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Originally Posted by towny
This link is interesting:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3681973.stm
It appears even those who hated her have to admit this country is changed for the better as a result of what she did. Norman Tebbit has an interesting take on the 3m unemployed as well:
...She is blamed for creating three million unemployed. Of course, she didn't. She exposed the fact that three million people were on the payroll who were not doing a job. It wasn't always their fault. But in many cases we were over-manned. People were doing jobs which didn't need to be done and, of course, that was very painful. |
Personally I'd rather have people working (even if we are "over manned") then claiming benefit and sitting at home committing crime and causing mischief. I'm sure the 1.6 million others that were out of work because of MT cost cutting exercise would agree with me, I know my family would rather be working than sponging.
As for the rest of the article, yes I'd agree with you that new Labour is a bit of a hybrid, but there nothing wrong with that, your not telling me that the previous conservative governments have never taken policies from other parties and implemented them.
On the other issues, I cant honestly believe that the country would be in the state its in today if the conservatives were still in power, their lack of investment is still crippling the railways and the NHS, in fact the NHS may have even crumbled if the Tory's were still in power. You cant keep on asking for something to work without paying for it.