Secret Thatcher plans to scrap the welfare state now released.
 

I remember the liar saying that the NHS was safe in her hands.

A well as the NHS, she wanted to scrap welfare benefit uprating & free education too:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politi...-welfare-state

Be interesting to see what Cameron was doing behind the scenes when these records are released; not that i'll still be here then!

Re: Secret Thatcher plans to scrap the welfare state now released.
 

Most politicians are experts at lying so sadly that's nothing new Richard.

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So proposals drawn up by the CPRS are now Maggies secret plans? How rediculous (not that I expect anything less from the Express).

The Government frequetly ask Think tanks, Quangos and departments to come up with money savings ideas, that doesn't make them Government plans.

A proposal is just that, not a plan.

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You should not bring facts into a good rant people don't like it ;)

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Oooops sorry about that.

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Apparently, her whole cabinet was horrified and she said that she'd stopped pursuing this.

Secretly, she hadn't.

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And yet in modern Britain we have very costly higher education that used to be free ,severe cut backs in defence ,serious doubts on the continuation of the state pension with a mandatory private pension paid through your employer and an NHS run by private trusts .All of the above was mentioned in the report and dismissed as crazy talk ,and yet ........

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Can you show where she said that Richard or do you just believe everything a rag like the Express states.

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However, in the 80s, around 1 in 7 18-21 year olds went to University, and now it is 1 in 2, and men (on average) are living 10 years longer than in the 1980s, and we were at the height of the Cold War..

These things have to be paid for, or in rhe case of the Forces, less expenditure because of less need...

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Has been a while since we had an "evil maggie" thread of course she's responsible for everything even things done long after she left politics because of course she set things up constraining blair and all the others to follow her plans. Some people need to seriously move on and leave the past where it is, it's not like utopia came to be after her and being honest i think most people would prefer to have a maggie type back rather then what we've ended up with lately.

Re: Secret Thatcher plans to scrap the welfare state now released.
 

Maggie, for all her faults at the time was far better than what we have now.

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Damn right she wasn't perfect but she did have the best interests of this country at heart.

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Can't believe I'm saying this, she probably was better than what we've got now. However she/he was a bloke in drag, so you're right, not perfect.

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I met her a number of times - she wasn't....

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Ahh, but how do you know Hugh ? That's the question ;)