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I'm not here to launch some great defence of Tony Blair; he made many mistakes, most namely his
foreign policy.
But let's not draw away from the fact that if you lived in the north, Margaret Thatcher was the
worst woman ever come onto this Earth, let alone the worst PM. Her 12 years of deregulation and
privitisation led to high unemployment, a massive gap between the rich and the poor, and
communities, something supposed to be at the heart of Conservative thinking, wrecked beyond repair.
I understand that many people would argue that I'm just a northerner who's moaning about nothing,
and that if she was not bad, she'd have been voted out.
But let's not forget that in the 79, 83 AND the 87 election, the left got a majority vote, meaning
over half the country opposed her policies that we are still paying for, more than ever, today. |
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Thatcher was a strong leader, but so was Hitler and Stalin. In fact her inhumane economic policies
caused unbelievable hardship to a great amount of families, which is still resonant today.
Thatcher also had a very contraversial foreign policies, with her friendships with General Suharto,
who killled over a million people and Military dictator augustine pinnochet, not to mention the
falklands war.
Her anti Union laws are contrary to democracy, not allowing freedom demonstrate about industrial
disputes.
As to why labour did not reverse this? I cannot imagine why
In fairness, Thatcher started what has caused todays financial crisis, as in increasing home
ownership by deregulating the banks, to allow capitalism to go wild, which turned houses into cash
cows and not homes. |
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Actually, as you well know, Rose, the FPTP system is unfair, she did not win by a majority and the
only reason she did win the plurality vote was because people in marginal constituencies voted for
Conservative MPs, not Thatcher, herself.
And to be a good leader, and to impose such radical change, do you not think she should have
consulted the governed beforehand? Using a referendum, preferrably?
And Labour probably did not change back because, due to Tony Blair, they had new proposals and a new
way of thinking, they were no longer socialist democrats, but the Third Way. "Britain forward, not
back," was a logo used by Tony Blair, was it not? Why undo everything all over again to merely spite
the Conservative party? |
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07 Nov 2008 11:11
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