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Thatcher planned the confrontation with unions. It’s all just a google search away. In Germany workers are given seats on the board, and unions play a role in how companies progress. If unions are bad things, why is Germany’s industrial policy so successful? Theresa May called for British companies...

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Leaving the Falklands undefended was a costly and stupid mistake. I was against the Iraq War too. Having a sovereign wealth fund is a matter of if setting money aside rather than spending it all as Thatcher did. The unions saw more pits close in the decades before Thatcher than were closed by her. ...

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What did the government save by cutting defences, compared to what the government spent to liberate them and continue to defend than? It was a Thatcher disaster, just like all the money wasted fighting unions, bashing northerners, and ******* away our oil money. Norway have a massive sovereign weal...

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Nothing is given away. It’s just cheaper for most people to pay for services via their taxes than pay at point if use. The Tories give their supporters lower taxes because the very rich are net contributors, and generally happy to pay for private services anyway. What makes more economic sense for ...

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The fact the Tories promised to get rid of the deficit by 2015 and failed should say all we need to know. They gave away the savings to their mates in finance, via tax breaks. How else could Labour campaign on giving out loads of handouts based on reversing those tax giveaways? Labour always campai...

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I don’t think Thatcher set out to start it. I think the incompetence of her government in denuding the defence of the islands gave the Argentinians the opportunity to capture them. The Falkland Islands were woefully defended, and as a result of government cuts, which went toward tax breaks for the ...

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I’m not sure what you think was achieved by austerity. Osborne grew our debt by more than every Labour government in history. There’s no way of spinning that to “getting the nation’s finances in order.” At the same time he made massive cuts to our social infrastructure, leading to a rise in crime, ...

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Sadly Andrew, when the 'free press' are owned by folk who gain most from corrupt tories, they ensure the stories are written to dupe the masses accordingly. The masses lag behind reality, as you would expect, given the volume of the propaganda. Similarly, their abuse of Nicola Sturgeon, who dares t...

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She crushed the unions. There was no need to do this. As per closing mines, she should have worked with unions. Read my link and you’ll see the defence of the Falkland Islands was brought up by the head of the navy in a letter to the PM, with him saying the signal we’d send to Argentina is we aren’...

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Militant unions? Why didn’t you reply to my other post that dealt with that subject? The post in which I pointed out that she wrecked the economy and lives of many people and places by killing their jobs and offering them nothing to replace it? You blame the unions, who were looking out for their m...

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I’ve already said Blair followed Thatcher’s Neo Liberalism. Coal mines were already privatised before Blair was PM, so I don’t see how he “ closed more than Thatcher” I’ve said it was a dying industry. My argument is over how that industry should have been managed as it declined. The Tories did not...

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What Thatcher did in the north was ideological. A wise and good government could have achieved the same results of managing the decline of coal, and industry by having a plan of replacing them, but Thatcher left it all to the free market. If you walk into a town dependent on a particular industry a...

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The Argentinians didn’t expect Britain to attempt retaking the islands. Why else would they also invade South Georgia? A place Argentina never claimed, and beyond the range of their airforce to defend. Us winning was no foregone conclusion. It wasn’t a simple task at all, with the success hinging o...

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Always makes me laugh when any northerner supports the tories, but particularly Thatcher. You do know she ****** the north up the arse, don't you? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/14/margaret-thatcher-loved-hated-economic Well balanced article here, showing that the North was neglected...

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You more or less have it! If Argentina had been really serious, there is no way British forces could have retaken a wee island, so far from home. Just had to make it look good. You're really bored tonight aren't you? The Argies were ill-equipped and ill prepared to firstly invade Argentina and seco...

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Thatcher’s government weakened the Falklands enough to embolden the Argentine government to attack. I don’t think she did this purposely, as taking the islands back was by no means a guarantied thing, but it remains her failure. Turning the police on the miners showed a willingness to employ violen...

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One of the biggest fishermen on here trying to protest his innocence when accused of fishing

Thou doth protest too much

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:01 pm
Thatcherwoman engineered the Falklands, to avoid election defeat like no other.

Wait, what?

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:29 pm
Nah! They were just older than him, so he only wanted those who would not answer back and cling on to his every word.

Fibber

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Blair was the leader and had the love-in with GWB to facilitate his post parliamentary position in the USA. Campbell was his spin doctor who spun whatever he was given and very successfully. To blame Campbell for Americas hatred of anything that isn’t to America's advantage is a bit far fetched. He...

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ksrclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:05 pm
I'm in the "all for it" camp on this one, so long as it means the big 6, or 9, clear off and leave the rest of the clubs to return to proper football on an even playing field. Can't come soon enough for me.

When was the last time it was an even playing field?

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Wile E Coyote wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:01 pm
"These clubs would even be able to veto a new owner taking over a rival club."

can someone please explain why they would have this capability .

To maintain the status quo in their favour quite simply.

It's wrong that they'd be allowed that power

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fzr162 wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 4:05 pm
Thatcher orderd the sinking of the General Belgrano when it was outside the exclusion zone steaming away from the Falklands. If this was not an act of aggression then I don't know what is.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... 5/uk.world

Awkward

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claptrappers_union wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:31 pm
Why restructure the league from 20 to 18. I don’t understand that bit?

2 games less per club, plus travelling means the clubs in Europe get more rest time apparently.

This completely ignores their world tours in the summer and friendlies during the international breaks..

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Didn't City hit league 1

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An end to parachute payments and clubs to hold money in the bank incase of relegation?
Interesting.

So I assume as and when West ham get relegated again, for example, another club takes their place in the group of 9?

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... s-less-war

Seems the Guardian aren't expecting much from him ref foreign policy

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PeterWilton wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:01 pm
Probably not, but I'm far more likely to get the kind of interventions I want under a Biden Presidency than any Republican one.

Based on?

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PeterWilton wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:11 pm
I support some intervention and not others. Don't you?

For example, I support intervention on humanitarian reasons (like how we should have intervened in Rwanda) but not economic reasons like Afghanistan and Iraq.

Based on previous form the US will do exactly what you suggest.... Oh wait

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daveisaclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 1:41 pm
If you don't know his foreign policy you'd probably be better off not discussing it.

I've just read it.
It's a bit vague, he supports some intervention and not others.

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A "both sides" argument but one of the sides is the Taliban. Wow. This isn't about the Taliban though is it? Trump is withdrawing troops, something that goes against the psyche of the Americans who seem to enjoy sending their soldiers abroad regardless of the mess it seems to cause more often than ...

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So do you vote for the side that's backed by a group that keep going to war in predominantly Muslim countries and making a massive mess of it or for the side that what's to stop going to war in predominantly Muslim countries...

Tough choice there.

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I've posted this in the magic money tree thread.

It's shocking for football itself.

I can't understand what exactly West ham have done to qualify for this group, they get relegated every so often and aren't exactly renowned for winning trophies.

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I'm surprised they didn't include Leeds, maybe at the end of the season if they avoid relegation.

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Standard definition of warmonger.. "" a person who encourages or promotes aggression towards other countries or groups"" You'd seriously contend that neither Trump or Thatcher did this? If so you're turning into Ringo. Keep it real Rowls. 😂 Are you referring to the miners who'd been striking for ov...

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JohnMac wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:23 am
Always found him to be a passionate Claret and never covers any other topics during match day conversations.

Any of us at a football match could be sat near a drug pusher, thief, child abuser et al.

I know for a fact that many thieves and drug pushers attend football games

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Utd need the next Roy Keane before they start signing more defenders.
They're not getting enough protection and lacking a leader because Maguire ain't a leader.

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What has the Anglo-French stitch up of the Middle East after the dissolution of the Ottoman empire post 1918 got to do with Alistair Campbell not to mention the carve up of Palestine after the second world war? Those have nothing to do with him, as you well know. However to claim that there are wor...

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4. The discarding of some stalwarts, just because they were older. They didn't go because they were older, that's garbage. They went because they downed tools when Coyle dumped them for Bolton and they behaved poorly under Laws. Player power was the issue and Howe wasn't having it so shipped them o...

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£180k a week?

He's been shockingly bad this season, they should consider asking him for some of that money back

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RammyClaret61 wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:28 am
There are a lot more odious Clarets on this forum than Campbell.

Pretty sure that no one on here has contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the displacement of millions and the destabilising of an entire region.

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Can't see why anyone would have an issue with Rashford getting an mbe

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 10, 2020 12:45 pm
Would the queen even have a clue who the nominees are?

She learns a little about each nominee prior to giving them their award.

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Annoying at first and then I think petrol from Leeds and a programme is £15, so paying the extra breaks even so will no doubt stump up. For anyone travelling longer distances it’s a reasonable price to watch games. Compared to the hundred odd quid it would cost me and the 6-7 hours of driving...its...

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Just read it now. Interesting that it only highlights the leave sides antics with CA and not what remain/Labour did. Modern times require updates to all sorts of laws and regulations, however as per usual politicians/civil servants are slow to adapt and catch up. I doubt much will change when someon...

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I don't miss regularly drinking booze, I can go 6mths to a year without drinking nowadays and it's fine with me.

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Kevin?

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Hey, your side fixated on their claim that CA did something to skew the result of the referendum, that drum was battered for a good while in an effort to get the result turned over.

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That's gonna be awkward for a few on here who were frothing at the mouth whilst adamantly declaring that the vote was rigged etc.

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