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Poll: Who Will You Be Voting For In The Next General Election?

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  • drbeat
    drbeat Posts: 627 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    Does not wash with me I cannot stand Blair and Brown :eek:

    Oh I see...In future I'll not bother with Blair/Brown/Thatcher comparisons. :rotfl:
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    I wonder who allowed British manufacturing to be wiped out :D not that champion of British intererests Thatcher:eek:

    Mostly she removed state support that couldn't be afforded.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Mostly she removed state support that couldn't be afforded.

    No she decided that only the strongest would survive, every other country were providing support, she was fodder for the free trade morons :D Now we have little manufacturing industry.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    drbeat wrote: »
    Oh I see...In future I'll not bother with Blair/Brown/Thatcher comparisons. :rotfl:
    Fine, they all give me the creeps :eek:
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • luvpump
    luvpump Posts: 1,621 Forumite
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    A sentence making absolutely no sense whatsoever, with bad punctuation, poor grammar and incorrect capitalisation that precedes a statement calling people thick is an irony I really enjoy.
    It must be a tremendous burden being so much more intelligent than others on the board, quite a burden infact :rolleyes: ..

    Anyway .... Childish Arguments aside.. 133 to 40 seems quite conclusive to me !! How can the huge differance be explained :confused:
  • drbeat
    drbeat Posts: 627 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    she was fodder for the free trade morons :D Now we have little manufacturing industry.

    was it not always on strike before she got in though?
  • Driver8
    Driver8 Posts: 743 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    What, even the racist and homophobic bits?


    Yes, especially those.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    luvpump wrote: »
    It must be a tremendous burden being so much more intelligent than others on the board, quite a burden infact :rolleyes: ..

    Where did I say I was more intelligent than anyone on this board?

    edit: aside from the racist idiot above me. I'm more intelligent than him.

    :)
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    drbeat wrote: »
    was it not always on strike before she got in though?

    What is it, just out of interest ?
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • drbeat
    drbeat Posts: 627 Forumite
    manufacturing industry. Are you drunk?
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