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Eric wrote:Wouldn't blame her for making mistakes, when on balance she turned the country round.
If that awful woman had really "turned Britain round", you would today be buying a British camera as the best in the world, instead of a Japanese one.
Britain today is an ugly and intimidating place compared with the one in which I grew up, and she was the architect of that change. Wilfully carried out without an ounce of compassion or concern for the communities she destroyed and the people whose lives she blighted forever, describing them as "the enemy within". Great swathes of Britain's industrial heritage were laid waste, some never to recover. Across much of Britain the hatred and loathing remain, undimmed after 30 years.
Martin.
Whilst I have great admiration for the way she handled the situation in the Falklands at the time there is still a question regarding the events before and whether if they had been handled better the whole situation might have been avoided.
I think her handling of the UK industrial situation was as Martin says completely without any form of compassion or concern for the events that woudl follow the 'crushing of the unions'.
Today's situation is partially down to her and the legislation that she brought in which effectively destroyed the British engineering and creative inventiveness with machinery and electronics. It is actually recovering to a degree now but it is long way off where it could be.
For me the jury is out on the degree and amount of damage done but it is considerable some was by her and the rest was self-inflicted by the unions not knowing which battles to fight!
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