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182 Re: Thatcher Dead. Wed Apr 17 2013, 21:06
bwfc71
Ivan Campo
MartinBWFC wrote:Check the side of your house it might have a big fuck off yellow flower on it.bwfc71 wrote:I did, thats why I have been offline for most of the day, until the last 30 mins.
I would keep it, considering its a Banksy, but thats on the otherside of Tower Hamlets, unfortunately - I'm more towards Canary Wharf!
183 Re: Thatcher Dead. Thu Apr 18 2013, 19:49
Angry Dad
Youri Djorkaeff
Just read that some utter twat from yorkshire is blaming Mrs Thatcher for the lack of white dog shit!! she was he reckons responsible for putting poison in dog food and taking natural stuff out, thus depriving yorkshire of white dog shit in the summer.
They really got it in for her up there.
They really got it in for her up there.
184 Re: Thatcher Dead. Thu Apr 18 2013, 20:05
Soul Kitchen
Ivan Campo
I guess they wouldn't write what a right **** she was in the History books when you was at school?bwfc71 wrote:Nope, but my head was head high in celebration of a magnificent leader - someone that took Britian from the brink of despair, changed from old mutiny unions and a country that was a joke around the world because of the unions and strikes and shoddy workmanship to a country that has to be taken serious and is now Great again!
Perhaps it said what happened to the North Sea Oil revenue in the same and perhaps explained why all the mines with enough coal for 300 years were flooded? I'd be happy to read the logic behind it but I suspect that's gone forever now?
185 Re: Thatcher Dead. Thu Apr 18 2013, 22:42
Tigermin
Tony Kelly
Racist !!!Natasha Whittam wrote:scottjames30 wrote:
We could discuss shit like this all day, but I can't be arsed .
Wanderlust is a Muslim Argentinian, he'd love to debate about the nasty British.
186 Re: Thatcher Dead. Thu Apr 25 2013, 18:24
Mr Magoo
Youri Djorkaeff
And the funeral only cost £3.6 mil, money well spent, R.I .P Maggie.
187 Re: Thatcher Dead. Thu Apr 25 2013, 19:43
bwfc71
Ivan Campo
Soul Kitchen wrote:I guess they wouldn't write what a right **** she was in the History books when you was at school?bwfc71 wrote:Nope, but my head was head high in celebration of a magnificent leader - someone that took Britian from the brink of despair, changed from old mutiny unions and a country that was a joke around the world because of the unions and strikes and shoddy workmanship to a country that has to be taken serious and is now Great again!
Perhaps it said what happened to the North Sea Oil revenue in the same and perhaps explained why all the mines with enough coal for 300 years were flooded? I'd be happy to read the logic behind it but I suspect that's gone forever now?
I wouldn't know as that more recent history wasn't part of the GCSE curriculum when I was taking them in 1988!! But I do know that more mines were closed before and after her reign that what were closed during her reign!!!
188 Re: Thatcher Dead. Thu Apr 25 2013, 21:15
Soul Kitchen
Ivan Campo
As Gary Moore said "a cold day in hell" it will now be since she's turned all the furnaces off! Still at least she won't be seeing Gary perform in the Great Gig In The Sky!
189 Re: Thatcher Dead. Thu Apr 25 2013, 21:34
Reebok Trotter
Nat Lofthouse
Soul Kitchen wrote:Perhaps it explained why all the mines with enough coal for 300 years were flooded?
In 1983 a sustainability test was carried out by the Coal Board in all the pits in South Yorkshire and Nottingham and the findings were that the vast majority of seams only had a maximum of 20 years worth of coal in them and that long term, coal was no longer a viable source of fuel for the foreseeable future. What made matters worse was that it was actually cheaper for the UK to buy and import coal from Holland and that is exactly what Thatcher did. In order to take on Scargill she needed the police on her side. A review of police pay and conditions had been carried out by the previous Labour government headed by Lord Edmund Davies, a Labour peer. His recommendations to James Callaghan were that the police were woefully underpaid and that the rank and file membership should receive a substantial pay increase. Callaghan at that time was still struggling to come to terms with the ' Winter of Discontent ' and put Davies recommendations on the back burner.
As soon as Thatcher got into power in 1979 she implemented the Edmund Davies recommendations in full. She need the police to help defeat the Unions and a substantial pay rise ensured she had them in her pocket.
She took on the steelworkers of Sheffield and the miners and she brought out a law making secondary picketing illegal. She was determined to put an end to militant unions and when Scargill ( foolishly ) refused to ballot his members on strike action he played into her hands. Coal from Holland had been stockpiled and it was simply a matter of time before the miners were defeated.
Love her or hate her but never forget that she only picked a fight that she knew she would win.
191 Re: Thatcher Dead. Thu Apr 25 2013, 21:51
Reebok Trotter
Nat Lofthouse
doffcocker wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TFx9u1t1LY
Chubby Cyril Smith in the background.
193 Re: Thatcher Dead. Thu Apr 25 2013, 22:45
Tigermin
Tony Kelly
Reebok Trotter wrote:Soul Kitchen wrote:Perhaps it explained why all the mines with enough coal for 300 years were flooded?
In 1983 a sustainability test was carried out by the Coal Board in all the pits in South Yorkshire and Nottingham and the findings were that the vast majority of seams only had a maximum of 20 years worth of coal in them and that long term, coal was no longer a viable source of fuel for the foreseeable future. What made matters worse was that it was actually cheaper for the UK to buy and import coal from Holland and that is exactly what Thatcher did. In order to take on Scargill she needed the police on her side. A review of police pay and conditions had been carried out by the previous Labour government headed by Lord Edmund Davies, a Labour peer. His recommendations to James Callaghan were that the police were woefully underpaid and that the rank and file membership should receive a substantial pay increase. Callaghan at that time was still struggling to come to terms with the ' Winter of Discontent ' and put Davies recommendations on the back burner.
As soon as Thatcher got into power in 1979 she implemented the Edmund Davies recommendations in full. She need the police to help defeat the Unions and a substantial pay rise ensured she had them in her pocket.
She took on the steelworkers of Sheffield and the miners and she brought out a law making secondary picketing illegal. She was determined to put an end to militant unions and when Scargill ( foolishly ) refused to ballot his members on strike action he played into her hands. Coal from Holland had been stockpiled and it was simply a matter of time before the miners were defeated.
Love her or hate her but never forget that she only picked a fight that she knew she would win.
Hear Hear
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