Orgreave

[mushroom25]

this weekend marked the 34th anniversary of the "battle of orgreave" -
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-44500039

given that after all this time, most of those (whether police, governmental or strikers) responsible for the decision making at orgreave will be long gone from office, or dead, what exactly would an inquiry achieve now, or any time in the future, save for the spending of an awful lot of cash?

[Zacs-Master]

Oh, we have to have inquiries. The raking over of past incidents with the benefit of hindsight is very fashionable.

[Old_Geezer]

Inquiries are to uncover truth, aren't they ?
Or maybe to whitewash the actions of some.

[Jackdaw33]

It's all a plot to give that dreadful man Scargill another platform.

[Zacs-Master]

How do you work that out?

[gulliver1]

Must we be reminded again of that dreadful Woman , Thatcher .

[Guilbert53]

>>>Must we be reminded again of that dreadful Woman , Thatcher .

The one who "saved" this country from Communist union members who were determined to drag this country down and down.

Have a look at someone like "Red Robo" who worked (and I use the term loosely) at British Leyland and brought the workers out time and time again for trivial reasons (and he was a communist).

He and people like him just drove British Leyland out of business.

Have a look at the state of the country was like BEFORE Thatcher got in, see the Winter of Discontent (under LABOUR) before she got in to power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent

The only reason Blair, Brown et all were able to get in in 1997 with the country in such good financial shape was the brilliant job Thatcher did in her terms in office.

She "saved" this country every bit as much as Churchill did in WW2.

If she had not got in to power and done such a brilliant job I have no idea what an awful a state this country would be in.

We would probably be fighting with Greece to be the "sick man of Europe" (we were certainly the "sick man of Europe" before she got in to power).

She did a GREAT job and no one should forget it.

[Jackdaw33]

Amen to that, Guilbert.

[gulliver1]

Oh dear , do your toes hurt? .

[gulliver1]

Did Thatcher resign, or was she dumped?. Think she had a row with Howe

[Jackdaw33]

Howe was an anagram of a Danish king of England. TGL raised him from nothing and her reward was to be stabbed in the back by him, ably aided and abetted by that other arch-traitor, Heseltine.

[gulliver1]

"If she had not got into power, and done such a brilliant job I have no idea what an awful state this Country would be in". Eh think you need to go to Spec Savers.

[NoMercy]

'Tis you who is short-sighted, Gulliver. MT was a great leader indeed.

[ToraToraTora]

perlease, everything is already known, what would an inquiry achieve? More lefty chaval cack

[gulliver1]

After all the experience she gained , working in her Fathers Grocery shop, why didn't Thatcher just get a job at Tescos? would have saved the Country a lot of misery.

[diddlydo]

Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to this country - she starved the education service (remember "Margaret Thatcher milk snatcher" amongst everything else), she starved the NHS but she found plenty of money to wage war over the Falklands. As for the miner's strike - she should have been hung drawn and quartered for her handling of that.

[Old_Geezer]

Saved the country ! LMAO (Or would be if it hadn't been so disasterous)

[dannyk13]

Do I detect a faint feeling of animosity towards Mrs Thatcher?

[diddlydo]

I have an empty champagne bottle that I bought on my way home from work the day Thatcher resigned/got dumped. Inscribed on the bottle it says "RIP Thatcher and Good Riddance"

[mushroom25]

much as it's interesting to see that society is still polarised by the prime minister at the time of the miner's strike, I raised the question to try and find out what value could be added by holding an inquiry now (or in the future), when so many of the players are no longer around and the possibility of acting decisively on its findings are practically nil?

[ToraToraTora]

TGL: "Her critics forget or ignore just how parlous was the state of Britain in 1979, and offer no credible policy alternatives about how the country could have been saved from union tyranny, hugely inefficient and loss-making state-owned industries, the stagnation of enterprise."
https://www.historyextra.com/period/what-is-the-nature-of-margaret-thatchers-legacy/
I think the anti British preferred living in the putrid mess that the left had created up to 1979. Of course most of the snowflakes are too young to know what it was like, hence we hear them spouting hatred of the woman they never knew, that gave them their comfy existance. They've had a lifetime of lefty teachers demonising TGL because they hated her for ripping up their flawed Ideology.