Bloody tree-hugging hippie!!!
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The time machines go, the nuclear power source and distilled petroleum does not.
I think this is a fair analysis.
Here's a good one from the Beeb regarding Liverpool: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...yside-22073199
Key point: Thatcher didn't "hate" Northerners, some of her cabinet didn't care about them, but she didn't have any answers either.
Very few of the great leaders of that era remain. Thatcher has joined, John Paul Magnus, Reagan, Mitterand, Honeker, and Xiaoping among the majority. Kohl is a shell of a man, awaiting his turn. Only Gorbachev -- the "loser" of the Cold War -- is alive and well, sometimes speaking on the self-help circuit or on behalf of his wife's charity foundation.
I remember when these names encompassed all of our hopes and fears. What an era.
Of course, the '80s also gave us Duran-Duran, the Stray Cats, and Yuppies who managed to convince themselves that concaine was not addictive. So perhaps I am waxing eloquent about another era that was no more nor less than another era.
The 80s were the worst decade of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Parachute pants. And Maggie Thatcher. What else do you need to know?
https://i.imgur.com/mo2kdub.jpg?1
Wait a minute, are you oldies saying my generation didn't invent drugs?
Ah the nippers. They think they invented everything. As I did when I was a teen. A long long time ago, I can still remember all the things they used to say....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U
Nowt really changes mate. Different faces same cretins.
She was a hypocrite and a tyrant. She claimed to roll back the state while increasing state spending massively. She claimed to be about personal freedom but created laws that gave the police sweeping powers of arrest and detention and targeted people who were not like her . She claimed to be free market but manipulated the economy to create the huge banking industry that has bankrupted us and made her husband and his clique fantastically wealthy.
Perhaps. But if the alternative was Foot or Kinnock then no contest.
You'll not find me defending any UK politicians.
PVC:
I am not sure if Idaho has been out at rallys or petitioned his MP to complain; nor do he and I view things eye-to-eye on most political issues.
Over the years on this forum, though, he has been pretty consistent in his disdain for virtually all of Britain's political leadership. I'll credit him with consistency.
Tell you what - if you run for parliament in the next election I'll vote for you (for those who don't know, Idaho and I live in the same constituency).
My point is - you complain but you also absent yourself from the whole political process, which makes your opinion redundant.
We get the politicians we deserve - you don't like anyone who gets elected, but you don't even vote for the ones who don't get elected. So you're a part of the problem, if not actually emblematic of it.