Thatcher dead?

[MANTIS01]

Nah sound buddy I appreciate it.

[luther101]

Errrmmm - even now coal is used to generate 35/40% of the UK's electricity needs     ....    much of it imported.

I remember Scargill appearing on Question Time after the Miners Strike challenging some triple chinned Tory Minister to give British Coal the same annual subsidy as was given the Nuclear Mob.

Apparently the 'uncompetitive coal industry' could then have supplied the UK's power stations with coal that 'cost' nothing!

 

[TightEnd]

Errrmmm - even now coal is used to generate 35/40% of the UK's electricity needs     ....    much of it imported.

I remember Scargill appearing on Question Time after the Miners Strike challenging some triple chinned Tory Minister to give British Coal the same annual subsidy as was given the Nuclear Mob.

Apparently the 'uncompetitive coal industry' could then have supplied the UK's power stations with coal that 'cost' nothing!

 

imported at a far cheaper cost than UK industry could ever produce it......

Nuclear is subsidised because it is cleaner....

Nuclear has a very low risk for a very high benefit. Cradle to grave, nuclear power plants produce very little environmental impact for a very large amount of reliable power produced.

[The Camel]

Definitely pro Thatcher here and proud of it. My life, my family and those around me certainly benefitted from having a PM with balls. T

Sums it up really, me me me.

Yes it may be a 'me, me, me' centric view but so what. First and foremost my family and their welfare is my priority and secondly everyone else. It's my view and I'll stand by it. I am now able to support my family and contribute to society by means of my tax contributions and charitable donations all largely down to Maggie.

The Thatcher years made me what I am today and I'm proud of that. It taught me that I should not expect things on a plate and that I should earn what I want out of life whether that's working for myself or for somebody else.

My parents and school teachers taught me that.

tbf, they didn't do enough of a job on you or you'd be in a job that had you making a tax contribution to society

To be fair, I've long thought professionals gamblers should pay tax.

[luther101]

You not a fan then Luther?

Course not, he's soooo working class it hurts

Hush Duracell     .....      or I'll tell the nice NHS nurseys @ Harefield hospital about your Neo-NaziConservative views,

[AndrewT]

Whilst Thatcher didn't cause the Falklands War, it was immensely lucky for her that it happened.

In late 81/early 82 the Tories were under 30% in the polls, suffering at the hands of the SDP/Liberals, an alliance that would never have formed a government with them in the event of a hung parliament.

A few months later, the Tories are at 45% and steaming towards the 1983 landslide.

Without the Falklands, Thatcher becomes our Jimmy Carter.

[luther101]

Errrmmm - even now coal is used to generate 35/40% of the UK's electricity needs     ....    much of it imported.

I remember Scargill appearing on Question Time after the Miners Strike challenging some triple chinned Tory Minister to give British Coal the same annual subsidy as was given the Nuclear Mob.

Apparently the 'uncompetitive coal industry' could then have supplied the UK's power stations with coal that 'cost' nothing!

 

imported at a far cheaper cost than UK industry could ever produce it......

Nuclear is subsidised because it is cleaner....

Nuclear has a very low risk for a very high benefit. Cradle to grave, nuclear power plants produce very little environmental impact for a very large amount of reliable power produced.

Gulp     ....     the 'grave' of a nuclear power station will still be with us in 25,000 years.

And the bloody cost of de-commissioning has been dumped fairly and squarely at the taxpayers door!

[TightEnd]

Errrmmm - even now coal is used to generate 35/40% of the UK's electricity needs     ....    much of it imported.

I remember Scargill appearing on Question Time after the Miners Strike challenging some triple chinned Tory Minister to give British Coal the same annual subsidy as was given the Nuclear Mob.

Apparently the 'uncompetitive coal industry' could then have supplied the UK's power stations with coal that 'cost' nothing!

 

imported at a far cheaper cost than UK industry could ever produce it......

Nuclear is subsidised because it is cleaner....

Nuclear has a very low risk for a very high benefit. Cradle to grave, nuclear power plants produce very little environmental impact for a very large amount of reliable power produced.

Gulp     ....     the 'grave' of a nuclear power station will still be with us in 25,000 years.

And the bloody cost of de-commissioning has been dumped fairly and squarely at the taxpayers door!

and so your plan for the coal industry in 1981 was?

What would the Cassiobury John Maynard Keynes have done?

[bobby1]

Whilst Thatcher didn't cause the Falklands War, it was immensely lucky for her that it happened.

In late 81/early 82 the Tories were under 30% in the polls, suffering at the hands of the SDP/Liberals, an alliance that would never have formed a government with them in the event of a hung parliament.

A few months later, the Tories are at 45% and steaming towards the 1983 landslide.

Without the Falklands, Thatcher becomes our Jimmy Carter.

Thats deffo true Andrew but where would Winston Churchill be in the all time great leaders without the 2nd world war?

Fortunately for us both of them did a great job when war came along.

[The Camel]

"A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure."

[bobAlike]

Milk at my school was always warm, never enjoyed it.  Was glad when it all stopped.

Did you suckle on the cow?

[Jon MW]

"A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure."

yes it was probably her snobbishness about public transport that makes her the most hated person in the universe

[Graham C]

Milk at my school was always warm, never enjoyed it.  Was glad when it all stopped.

Did you suckle on the cow?

lol not quite.  It arrived and sat in a crate from early morning till milk time, it just got warm.   I don't think they thought to put it in the fridge.  

[AndrewT]

Whilst Thatcher didn't cause the Falklands War, it was immensely lucky for her that it happened.

In late 81/early 82 the Tories were under 30% in the polls, suffering at the hands of the SDP/Liberals, an alliance that would never have formed a government with them in the event of a hung parliament.

A few months later, the Tories are at 45% and steaming towards the 1983 landslide.

Without the Falklands, Thatcher becomes our Jimmy Carter.

Thats deffo true Andrew but where would Winston Churchill be in the all time great leaders without the 2nd world war?

Fortunately for us both of them did a great job when war came along.

Obviously political careers will always be shaped by 'events, dear boy, events'.

[MANTIS01]

"A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure."

Think that's pretty accurate. Last time I got on a bus it stank of piss and somebody was masturbating on the back seat. Sure felt like I was rolling with millionaires.