2007-05-07 00:53:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Turn right at the signpost marked HELL. Sorry...this doesn't answer your question. Basically, I don't know.
2007-05-07 00:58:10 · answer #1 · answered by lou b 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know but let me counter some criticisms that have been made about Margaret Thatcher in the past:
When she said "there is no such thing as society" she actually completed this sentence by saying that there are individuals and there are FAMILIES.
The traditional Conservative point of view is that the individual should look after themselves as much as possible because this places less burden on the state which then means taxes can be kept relatively low.
The Labour Party believe the opposite. New Labour decreased the unemployment rate but only by creating thousands of people public sector jobs, thus increasing the need to raise taxes to cover the cost by direct and indirect methods. Many of these posts are overpaid, absolutely un-necessary, form filling jobs. The people who are lucky enough to already be on the 'property ladder' don't mind too much because they can sell their home on for a fortune more than they paid for it (and a fortune more that it is objectively worth) but other people are not so fortunate.
Margaret Thatcher did something very important for the region where I live- Teesside. She visited then bankrolled the creation of the Teesside Development Corporation which has created many jobs on a site which had previously been deserted and derelict- this has lead to a site of the University of Durham being built, a shopping park and cinema complex,
the river being cleaned up and a major white water rafting and barrage area being created.
In the end, Margaret Thatcher did far more for the particular area where I live than any Labour government ever did. The Labour Party was a hostage to total left-wing dogma until Tony Blair took over.
2007-05-07 04:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by _Picnic 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They could be the gates of a closed down factory, hospital, school, or coal mine.
They could be the gates of Greenham Common or the Trident base at Faslane.
They could be the gates that have closed on communities throughout the industrial heartland of Britain, and despite the best efforts of New Labour will probably never re-open.
But i hope it's the gates to purgatory, because she will never get into heaven and she would enjoy hell too much, too many kindred spirits down there. So i think an eternity spent hoping for forgiveness, along with all the other lost souls would be fine by me.
You may have guessed that i am of an age that suffered under that woman's ideological onslaught on the economy of Britain. I was 18 when she was elected and finally got a proper job aged 26 years, although i suppose if i had got on my bike and looked for work....
2007-05-07 05:53:48 · answer #3 · answered by Biddles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the Margaret Thatcher mansion?
2007-05-07 00:55:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Riddlal this Bat Man - 4.5 million deliberatly kept on dole so to keep down workers wages. This was for 21 years (inc Major). How much did this cost? She and Major still gave tax cuts.
Well £1000 Bn - where did it come from - our hospitals, our schools, our police, etc. Do you remember - schools and hospitals closed - we are still paying now.
The Falklands War - it cost £20 bn and costs £3bn a year now
The councl tax - it cost £20bn to put it in place - has it helped one iota.
2007-05-07 02:43:45 · answer #5 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you find out where they are don't tell anyone as hoards of people will descend on them to deface and vandalise them.
I would be first in the queue.
2007-05-07 01:03:46 · answer #6 · answered by Bum Gravy. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In England ?
2007-05-07 01:30:00 · answer #7 · answered by wombat2u2004 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've no idea obviously somewhere in london
2007-05-09 05:08:36 · answer #8 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋