Originally posted by VargOn the other hand, New labour do have a singular talent for keeping the crotchety elderly in line.
I have hated Maggie for most of my life, my parents have hated her for so many reasons.
I hated the Major government too, although he himself was relatively inoffensive, if a bit dull and idiotic.
But most of all I hate the "New" Labour clowns who couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel and are such useless, moronic, middle-management waffle, buzz-word, air ...[text shortened]... pt Major) and thinkers.
Obviously Tony Benn was the best but he seems to be losing it recently.
Originally posted by ivangriceOkay:
You seem to purposefully miss the point, time and time again.
In order:
Why is a three-day week so good, beyond the infantile 'woo-hoo, four day weekend!'? Why, if it is so obviously better than the standard five-day week, has it not been adopted world-wide? Years ago?
You're seriously claiming that the power cuts in the late 70s (due to stri ...[text shortened]... red the lives of many is truly beyond me. A woman I'm assuming you've never met. Good grief.
The reason a 3 day week has not been introduced is because the rich will not be quite as rich if everyone didn't slave their guts out those extra two days.
Most power cuts I've heard about were not due to strike action. I'm not 100% sure on this though, but I can't be arsed going digging either. You come with the proof if you're so into debating.
If competition is the essence which leads to sustainability, then surely competition in violence (instead of an army or a police force) would only lead to more sustainability. It's an old Ayn Rand debate, which, since I'm hungover again, I'm not going to get into. Ayn is another woman on my hate list.
People say: "The unions (which means the workforce) had too much power". When they say this, they mean "The boss should have more power".
I can state this because there is a balance of power between the ruling class and the working class.
Now, when you state that the boss (who is a minority) should have more power, then you're saying that the majority should do what the minority wants.
That's the point I'm trying to make and obviously failing to do so.
What if my drugs use is a result of thatcherite policies? Who's to blame then for my drug induced hatred?
How can I express such intense hatred? Easily.
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Originally posted by ivangriceWell, now, the four million unemployed figure hit home in four successive quarters of 1990-1 under the Major regime as I recall, so taking into account your suggestion and assuming a lag of more than two years - she was presumably even more incompetent than Shav is suggesting.
Do you understand the lag effects of fiscal and social policy on a large economy?
The problem in the 1970s were the restrictive practices of business (I can just about remember the semi-fascist talk of investment strikes by the CBI and the Institute of Directors when the government did things it didn't like, not that the future-facing corporate apparatchiks care to remember that these days), not trade unions, although one or two of them did resist the prices and incomes policy, which actually one of Callaghan's minor successes - on any league table of union disruption Britain was very middling, but in a league table of obsolete, class-based and incompetent management we were right at the top. That culture has partly gone now, but its passing has nothing to do with Mrs Thatcher (probably more to do with the Americans, ironically, because even before the era of Corporate Governance their firms had a reputation for abiding by the spirit as well as the letter of regulation, which is more than you can say for their British counterparts), which is more than you can say for the heroin factories which have replaced the mines in the colliery towns her cater-cousins shut down, or the chaos which has replaced the railways...on any number of indicators she was hopeless.
I can remember exactly where I was when the Tories ditched her in 1990 - I was jigging down the corridor singing "Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead!"