Every problem we face today is linked to Thatcher...
![[Deleted User]](https://w5.vanillicon.com/v2/57f1232cb310ec4720f019fb0cf83549.svg)
[Deleted User]
Posts: 2,113 Forum Member
✭✭✭
Meanwhile, Baroness Thatcher's policies were called "fundamentally wrong" by former London mayor Ken Livingstone.
He told Sky News the former Conservative prime minister was responsible for "every real problem" faced in the UK today, as he claimed she had led millions of people out of work.
Mr Livingstone said: "Of course she was popular, she was offering people their homes at a cut price. But she didn't build any houses.
"She created today's housing crisis, she produced the banking crisis, she created the benefits crisis. It was her government that started putting people on incapacity benefits rather than register them as unemployed because the Britain she inherited was broadly at full employment.
"She decided when she wrote off our manufacturing industry that she could live with two or three million unemployed and the legacy of that, the benefits bill that we are still struggling with today.
"In actual fact, every real problem we face today is the legacy of the fact she was fundamentally wrong."
He told Sky News the former Conservative prime minister was responsible for "every real problem" faced in the UK today, as he claimed she had led millions of people out of work.
Mr Livingstone said: "Of course she was popular, she was offering people their homes at a cut price. But she didn't build any houses.
"She created today's housing crisis, she produced the banking crisis, she created the benefits crisis. It was her government that started putting people on incapacity benefits rather than register them as unemployed because the Britain she inherited was broadly at full employment.
"She decided when she wrote off our manufacturing industry that she could live with two or three million unemployed and the legacy of that, the benefits bill that we are still struggling with today.
"In actual fact, every real problem we face today is the legacy of the fact she was fundamentally wrong."
0
Comments
Thatcher was very popular at the time, until the PollTax came about. She turned around a country that was on its knees to the Unions and gave us prosperity again.
It's a shame those on the left can't really give solid reasons behind hating her so much other than some rhetoric.
yet not a single one of those core policies was reversed in the last 23 years by any Party.........................................................
Come to any working mans club up here in the northeast and you will get all the answers you need :rolleyes:
jack
Those of us that lived though those dark days before thatcher know what really happened.
The unions bought this country to its knees.
Biggest smile I ever had on my face was when I saw Scargill and his murdering henchmen on TV defeated by Thatcher.
I very much doubt if Red Ed will if he gets into power.
Care to say some, or is it again all smoke and mirrors?
And look what a state we're in....................................
Actually old egg she was universally despised by the public and feared by her own party. However the opposition were an absolute shower at the time so presented very little threat to her. I was there I remember. Praise be to the Labour party for not doing the right thing and dealing with the problems caused by her premiership.
Get government out of the way and take responsibility for your own life. Create your own future and live it.
Unfortunately many people still can't accept that.
How can someone "universally despised" by the public win 3 general elections, or are you saying she only won because the opposition were so bad each time that people had no option but to vote for someone they "despised"...?
Hey, careful, someone's bound to misquote her "there's no such thing as society" speech now...
I was there too, and I remember no such thing. Universally despised by the public? Utter rubbish.
If she was so despised why everyone how did she win three elections? And how come polls, even recently, show her as being popular?
Her 3 election victories would suggest otherwise...
My ingrown toenail is back again - how is THAT to do with Thatcher???
Perhaps you can back up that.
I'll back my assertion up that she was popular, you can back up that she was despised. We'll see who seems more right.
Almost every poll there, has her in the top 5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Prime_Ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom
Comres poll
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2735/thatcher_s_the_best_new_poll_names_ex_tory_leader_as_greatest_prime_minister
In fact, all of the pollsters regularly have her in the top 5 at the least. Along with the 3 election victories.
So, over to you...
Not enough bandwidth to list them all.
We had growth for a few years sandwiched by two big recessions.
Growth was higher under MacMillan and Wilson in the sixties.
go on, give us a small list and tell us how those policies got reversed under later governments...
Which planet does this refer to?
I recall at the time being in despair at how popular she was.
Somethings are irreversible.
You moan about how much money new Labour spent now, to reverse some of Thatcher's changes would have involved spending huge amounts more.
The Ed Balls magic money tree could surely have afforded it? - what about using the Bankers Bonus tax yet again?
Are you seriously going to try and suggest that she isn't deeply unpopular with huge swathes of people.
I'd say start by counting the knives stuck in her back by her very own party and supporters.