Here's how Brits and Scots are celebrating:
I got an email from a Brit pal who said he lives in the mining regions and they condemn the Witch for her role in destroying their industry and livelihood. Was also told by 2 others that "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead" is playing on British radio.
I though the Scots were British, too.
But to say that the country is celebrating just because of a few lefties are taking to the streets waving hammer and sickle flags to celebrate Lady Thatcher's death is exaggerating a little bit.
By the way, did you tell your friend that the coalmining industry in Britain was already a shadow of its former self BEFORE Thatcher came to power and that more pits were closed under a Labour Government in the 1960s than under the Thatcher government in the 1980s (for obvious reasons, the Left never mention this)?
Did you also tell him that globalisation meant that manufacturing industries in Britain - such as coal-mining, car-manufacturing and shipbuilding - were doomed BEFORE Thatcher came to power?
And did you tell him that such deindustrialisation also hit most other Western countries, some at an even worse rate than Britain?
If not, tell him. He needs to know. It's time the Left were educated on such matters.
Yup the lefties and the good highland Scots are celebrating.
Thatcher is a mixed bag really while defending the Falklands
she was also involved with the murderer of Chile and she is.
I will say again for the third time:
Pinochet's Chile was a great ally, and a great help, to Britain during the Falklands war. And what has not been mentioned in the above statement is that, at the time, Pinochet was immsensely POPULAR in Chile.
During the Falklands War the Chileans allowed disassembled aircraft to be shipped in for British use. But by far the most important assistance was intelligence. A long-range military radar was installed opposite Argentina's Comodoro Rivadavia air base. With this equipment, the Chileans provided the Task Force with minute-to-minute information on Argentine aircraft movements, so the Task Force commander could prepare his ships' defences and scramble fighters to intercept. On June 8 1982, however, the long-range radar had to be switched off for overdue maintenance. Argentine aircraft were thus able to launch a surprise attack, sinking the troopships Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram, with terrible casualties. Whether Britain could have won the Falklands War without Chile's help is debatable. Whether it could have done so without far greater loss of lives is simply not. Pinochet, who took every key decision, fully deserved Mrs Thatcher's gratitude.
largely responsible for putting Britain on the road to deregulation
and ruin
So are you saying that by the time Thatcher left office in 1990 the economy was in a worse that than it was in the 1970s when it was run by the trades unions and when it had to secure what remains the biggest bailout in HISTORY from the IMF in 1976?
Just look at the state the British economy was in in the Seventies when it was completely controlled by the Left. The trades unions ran the economy. We had an economy which was reminiscent of a communist eastern European state. The undemocratic leaders of the trade unions, who mostly seemed to have Scottish or Scouse accents, forced their workers to partake in crippling nationwide strikes even if they didn't want to. It was never put to ballot. There were even cases when one trade union, such as steel, went on strike just to support another completely unconnected trade union, such as coalmining. These strikes so crippled the country that in 1974 the Government had to introduce a three-day working week to save electricity because the coalminers kept striking.
Britain was also skint. It had to go begging to the IMF for money. Things got so bad under (surprise surprise) a Labour Government headed by James Callaghan that uncollected rubbish piled up in the streets and even corpses were left unburied. This was the winter of discontent.
Britain was not taken seriously around the world. Her Leftie-caused economic woes were known as the "British disease" and she was seen to be in terminal decline.
To her great credit, Thatcher tackled the militant unionists who so crippled the country at their whim. She introduced measures which ensured that proposed strike action would be put to the ballot. Thanks to her, strike action can now only take place when workers vote on it, rather than when their leaders feel like it. The Left love to peddle their myth that Thatcher tackled the unions. No, she didn't, she tackled their undemocratic militant leaders like self-confessed USSR lover Arthur Scargill who caused crippling strikes when they felt like it and she defeated them.
She privatised many British companies, taking them out of the hands of the state and into the hands of the British people.
She helped to liberate the Falkland Islands and by the late Eighties Britain's economy was growing around 5% a year. She'd taken the economy from being outpaced by the rest of Europe in the Seventies to now growing faster than the rest of Europe.
And, on top of all that, she helped to end the Cold War with her great friend Reagan and brought freedom and democracy to the peoples of Eastern Europe.
By the time she left office in 1990, Lady Thatcher had seen to it that Britain was now seen as a confident, wealthy and strong country on the world stage and the British economy was twice as large as it was when she took office in 1979.
Of course, her ignorant Left Wing haters like pointing to the fact that unemployment reached 3 million during her reign, but they ignore the fact that it was 1.5 million and rising rapidly during the the tenure of Labour's James Callaghan.
She was also right to end old-fashioned industries like coalmining which did not benefit the economy at all. In fact, these industries were doomed BEFORE Maggie came to power and the downfall of these industries and the inevitable job losses would have occurred anyway at some point. In fact, the coal industry was already a shadow of its former self BEFORE Lady Thatcher came to power - more pits closed in the Sixties than in the Eighties.
What is not often pointed out by Maggie's haters is that the same - or worse - deindustrialisation happened in most other Western economies. It's just that Thatcher was ahead of her time.
Another myth peddled by the Scots is that Thatcher set out to "test" the poll tax on Scotland. The chronology of the Poll Tax, however, offers no evidence for this oft-quoted claim. Ministers were already working on alternatives to the Rates – not exactly the fairest form of local taxation itself – when Scotland endured a rather traumatic revaluation in early 1985. The resulting political outcry that generated did spur Mrs Thatcher on, but her intention was always to phase in the Poll Tax on a Great Britain-wide basis over several years. Crucially, those who had her ear on Scottish issues – George Younger, Jim Goold, the Scottish Tory Chairman, and Willie Whitelaw – all thought differently and persuaded her to let the Scottish Office legislate early and separately ahead of the 1987 general election. She only agreed to this reluctantly and her bitterness is clear from her memoirs. ‘If, as the Scots subsequently claimed, they were guinea pigs for a great experiment in local government finance’, she wrote in The Downing Street Years, ‘they were the most vociferous and influential guinea pigs which the world has ever seen.’ An obvious retort to the ‘guinea pig’ argument: why, having ‘tested’ the Poll Tax unsuccessfully in Scotland was it then applied to England and Wales with no major changes?
