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In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
If Thatcher hadn't stepped in we would have continued going down the
pan, and by now we would be like Bulgaria or somewhere, instead of one
of world's richest countries.

The main reason we didn't 'go down the pan' was North Sea oil and gas.
Which is now running out.

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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
If Thatcher hadn't stepped in we would have continued going down the
pan, and by now we would be like Bulgaria or somewhere, instead of one
of world's richest countries.

The main reason we didn't 'go down the pan' was North Sea oil and gas.
Which is now running out.

No it was the fact that people in this country got real and stated to do
some work instead of sitting around reading the union rule book.

Bill

The points about malingerers and lazy sods I concur with wholly, but the
discussion centred on the causes of our present social malaise - Thatcher.


I suspect she'll get the blame for that a hundred years hence!....
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In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus

"mikes" wrote in message
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The seeds of our me-first society were sown by Mrs Thatcher and we are
still feeling the effects.

But me (and mine) first is the way it works. That's what we all do. That's
why income tax is organised so that the poor pay less, so they can look
after themselves. Socialism is OK as long as it's built on a sound
capitalist base, which pays for it. Once you take away people's incentive
the system fails, as in all communist experiments. Human beings are
programed to think about themselves and their families first. You can't
change human nature. Lots of people have tried and failed.



Couldn't have put that better myself;!..

The points about malingerers and lazy sods I concur with wholly, but the
discussion centred on the causes of our present social malaise - Thatcher.

If Thatcher hadn't stepped in we would have continued going down the pan,
and by now we would be like Bulgaria or somewhere, instead of one of world's
richest countries.

Yep we know someone from there .. she can't believe the opportunities in
the UK free of the dead hand of socialist control.....
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Tony Sayer

nt person would quarrel with a system that looks after those who
are in genuine need, because this is after all one of the main tenets of
the Christian religion on which our mainstream morality is based and it is
also a basic human instinct, but the present system whereby we effectively
allow and even encourage a subclass of malingerers to exist is totally
unacceptable to those of us who work hard and receive little or no help
from the state.

Bill


She said it three times in the same paragraph

1) "there's no such thing as society"
2) " people must look after themselves first"
3) "It is our duty to look after ourselves and then..."

I'm quite able to interpret it for myself thanks.

The seeds of our me-first society were sown by Mrs Thatcher and we are still
feeling the effects.

The points about malingerers and lazy sods I concur with wholly, but the
discussion centred on the causes of our present social malaise - Thatcher.

You are selectively quoting again. Try reading the extract in:-
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/spee...p?docid=106689


Yep ... puts a different slant on it .. ce ne pas?..
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In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
Yep we know someone from there .. she can't believe the opportunities in
the UK free of the dead hand of socialist control.....

The country most on the 'up' in the world is China. Which is...

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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
Yep we know someone from there .. she can't believe the opportunities in
the UK free of the dead hand of socialist control.....

The country most on the 'up' in the world is China. Which is...

Seeing the light...
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In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
Yep we know someone from there .. she can't believe the opportunities in
the UK free of the dead hand of socialist control.....

The country most on the 'up' in the world is China. Which is...

Seeing the light...

And as it 'sees the light' so will its workforce and demand a larger slice
of the cake *they* have helped to produce. A few crumbs to start with,
perhaps.

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Halmyre wrote:

I still have my first Timex LCD watch. One of these days I'll try and
power it up and see if it still works. Meanwhile it comes in handy as a
boat anchor, or for stunning rhinoceroses.

I bought my first LCD watch in 1977, it was a Casio, lasted until 1982. I
bought another Casio LCD and that lasted until 1999, I had to throw it
away because all of its rubber membranes had perished.

Back in 1977 a friend of mine also had an LCD watch, with a tritium
backlight. His father had bought it for him in the US.

yawn




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