Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "Tousi TV"
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Well that's a lot of tired guardian cliches you've recited... but nothing more.
1. The Falklands was a significant conflict in the eyes of all whom mattered. Not acting would have been a national humiliation, and demonstrated that the UK wasn't committed to protecting her territory or people.
By all means call Falklanders worthless to their faces... but you'll need a lot more insurance if you do :P .
2. Overstatement much?. UK Manufacturing had been in decline for twenty years prior to 1979. From Cars to Shipbuilding, most of it was already dead in all but name.
(or does the detail that Labour closed more coal mines, railways & shipyards between 1964 - '70 than Thatcher in twice as much time not fit your narrative? :P )
3. False. Thatcher got the UK the rebate, whilst Bliar gave most of it away for nothing. By 1986 the penny had dropped on the EEC's cronies trying to woo the Labour Party (successfully) to Euro-Federalism, which they'd regret as Thatcher theteafter kickstarted euroskepticism on the center-right, where hitherto there'd been little.
(the founder of UKIP himself [the only reason we finally got an EU Referendum] admitted that one of her speeches started the precursor to said party)
4. Rioting Miners*. That latter aspect is always overlooked. They came looking for a fight (literally, as most were bused in far-left radicals), and got one. The government runs the country, not mob rule.
That; and simce when were Cops not "armed"?.
(even in Victorian times they were armed, albeit with Swords instead of Truncheons)
5. Community Charge*, and technically not a creation of Thatcher's. The same government replaced it with the Council Tax we still use today... so... big deal.
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>yawn<
As predictable a reply, as it's cliche.
Kudos for conceding the point on industry though.
Ironic though that you say she should've gotten us out (no easy feat at the time), yet belittle the UK and its overseas commitments, just as remoaners do.
The Trade Unions' self-victimizing may be convincing, yet the reality was they were far-left luddites trying to ignore the changing reality of the coal industry, which had been on a declining trend since the UK started converting to Oil in 1904, and ceased exporting it in the '30's.
(nobody talks about the vast mountains of coal [mined at the taxpayers expense] that lay unsold in the '50's & '60's for months on end, which had to be flogged off on the cheap)
As for "using armed police"; they'd been used to suppress football riots and other public discontent prior to then. The trade unionists were also violently obstructing Public Property, and hurling bricks / other projectiles at vehicles that tried to go in or out.
(the US Government by contrast has used the Military for such domestic unrest, not Police with truncheons)
And nope; Bliar was Labour's cackhanded attempt to mimic the Tories (out of desperation after loosing for nearly two decades) and US style plastic faced politics, yet with all the same mistakes and economic failure as all prior Labour governments.
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