Bravo Glenda for your honesty & sincerity. One may not agree with your points of view (I do)...but no one should have any argument as to your right to say it. Kudos to the speaker for setting the record straight. Great video post Nag.
Past tense of wreak is wrought... I'd have expected Glenda, a woman of words, to know better. Thatcher had her faults, but if we take the context of the times, and where her predecessors had failed the country, she was not so bad as she's often painted. And yes, I lived through it, the pre-Thatcher anarchy, where the british "worker's" predilection for strikes and general failure to understand that when you've killed the golden goose, it lays no more golden eggs. Industry in this country was dying because productivity was abysmal. Strikes killed our steel, coal, and auto industries, not Thatcher, Arthur Scargill, at the head of the National Union of Miners, decided to bring the government down, and created almost a civil war. He lost. But in the time that pits stood idle, not earning, not being maintained, where men attempting to keep pumps going were threatened with loss of life, their houses attacked, their wives and children afraid to go outside, well in that time, those pits became flooded and damaged, ansd equipment was sabotaged... At the end, pits that would have stayed open, were closed due to the strike's effects. I have friends and family who were miners, on both sides of the divide. Thatcher didn't close the pits, Scargill and his pals did. Our shipyards became a byword for late delivery. No surprise ship-buyers turned to Japan and other countries. Our steel? same story. I think Thatcher's selling publicly owned industries was a stupid and destructive move, hopelessly short sighted. But if Thatcher hadn't paved the way for strong women in parliament, I doubt that Glenda would be in that house today.
Bravo Glenda for your honesty & sincerity. One may not agree with your points of view (I do)...but no one should have any argument as to your right to say it.
ReplyDeleteKudos to the speaker for setting the record straight.
Great video post Nag.
When I visit London many of the people I chat with are still very bitter about the Thatcher years.
ReplyDeletePast tense of wreak is wrought...
ReplyDeleteI'd have expected Glenda, a woman of words, to know better.
Thatcher had her faults, but if we take the context of the times, and where her predecessors had failed the country, she was not so bad as she's often painted.
And yes, I lived through it, the pre-Thatcher anarchy, where the british "worker's" predilection for strikes and general failure to understand that when you've killed the golden goose, it lays no more golden eggs.
Industry in this country was dying because productivity was abysmal. Strikes killed our steel, coal, and auto industries, not Thatcher, Arthur Scargill, at the head of the National Union of Miners, decided to bring the government down, and created almost a civil war. He lost. But in the time that pits stood idle, not earning, not being maintained, where men attempting to keep pumps going were threatened with loss of life, their houses attacked, their wives and children afraid to go outside, well in that time, those pits became flooded and damaged, ansd equipment was sabotaged... At the end, pits that would have stayed open, were closed due to the strike's effects. I have friends and family who were miners, on both sides of the divide. Thatcher didn't close the pits, Scargill and his pals did. Our shipyards became a byword for late delivery. No surprise ship-buyers turned to Japan and other countries.
Our steel? same story.
I think Thatcher's selling publicly owned industries was a stupid and destructive move, hopelessly short sighted.
But if Thatcher hadn't paved the way for strong women in parliament, I doubt that Glenda would be in that house today.