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You obviously mean it was down to your parents surely? It's their responsibility to make sure you are well fed etc. I would be questioning how irresponsible your parents were if I were you.
Baroness Thatcher has died.
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You obviously mean it was down to your parents surely? It's their responsibility to make sure you are well fed etc. I would be questioning how irresponsible your parents were if I were you.
Feel free to expand on your single smiley response. I took your post seriously at first and then someone posted a laughing response so i wasnt sure.
If it was serious then I think you need to look at your parents actions a little.
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I lost my faith in humanity years ago. Honestly.
It's quite liberating and you feel much happiper
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It's obvious both of you have no clue of what he is on about... oh dear
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I doubt that is true on here in the main, I'm willing to bet most of the negative comments made on here are by people that were either not even born or were very young kids so didn't experience her leadership first hand.
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Not a fan.
Really.....?
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I think the three day week was actually Ted Heath in 1973/4 almost a decade earlier during another miners dispute.
I was a piece worker at the time, turning out cam blanks on a lathe, so we just upped the work rate and earned nearly as much in three days as we did in five.
I was a piece worker at the time, turning out cam blanks on a lathe, so we just upped the work rate and earned nearly as much in three days as we did in five.
My grandfather was a miner, and I was bought up in a Labour household.
My father laments the things the Conservative Government did but to be fair I was only a child at the time. We almost lost our home. Manufacturing/heavy industry went on to 3 day weeks in our area too. Unemployment went through the roof. My parents had years of heartache and struggle through no fault of their own.
Obviously I care about my parents, so my view point will be biased as the thought of anything or anyone hurting or upsetting them makes me mad. As such, I am not the best person to really give an objective point of view, especially as I still really don't know half of the story. I do know that we didn't have a lot growing up, and whatever we did have was the result of hard work and dedication. Not only that but responsible parenting. My parents managed to keep their house and weather the storm, but only because they put their kids and the family home over their own personal desires. So it didn't turn out all bad, but there was upset and heartache along the way. As there is right now, I would imagine, with many people lamenting the decisions of the outgoing Labour Government. As with many things, I suspect it is a case of six of one, and half a dozen of the other (plus some swings and roundabouts for good measure).
What I will say though, is that an old lady has died. I cannot take any pleasure in someones death, even if they were partly responsible for the problems my own family faced.
What little I do know about Baroness Thatcher is that she was a conviction politician, and I can admire her for that. By comparison, it would appear that she puts to shame most politicians of all the parties today.
RIP, and my thoughts go out to her family.
Cheers
Buff
(PS I am from the midlands, not oop norrf or daaan saaaf - perhaps that's why my view is more middle of the road??)
Pretty much echoes my position. There's very little love for her from my parents, who also suffered a lot of financial hardship during that time. We live in the south east too, just to refute the idea that opinions on Thatcher depend on region.
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I hated her policies, not the person.
Why? - deregulation of our financial sector & furthering neoliberal economic policies which further expanded the poverty gap - with the added problem of selling off our council housing stock (all of which we are paying for now).
Short term gain for long term pain.
Oh I agree, but I don't think you need to experience something first hard to disagree with it either.
I'm not experiencing the current changes to our benefit system at all (as I don't claim anything) - but I'm strongly against many of the changes to them.
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Nope, not in school but can and do read. I still dont understand if your comment was serious or a joke though.
Soldato
I wonder what Arthur Scargill thinks of this.
Soldato
Of course, are you saying it isn't the parents responsibility to feed your own children and it is the job of the state? Really ?
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Dont be ridiculous. It was even discussed in posts prior to his. I know exactly what he is talking about, but the idea that its her fault he had a calcium deficiency is laughable and so much so that i questioned the seriousness of his post.
It is not my parents responsibility to feed my children, no.
Horrible horrible woman that embodied the uncaring, unemphatic, greedy un-evolved nature of hard-core tories.
That said she was still a human-being (just), so my thoughts and sympathy must go out to her family during this difficult and upsetting time.
Don
Now you're just trolling. You know what he meant.
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