wefre untouchable .. how wrong they were !! both shipyards and coliers , and car workers

what about the fishermen

well as i remember in the 70,s there was alot of eastern european rusian and so on raping the seas for fish . was that her fault i cant remember . i was on cable laying ships late 70,s i saw what power the unions had in the docks

no your right but did she do owt about it iron lady my ass