please con you help me, and give a detailed answer please.
2007-12-17 09:09:35 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
i give my sincerest apologies for using the incorrect spelling of the cord can...i have the upmost respect for the word can and believe it to be one of the greatest words in the English language...can you give me a detailed answer now please...
2007-12-17 10:18:22 · update #1
no because you spelt can wrong there is no hope what i will say is f..ked over by Maggie thatcher labour seen as saviours of the working man etc... rich v poor rich won same old same old
2007-12-17 09:21:09 · answer #1 · answered by kevin w 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The economic situation in Britain at the time was dire. Due to union power, people were going on strike because the companies had run out of toilet paper. Foreign investors would not touch us because our unions were too strong.
Enter Thatcher. Her idea was to turn Britain into Europes Hong Kong. Didn't quite work out that way. She also wanted cheeper fuel from abroad. She also wanted to close the pits, although she said at the time that she didn't, the proof of the pudding. Anyway, the cheep foreign fuel ment that the UK didn't have to sink millions into our own coal industry.
The miners were not too keen upon this and the stage was set for a mamoth battle. Think the union equivelent of Stalingrad. Two great giants staking all on a big show down. The miners bought in pickets from other pits to bolster numbers at the striking pits, ensuring that no lorries came or went with coal. Thatcher bourght in the MET riot police. She also siezed the unions funds. Consequently the strikers were not getting any money to stay on strike. End result, Thatcher won.
The result of this was that she broke the power of all of the unions. Nobody would strike after that and she had cart blanch to streamline the Brtitish economy and make it competative. Many say that she threw the baby out with the bath water and that many of the large industries that closed were a result of Thatchers handling of the 80s recession could have been saved.
The end result was the death of British engineering and mining. She turned us into a warehouse, but Europe didn't really need a British gateway, when they could buy direct from abroad. That left us with a strong financial sector, which would, pound for pound, only produce 1/3 the revenue of manufacturing.
As you can see from some of the posts, people still feel very strongly about it.
Luck
2007-12-17 18:33:21 · answer #2 · answered by Alice S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋