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  • IronWolf
    IronWolf Posts: 6,445 Forumite
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    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Nope...You must have remembered a different Thatcher. I was talking about the one who made four million people unemployed on purpose because apparently it was an acceptable consequence to reduce the inflation her policies caused. Then had the audacity to blame the jobless for not working.

    Its not her job to keep people employed in industries that are losing more than they make, and are completely unsustainable. The economy was in a terrible state before Thatcher, she took tough decisions, I dont think she enjoyed making people unemployed.
    Faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
  • IronWolf
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    lynzpower wrote: »
    Who said the Lib dems are more left than labour?

    Many LD voters thought so, then cannot believe thier eyes at what is happening.

    Thats what I mean, when someone is actually in power, they stop being idealist and start being realist. Opposition is always very idealist, because they can be with no consequence, and its more popular with the public.
    Faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Most of them had "striked" themselves out of a job or were working in industries that had no future anyway. eg mining.
    Four million on strike? I think that would have been noticed.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • IronWolf
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    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Four million on strike? I think that would have been noticed.

    The bottom line was that its cheaper for them to be on the dole, than working in failing industries and striking all the time.

    They would also be able to get a new job once the economy recovered, which it did and has happened.

    So long term, it worked.
    Faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Four million on strike? I think that would have been noticed.

    I bet you go to North Korea for you holidays too.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    abaxas wrote: »
    I bet you go to North Korea for you holidays too.
    Excuse me????
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Four million on strike? I think that would have been noticed.

    I would suggest that many of them were in industries with a high level of strikes.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    I would suggest that many of them were in industries with a high level of strikes.
    How many and which inductries?
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    I have no figures, but from what I remember mining, shipbuilding and car making were pretty high on the list.
  • IronWolf
    IronWolf Posts: 6,445 Forumite
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    Also the printing industry, which was in dire need of modernisation but couldnt because of the unions.

    Rupert Murdoch then sacked them all for striking (made possible by new Thatcher legislation).
    Faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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