Park Life

The whole Thatcher thing is a myth created by the dominant right wing media at the time. Most of it is total bollocks... It's true that inflation hit 27 per cent in 1975, but this was largely a consequence of the Yom Kippur War oil price shock, which saw oil prices quadruple, and not a sign that the mixed economy model had collapsed. By 1978, the British economy was rapidly improving. Inflation was down to single figures and unemployment was falling too. Productivity was rising, including in the nationalised industries. North sea oil revenues were starting to transform the balance of payments, which showed a surplus of £109m in 1977. And in December 1978 Britain recorded a massive trade surplus of £246m. Britain was a contented society that had a healthy work-life balance During 1978, Britain's standard of living rose by 6.4 per cent to reach its highest ever level: so much for the 'Sick Man of Europe'. "The outlook for Britain is better than at any time in the postwar years," was the verdict, not of a Labour party propagandist, but of Chase Manhattan bank's chief European economist, Geoffrey Maynard. Bernard Nossiter, a Washington Post journalist, argued in his 1978 book Britain- the Future that Works, that Britain, unlike the US, had created a contented society that had managed to get the balance right between work, leisure and remuneration. Far from having had enough of Labour and the post-war consensus, opinion polls show that the party would have won a General Election, had Prime Minister James Callaghan called one, as expected, for October 1978. The so-called 'Winter of Discontent' of 1979 - which ushered in Thatcherism - is also shrouded in myth. James Callaghan never said 'Crisis, what crisis' - that was an invention of The Sun. The strikes themselves only lasted for a comparatively short period and were largely over by February 1979." Now fuck off you bat!!!

Think you're confusing the IMF and the EU fella. The EU is on the path of creating an over legislated Swiss like nowhereland where you have to sign a form to take a piss. Half the people there are ex-socialists and communists...They dream of a socialist hinterland. Our EU foreign minster who's just packed up on a 400,000 a year pay off was x-cnd. Van Rompoys wife is a communist....there's literally hundreds of them there setting up a quasi-soviet model funded by pretend money. It's a kind of socialist fascism - the recurring dream of our masters... By the time people wake up they'll be living in a Spanish potato farm gulag, exchanging carbon credits for pizza. Her reticence to the EU is why her paymasters kicked her aaahhht! She was just another plaything.

I know that is so factually accurate you can't scheme some hyperbole up to get round it. Think it was the Adam Smith institure and the CFR at the time with their neo-liberal privatisation scams. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/1576447/The-top-twelve-think-tanks-in-Britain.html

The EU has already and will over time undo everything Thatcher did. She will be remmebered as a fly in a gigantic EU buffet of wealth spreading, rights bargaing and country bankcrupting. She was smalltime. She was only big at a time when England thougt it was small. I would thrash her at chess, bridge or any other fanciful wager she could ever come up with.

Here's the news Romeo...The EU is a socialist dictorship. I win.

Thatcher married a multi-millionaire before she was an MP (who had gold and diamond investments in South Africa). She was given a safe tory seat to fight (no heroics there). She did the bidding of the CFR and the emerging atlantic consensus (money markets, think tanks, ngo's and so on...) She had the backing of the right wing media (News international and so on..)She was a puppet for the ruling elite that wanted to de-industrialise the west and thus remove wage bargaining, workers rights and their political dienfranchisement. She was only removed when she forgot the script regarding europe...One thing she was absolutely right about. One day when she will be remembered as what she was - a traitor to her country in favour of the international elite.

There is no hell mate.

Govt. have been too busy making money from cars.

"This town is commin like a ghost town"...

"Prior to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, US and other western oil companies were all but completely shut out of Iraq's oil market,"

One of the funniest threads on the interwebs.

I imagine his first act will to instill a eugenic type breeding programme to filter out the stupid and the infirm. First results have already come to light..

Italian fascism has always been a bit gay compared to the real thing. They couldn't even conquer Ethiopia ffs!

http://azizonomics.com/2013/03/20/when-all-else-fails-housing-bubble/

It was like any other day in Londonsony, dead winds snaked in and out of the corpocracy and people huddled in their Nikesmoks against a leaden dark sky. The city air hung with the stench of the dead Thames riddled with the genome strays that had killed all life in it. It was my day to give the 2nd talk of leaderworker Assange as gifted to us from the Amerigo Embassy (after the 2nd american revolution) and as I mulled what quotes to use I saw an old poster fluttering in the wind under the Embankment it said: 'No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor'. Seneca to Nero.

Nurseries should be free in a country that is the 5th richest in the world. The nhs is a working environment that large I'm sure it should have its own nurseries for all workers in need of one. Not sure but still think it's free in France. It's a universal right in Austria. Free childcare. The worked out the Govt would get more tax from women working etc...Than it would cost to fund it.. http://www.en.bmwfj.gv.at/Family/ChildCareInAustria/Seiten/default.aspx

It's still an admin saving and a slightly bigger pathway to work for younguns.

I've always believed there should be institutional help for nurses wether it's tax credits or loyalty bonuses for staying in the NHS. Vote Parky!

Tax threshold raised to 10k. Good. New employer allowance is also a good idea. 2k N.I. let off for everyone employed. The Mittlestand (small to middlegroup employers in germany gets loads of these kinds of breaks). Would have taken pensioners off council tax....

Climate change levy. It begins.

He's got form though.

Ready for duty Sir!

The broths are a bit of a fiddle man. Normally boil cheap meat for a couple of hours and skimming and so on..iirc

Two of the thickest jackasses in power in the western world surely?

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