Oh Dear, Looks Like New Voters Can't Be Bothered.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl775w11nr1o

Apparently 4.5 million first time voters have yet to register. Most of them will not vote Tory so a worry for The Knights of the Lib Non dems and Labour.

The number is not in the link butit was mentioned on the 6 oclock news on the BBC.

[naomi24]

Which cohort was that?

[ToraToraTora]

untitled:"no davebro the tories worked very hard under thatcher to shower advantages on a particular cohort of the population who rewarded them with thumping majorities to keep doing it. " - in 1979 I was 16 living in our council house with unemployed and unemployable parents. I saw first hand what the hard left had done to the country, the union dogma, the out and out silliness of their demands. Many thought we were heading towards becoming a Soviet outpost, perhaps the anti British left wanted it. I hated them, could the rot even be slowed, let alone stopped or reversed? Then Commeth the hour commeth TGL she showed us the way out, yes the medicine was harsh but the patient needed it. Poltroons all around her urged restraint. Thank god the lady was not for turning. She did not give us advantages as you put it. She gave us something far more powerful, belief. The belief that by hardwork you can drag yourself out of anywhere and contribute to our great country. We did just that we were not special or privileged, just motivated, motivated to do well for ourselves and our country. We were Thatchers Childrem and proud of it. So don't paint the grocer's daughter as some kind of upper class agent, she favoured no one but gave everyone the same chance. It was there if you wanted to take it.

Sad that the modern youth have no idea what it was like Before TGL saved us.

[naomi24]

Well said, TTT.

[Old_Geezer]

Thatcher split the country, passed legislation to restrict the voice of the workers, threw loads out of work without providing alternative employment first. Some saving ! About the only thing she was good at was dealing with Johnny Foreigner.

[ToraToraTora]

OG, unemployment was innevitable because of overmanning caused by union laws making it almost impossible to fire anywone. As I said the medicin was harsh but the patient needed it. We were the sick man of Europe in 1979, have you forgotten what they did to the country?

[Sinead_O]

If any particular "cohort' were rewarded under the Thatcher administration, it was those who were willing to work and  wanted to get ahead.  I think the country needs a dose of that right now, and it won't come from the Tories or Labour, sadly.

[ToraToraTora]

To restore a car you must dismantle it and cut out all the rot then rebuild it. It's the same with a nation.

[10ClarionSt]

Thatchers' statue should be melted down and re-cycled as urinals. She did more harm to the industrial base of this country than Hitlers' bombers ever did. One of her legacys' is the shocking state of the current housing market. Another one is the greed of the utility companies. She should have been publicly hanged in Parliament Square for treason. Her husbands' cronies got rich by making profits on the break-up and sale of British companies. Great Lady my armpit. Great Lump more like it.

[Old_Geezer]

Sledgehammer and nut spring to mind.

[ToraToraTora]

There are many alive today who would never have experienced a real Labour government. They might not be so keen on "change" for the sake of it in a few years.

[ToraToraTora]

11:19, I knew that would draw out 10cs, it's almost a tradition! Do you have some sort of Bot looking for TGL posts?

[10ClarionSt]

Her legacys' are obvious. Nothing great about her. She ruined the industrial base of this country. 

[ToraToraTora]

...only to those that refuse to see.

[youngmafbog]

// She ruined the industrial base of this country. //

Bovine excretement.

[Untitled]

"Which cohort was that?"

Baby boomers

[Untitled]

"She did not give us advantages as you put it."

yes she did. she got as many of you as possible to buy houses as easily as possible and then threw everything but the kitchen sink at ensuring the value of those houses would increase explosively. you don't think of it as an advantage because you prefer to pat yourself on the back for a job well done. but the reason they introduced this change was to create a generation of loyal tories... and here you all are. that same cohort who got a massive shot in the arm from thatcher are now 40 years older and they are pretty much the last tories standing. 

[david small]

What a crock load of fertilisers on this post.

[Untitled]

did you honestly think thatcher was doing all that out of the goodness of her heart lol. she was a clever lady--cleverer by far than any modern tory. she knew full well what she was doing and the goal was to create a generation of tories. 

[naomi24]

You've been reading too much leftie fiction, untitled.

[Untitled]

🤣 pathetic.