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Thatcher poll: worst or best

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  • dryhat
    dryhat Posts: 1,305 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    I thought the SDP were formed a long time before Blair took over

    They were.

    Sorry.
    Just looked back at the posts.

    I was on about labour during thatcher's early years when I mentioned SDP
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    dryhat wrote: »
    That's why the SDP were formed.

    And in doing so, they helped split the labour party so much that neither could beat maggie on their own.

    Maggie gets lucky again.

    You think it was the SDP that made Foot unelectable? It's what you seem to be saying but you can't be because that would be such a ridiculous position to take.

    Labour lost the 1983 election because the British people didn't want to turn the UK into a client state of the USSR.

    http://thevieweast.wordpress.com/tag/prague-spring/

    1968-invasion1.jpg

    http://gulaghistory.org/

    The Graveyard of the Lazy:

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  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    Labour would have lost anyway but the SDP took the votes away from Labour not Maggie.

    The rest of the people from backgrounds like yours love being assigned to the scrapheap at 11.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    Labour would have lost anyway but the SDP took the votes away from Labour not Maggie.

    The rest of the people from backgrounds like yours love being assigned to the scrapheap at 11.

    Like whose?
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    edited 13 April 2013 at 10:49AM
    Generali wrote: »
    Like whose?

    I'm sure you know what I meant, for ever person that benefited from Grammer schools there were more who suffered because of them.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I'm sure you know what I meant, for ever person that benefited from Grammer schools there were more who suffered because of them.

    What's my background? You said:
    backgrounds like yours

    What do you mean by that please?
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    for ever person that benefited from Grammer schools there were more who suffered because of them.

    Really?

    Why would you think that?
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • michael1983l
    michael1983l Posts: 1,916 Forumite
    This is easy for me to work out. Previous to thatcher under Heath, the UK had just been to the IMF in 1976 for a loan as we were bankrupt much like Greece today. When Maggie took over the Country was in financial ruins in 1979, when Thatcher left the Country had the 3rd Largest economy in the world in 1990 in accordance with GDP. That speaks for itself, hard decisions were made and it affected many people but the end game was all there, it set us up to be the financial power players we were during the 90s and early 2000s. Without Maggie we would be no marks on the world stage now.
  • Sosdon
    Sosdon Posts: 480 Forumite
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    She wasn't the worse PM , nor was she the best..
  • Old_Git
    Old_Git Posts: 4,751 Forumite
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    Sosdon wrote: »
    She wasn't the worse PM , nor was she the best..
    who was the best,and why where they the best
    "Do not regret growing older, it's a privilege denied to many"
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