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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
This forum is about free speech, and the one thing l love about it, is the slanging matches that goes on between members.
On Friday morning, people will be saying, 'oh no ' they got in, then hell for the next five years, The election will gives us a party that will go on tv, to brag at what they are going to achieve, and it will be a load of crap, IF the Tories get in, then prepare yourself for Thatcher 2, as that is what is going to happen. That is my last word on the subject.
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Thatcher 2 is indeed incoming. Certainly the cuts needed are as savage as those she undertook (
Labour's words by the way, not mine).
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I asked Alistair Darling to spell out how tough spending cuts could be:
Robinson: "The Treasury's own figures suggest deeper, tougher than Thatcher's - do you accept that?"
Darling: "They will be deeper and tougher - where we make the precise comparison I think is secondary to an acknowledgement that these reductions will be tough."
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Kinda puts all those promises that Gordon Brown is blowing up the electorate's backsides into context doesn't it when his own Chancellor goes off message by
telling the truth. Only the Tories have been anything like honest and they are still way short of how nasty it's actually going to have to be. Brown is just giving out nonsense about making promises and trying to divert attention from the scale of everything as much as possible.
I respect Alistair Darling for that a great deal - that he has been good enough to tell the truth sometimes. More than his boss has done.
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
Don't make me laugh, on Thatcher, she crippled this country, and l for one was glad when she was forced to resign. She destroyed a great country, you lot must be all Tory, to come out with all that crap,
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She brought the UK back from the humiliation of an IMF bailout and the financial mess that Labour left behind. Her and Major left a strong and growing economy behind with the government running a surplus.
She is hated because of the decisions she had to make to tidy up the mess that Labour left behind, just as the next government will be disliked due to having to tidy up the mess that Labour leave behind.
It's been a simple pattern, Labour rape the economy to grow the state and try and run everything, Tories have to rape the state to try and repair the economy.
Contrary to the ongoing Labour economic wisdom bills do have to be paid and state spending doesn't make or grow the economy, only private sector production can do that.
The Tories did of course make mistakes, plenty of them, but at very least they left a decent and balanced economy behind as opposed to the abject mess that Labour have left behind this time and in 1979, assuming they don't find a way to scare the electorate into voting for them on Thursday.