UK: Margaret Thatcher

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O.K then here we go:

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The only reason why she used the oil money to balance the budget is because she made a mess of the economy. Oil was used to paper over the cracks of economic stupidity.

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Well... seeing as her goal was monetarism, she failed. Her vision of 19th centuary economic liberalism sans the social side, was never implimented. She Failed.
BTW it's absurd to say she made the U.K's economy strong. Check out some statistical yearbooks etc and don't believe what the media tells you.

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Not true.

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The Poll Tax was UNFAIR and morally wrong.

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Good for you.

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What she did to the Mining communities was pure evil.
No other argument is viable(and I'm not defending "King Arthur", I think he's an arsehole. He was right but he went about it completely the wrong way)

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Her "reforms" acheived nothing but a credit "boom" and a huge recession. 3 Million. I'm going to repeat that until it sinks in.

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And? What's that prove?

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So did every British P.M during the Cold War.

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Although it was her idiotic decision to remove the patrol boat that left an open goal for the Argentinians to start with...

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I see no reason to insult you.
I will insult the Grantham Ripper though.

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Actually UK coal is high quality stuff and is at the lower end of enviromental damage.
No Lignite(ie: brown coal) see?

King Coal has just recieved a blood transfusion(the government has just given the coal industry a lot of money. In the long run up to 300 jobs will be gained! It might not look a lot but it's the first good news for the coal industry since Tower Colliery was saved)

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You lot in a coma then?

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At the risk of repeating myself...
Thatcher's economic policies resulted in 3 million unemployed(it's about 900,000 at the moment. Go figure) and the worst recession since the '30's.
Her attempt to replace Keynesian economics with Monetarism failed miserably.
She did NOT leave Britain a stronger economy AT ALL. Just look at a few statistical yearbooks and adjust for wasted oil money.
Labour have not adopted Thatcherite economics. They are orthodox Kenyesians.

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Wilson, Heath and Callaghan all stood up against the U.S.S.R. It was something all British P.M's had done from the beginning of the Cold War to it's end.

Re. the Falklands War see my remark about the patrol boat.

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If shattered cities, depressed mining and steel producing regions, 3 million unemployed, a raft of bigoted legislation, economic stupidity etc. can be classed as "revitalization"...

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Except for Militant who were basically her mirror-image.

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Some restrictions on the Unions were nessessary... but she went too far with the GCHQ ban(now reversed).

What should have been done was making ADR easier for the Unions to use.

And it's not just Hecht who has form for despicible Acts... Liam Fox helped to filibuster a private member bill on disabled peoples rights.

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She's evil.