Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the Screws

PMKeates said:
I had milk at nursery in 1990. I remember because I hated it.
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Only when it was warm..

PermaBanned said:
I had to pay for milk in nursery as i remember it...
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Really? I don't think we did, I never took money to primary school.

Wicksta said:
My son is at nursery now, he is lactose intolerant so doesn't have milk but I'll tell him to blame Thatcher for that.
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Be a step in the right direction. :p
 
Biohazard said:
I'm 27, I was a child but there are two things I can remember towards the end.

Milk being removed from class in the morning.

Repeated protests and marches.

As a kid I presumed the two to be linked, just goes to show how not far off I was after all ;)
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You should get a job as Cameron's spin doctor.

Anyone who convinces the masses on that one should have no problem sweeping phone hacking under the carpet.
 
Biohazard said:
I must have been. :eek:

I must have asked the question then as to why it didn't continue, because I can remember the reply. I think I was 5 or 6 mind you.
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Indeed you must. Responsibility for removal of free milk in schools:

Edward Short (Labour) removed milk for 11 - 18 year olds (1968)
Margret Thatcher (Conservative) removed milk for 7 - 11 year olds (1971)
Shirley Williams (Labour, now Lib Dem) removed milk for 5 - 7 year olds (1979)
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It certainly didn't happen in your school days (or in mine). Now, some schools may have continued to fund it themselves, and decided to stop at a later date, but that can't be blamed on Thatcher.
 
biohazard, you forgot to mention the pits being closed in Glasgow, the poll tax riots in Inverness and the Belgrano being sunk in the Firth of Forth. Damn Thatcher!
 
Dolph said:
Indeed you must. Responsibility for removal of free milk in schools:



It certainly didn't happen in your school days (or in mine). Now, some schools may have continued to fund it themselves, and decided to stop at a later date, but that can't be blamed on Thatcher.
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So why did thatcher apparently admit it to being a political mistake in her autobiography I was led to beleive? It certainly haunted her if it had nothing to do with her.

I can't say I've ever found time to read it myself mind.. which is a bit shocking I suppose.
 
Biohazard said:
So why did thatcher apparently admit it to being a political mistake in her autobiography I was led to beleive? It certainly haunted her if it had nothing to do with her.

I can't say I've ever found time to read it myself mind.. which is a bit shocking I suppose.
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Thatcher did do part of it, she was responsible for removal of milk from 7-11 year olds in 1971, and did regret it, both because she actually opposed it (but didn't fight hard enough) but also because it did political damage to her, even though Labour did more milk removing...
 
Wicksta said:
You're 24 and you remember the Thatcher era?
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What sort of hippie arrogance is this? You have to have been alive at the time to truly appreciate the Beatles? History is history. Get over yourself and yes, accept that a young'un might actually know a thing or two about the past.

And that it is the decades of total absence of a viable left wing that is destroying this country, and leading to tyrannous dogs like Cameron to sweep their right wing agendas under the carpet.
 
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BunnyKillBot said:
What sort of hippie arrogance is this? You have to have been alive at the time to truly appreciate the Beatles? History is history. Get over yourself and yes, accept that a young'un might actually know a thing or two about the past.

Like how it was our parental generation, raised by the post war depression generation, that were like 'Yeah make babies and consume all the resources, screw the world!'
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It isn't arrogance, more the suggestion that a great many people have been brainwashed and misled about what actually occurred during those years, especially in the North. Biohazard provided a perfect example.
 
Dolph said:
Thatcher did do part of it, she was responsible for removal of milk from 7-11 year olds in 1971, and did regret it, both because she actually opposed it (but didn't fight hard enough) but also because it did political damage to her, even though Labour did more milk removing...
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Hmm makes a bit more sense now thanks, thinking about it a bit more it has a little bit of resonance with this thread in some ways if you think about it. She was in power, and had been "stealing" milk at some point in that past as had Labour, in and around her also. She just happened to be in office at the time, and had stole the milk at one point... just not the latest milk which was Callaghan. But, they weren't in power so... Maggy was the then current, admittadly more historic, milk snatcher. I suppose if she felt so dismayed at her first mistake, she could have corrected when she had the chance...

Oh wait, Labour get the blame here don't they? What did happen to all that North sea oil revenue.. ;) :p

I like that last part of your sentence for some strange reason. More milk removing, brilliant. :)
 
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Dolph said:
Yeah! Damn government continuing their plan to provide better services to NHS users rather than continuing to run it for the benefit of the staff rather than halting everything over a scandal that occurred during Labour's time in office and that Labour failed to investigate...
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yeah im sure you will think its better when you still pay the same amount of tax and NI and have to take out insurance for medical treatment, because that is what the tories want, privatise the NHS
 
Dolph said:
Yeah! Damn government continuing their plan to provide better services to NHS users rather than continuing to run it for the benefit of the staff rather than halting everything over a scandal that occurred during Labour's time in office and that Labour failed to investigate...
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History suggests privatisation doesn't benefit the end user.
 
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