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- Nairn0
Why would I hate on Maggie?
I wonder where Britain might be now, if ol' Iron Maggie hadn't so 'ruthlessly' instituted reform to move us beyond our archaic reliance on the old world manufacturing industries.
Britain is currently the 4th most vigorous economy in the world, its financial centre seriously rivalling that of Wall street which has been at the forefront for nearly a hundred years. We have the lowest effective unemployment rates in Europe (even if you take away Blair's number crunching and back to work schemes etc), highest rates of home ownership and most fluid financial and business system going (as anyone who's started their own business should be able to tell you).
Why is it that we have such high immigration - and I don't just mean asylum-seekers - I mean from comparable European countries, if the changes instituted over the past 20 years were so bad?
A thing that annoys me is that the Labour administration of the past 10 years has largely ridden the benefits of change instituted by the previous Tory governments - I'm sure that had they been in power then, Scargill would've been swiftly out the door and a Brown-a-like put in his place, effectively making a new labour/old conservative structure anyway.
What would you have rathered - placation of the 'working classes' in the late 70s and 80s and an underperforming relic of a country - or a small island, punching above its weight and still (ironically) somewhat respected by first-world nations, populated by largely content middle-class consumers?
Besides - political parties be damned - I think the whole 4 year cycle of childish name-calling and back-biting is wasteful and retarded - we should've cybernetically enhanced Maggie and had her as a benign totalitarian dictator for the next 100 years, then we could get back our colonies (I mean you, America) and give those Germans the kicking they've deserved for so long.
I've no idea whether I'm kidding or not.