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Post by pittendrighinsects on Apr 13, 2013 14:54:33 GMT -8
True that Franco killed thousands, but the communists killed many more and it was a war, so pacifists like yourself didn't survive...after the war, he built the economy and infrastructure up, just so that a communist bastard Zapatero would destroy his legacy and the economy...
In his defense, you have killed thousands of innocent butterflies ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2013 3:18:28 GMT -8
I was employed in the coal mining industry for many years before all the mines closed, coal mining is a pretty brutal way to earn a living, you work long hours, just to get down the mine you go into a cage, this is suspended above a 1 mile deep shaft by a rope, you decend at great speed towards the shaft bottom putting your life at risk every day to earn a living, its as hot as hell, although not as hot as where Maggie should be now, its dirty on a scale you could never imagine, smelly, the only thing between you and 1 mile of rock is a steel girder 8 feet high, which can rupture under this intense weight at any time and when they do as you walk underneath them it is one of the most alarming experiences you can have. I went to college for 5 years while working down the mine at the same time to obtain my coal mines official qualification, level 4 education so quite severe, and started doing all this 2 weeks before my 16th birthday. Thatcher called us the enemy within, but these were honest, hard working salt of the earth men, many of whom had fought for their country too ,men who's life and self esteem she totally destroyed, the mines were not closed because they were uneconomical, they were closed because good old Mags had to show our best Adolf Hitler impressionist union leader Arthur Scargill who was boss, the result, hundreds of thousands of decent people caught in the crossfire and suffering greatly. I wont be joining you next week when the good old iron lady is laid to rest in fact I will do a jig of delight and show her all the kindness and courtesy she showed to me and mine all those years ago. hello dunc I left school in 1984, the year of the strike. As a boy then, it didn't matter so much if you passed grades at school as you were almost guaranteed to get a job in the mines. Unless you come from the pit villages and the like, you won't really understand what it was like back then. Our dear maggie sent the metropolitan police up north to deal with the striking miners and let me tell you, they didn't care if you were demonstrating or not, you were getting a batton wrapped around your head, man woman or child!!! My father was a miner and we lived on hand outs from the soup kitchens. the true warriors were the miners wife's that worked everyday unpaid to support thevfamilies. Our dear maggie did not give a ### about the working class and I don't often relish in a persons demise, but on that day I was one of the many thousands that gave a cheer. Where the pit gates were in our villages, there was a string of 18 shops that were thriving, now there is 1 that sells newspapers. I stand here with you on this one dunc, no regrets the old bag has gone. Pete |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2013 8:03:51 GMT -8
Our dear maggie sent the metropolitan police up north to deal with the striking miners and let me tell you, they didn't care if you were demonstrating or not, you were getting a batton wrapped around your head, man woman or child!!!
I was one of those to taste the baton Pete, for the crime of standing still and not doing anything, I still have the scar to remember it by.
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Post by lepidofrance on Jun 30, 2013 8:11:06 GMT -8
Many people idolize Thatcher because it reduces the power of the British trade unions. In doing so, it also ruined the industry in the same country.
In the long term, Thatcher and his fellow broke the neo-Keynesian economics that allowed out of the crisis of 1929 and ensured the growth of industrialized countries for over 30 years. They delivered the world economy to financialization (globalization, financialization) and thereby caused the current crisis even worse than 1929.
Great legacy! Applaud!
And the same admirers of Thatcher are now asking those Greeks, Spaniards, etc.., make efforts to pay more taxes (for the people not for the shipowners and bankers), to accept wage cuts, etc.. when the cause of the crisis are granted billions to keep their banks!
Great legacy! Applaud!
As an admirer of the bloodthirsty fascist dictator Franco, a friend of Hitler, I simply remind him that the Soviets crushed the Franco Legion Azul somewhere near Stalingrad. What I am pleased.
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