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Originally Posted by squealy
I think you'll find it was Edward Heath's Conservative government that were responsible for this by gaining us entry into the EEC in 1973.
Btw for those critical of Thatcher's employment training schemes, I was a victim of one myself in the late 1980s. I was taught how to operate computers and how to type, and haven't been out of work for any significant length of time since.
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Yes I'm well aware of Heath's role in signing us up for the common market but it was subsequent treaties allowing and following the expansion of the EU which has got us to where we are with no control over our broders with Europe and increasingly few of our laws. IMHO Heath was an awful PM but even I can't blame him for what subsequent governments have allowed to happen and the way in which an 'economic community' has been hijacked by those obssessed with a single European state.
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Originally Posted by Derek
Or they could send children up chimneys instead 
Who would buy the coal produced in the UK when they can get it far cheaper elsewhere? |
Yes and I dare say Arthur would be the first to complain about the resulting increased cost of energy and blame that on Thatcher and those evil Tories too...
