A Fitting Monument To One Of The Greatest Prime Ministers Of The 20Th Century

[youngmafbog]

A nice tribute to TGL.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4501484/Thatcher-statue-plinth-Parliament-Square.html

[tamborine]

Mickey, am sure you wouldn't want to work down a coal pit. There are lots of other jobs available if one is determined to earn a living.

[mikey4444]

Tambo...there may be now, but there wasn't during the peak of unemployment during the 1980's, and that is the period that she was in power.

Unemployment reached 3 million, or 12.5% of the workforce by January 1982.

As well as this high rate of unemployment, her fiscal policies resulted in mortgage rates of 17% in the early 80's !....I know as my monthly mortgage payments resulted in nearly 60% of my take home pay.

But all these consequences are carefully forgotten about by her supporters, for obvious reasons.

[Mamyalynne]

As Statues go , it is quite impressive.

There are some monuments I find awesome and thought provoking , this may not be one of them but am sure it will please many.

[mikey4444]

Mamy...I am sure it would delight many people on here !

[Baldric]

Well, she sent me to The Falklands, I'd never have seen them otherwise ;o)

[tonyav]

I wish I were a pigeon.

[mikey4444]

lol Tony !

[naomi24]

Mikey at 12:30 Sat, how much money from the sale of council houses did the subsequent Labour governments plough back into building more?

And Labour closed more coal mines than the Tories - but then you know that.

[Togo]

About time Mrs Thatcher was honoured properly.

I see we have drifted off into an anti Thatcher rant driven by the usual cabal and their squinted viewpoints. Soooo when people bought their own homes, you know homes that they were living in, this caused a housing shortage? How? Did the houses suddenly disappear or fall down? Off course the floods of immigrants have nothing to do with a chronic house shortage, that strangely only manifested itself during the years after Mrs T. left office. Once the lie is told and believed it needs a lot of medicine to flush the poison. And still they come. Off course the ones who bleat about house shortages, school overcrowding, low wages due to the plentiful supply of black economy labour, the struggle to cope at G.Ps and Hospitals, and the break down in law and order still maintain that all who wish must be allowed to enter the UK. Whilst they blame Mrs Thatcher for their woes they will never recover. She is still doing a great job for Britain by keeping them pre-occupied with a hate that keeps them focused not only on the wrong answers but the wrong questions too.

[Prudie]

in the words of Mikey - well said Togo!

[Islay]

Mikey with respect? Then you insult what I have written OK!!
My father always refers to it as a conflict and not a war as it was localised and not direct threat to the UK as a whole!
Baldric that is what my father say's. He loved it there and did 3 tours in total.

[mikey4444]

BOOOONG ! Togo...thanks for bringing in a anti-immigrant rant into this debate. I didn't think it wold be very long before someone did !

[naomi24]

Mikey, that was handy! Good way to avoid awkward questions. ;o)

[trt]

### £300,000 ###

That could buy a lot of food, for the genuine people in need.

[mikey4444]

Islay....I don't agree with what you have written, but respect your right to have that viewpoint !

But I can't see many people agreeing with you, when you say it wasn't a war. I wonder what the Simon Weston and his mates would say ?

[Togo]

Funny how Mikey ignored the points but focused on something that he could twist. As I said in the post, not just the wrong answers but the wrong questions. Deliberate though in some cases.

[youngmafbog]

A very good point well put Togo.

And now to Mickey, what do you think about "And Labour closed more coal mines than the Tories - but then you know that. " ?

[Prudie]

Why argue about semantics, it's often referred to as both the Falklands conflict and Falklands war equally? And although terrible for all involved the casualties on both side did not amount to what we usually think of as all out war. Are those who blame this all at MT's door saying we should have abandoned the British to the Argentinians?

[Islay]

Mikey, I was stating what my father says who has been there and who has also met Simon Weston on several occasions!!

A war is a conflict but a conflict is not necessarily a war. A war is an effort to exterminate an opposing side.

[mikey4444]

Prudie....I am not blaming anybody for the Falklands War although the Argentinians seemed to successfully invade the islands with remarkable ease. That maybe wasn't her fault, but the blame can hardly be laid at Labour's door either, can it ?