tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733583.post3665187255524624804..comments2024-03-04T08:34:20.376+00:00Comments on John's Labour blog: The Iron LadyJohn Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14269161145575667147noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733583.post-67121073849699335942013-01-08T18:17:02.089+00:002013-01-08T18:17:02.089+00:00Hi Anon
So what did she actually do then? Inflati...Hi Anon<br /><br />So what did she actually do then? Inflation was high under Thatcher and only brought under control by her successors. <br /><br />She might have hand bagged Godwin but she would have never left the banks to go bust. No one is that silly, even her.<br /><br />The real problem with Thatcher is that she had a closed mind, was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, a bigot who could see no way but her way.<br /><br />Such fanaticism has no place in British politics. <br /><br />Its more than a bit ironic that she eventually stabbed in the back by her own people. <br />John Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14269161145575667147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733583.post-6609373075772731092013-01-08T13:31:03.360+00:002013-01-08T13:31:03.360+00:00Thatcher was a fantastic Prime Minister. She got t...Thatcher was a fantastic Prime Minister. She got this country by the scruff of the neck, dragged it of its knees and made it great again. She did n't get everything right.... Her cuts to hospitals went too far. Selling off of council housing was a mistake (although her heart was in the right place). She wanted to liberate the poor. She wanted everyone to do well in and pull themselves up.<br /><br /><br />It was a time when inflation was running at 13% and the unions had cripped the country. Low inflation is something we take for granted.<br /><br />We are a very different country now. If she was running the country, she would not have allowed casino style banking. She would have let the banks fail (in a true free market economy). Thats the lesson Labour never taught the city. She would have got Fred Goodwin and hung him up by the short and curlies. <br /><br />It is interesting some of the things she said about socialism are still true today.<br /><br />(1) "those slackers who take, take, take, and contribute nothing to the community!” <br /><br />>>> Having seen with my own eyes, trouble makers from housing associations.... <br /><br />(2) I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.<br /><br /><br />(3) Thatcher "The trouble with socialism is, eventually you run out of other people's money."<br /> <br />(4) Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean—power over people, power to the State.<br /><br />(5) My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.<br /><br />(6) A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country’s flag.<br /><br />(7) There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.<br /><br />(8) Imagine a Labour canvasser talking on the doorstep to those East German families when they settle in on freedom’s side of the wall. “You want to keep more of the money you earn? I’m afraid that’s very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can’t have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That’s very divisive. You’ll send your child where we tell you.”<br /><br /><br /> <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com