All these damn rules controlling every aspect of life!

[Matt]

That explains Tony's lips, how do you explain Cherie's?

[Geoffrey]

Make that a mile and a foot - I'm always late :(

[The Natural Philosopher]

Silicone injections.

[Matt]

She ought to sue. Does she know a good lawyer?

[Doctor Drivel]

Jerry, please get attention.

[Doctor Drivel]

...toymakers, Matt.

[:::Jerry::::]

,

So one man operating a CNC lathe or CAM manufacturing (and it's predecessors) plant is not more economic than having ten people doing the same work? You might not like the fact that countries like the Japan were using such methods in the late '70's and thus selling their products cheaper but you can't change the fact that they were.

...and who were trying to tell the management how to manage?...

structure the

By that I take it that you are no more than about 30 years old (and thus have no memory of that winter), or are you saying that all the film that exists of locked grave-yards, rubbish in the streets and various other 'problems' were just film sets used by the right wing media (funny that, the media is always the opposite to what the Government is at the time...)?!

government to

government had

political cost

scented blood.

That is your take on the facts, but if the UK was in such a good state (economically) why did Callaghan lose? I'm not defending most of what Thatcher did, in retrospect much was bad if not vindictive [1] but I do think that the reconstruction of the British manufacturing base (yes I do mean the cutting out of out-dated and uneconomic work practises) was necessary and beneficial to 'UK industry Ltd'.

[1] a lot of the current ills of 'society' can, IMO, be directly linked back to many of Thatcher's values - was it not her who once said that "their is no such thing as society", well there certainly doesn't deem to be one today... :~(

The fact that many other countries are only now waking up to the realities of (far eastern) 'competition' and that they will have to re structure or die is surely proof that the UK has been one or two steps ahead for the past twenty odd years.

close-on 100%

never got back

because that

'Finding jobs', were they real jobs or were they created to keep people off the dole?

[Doctor Drivel]

[Doctor Drivel]

Matt, you made that up.

[Doctor Drivel]

Lord Hall, you made that up.

[:::Jerry::::]

can't

Unless you are going to tell someone what they can import or buy (never mind trying to export) which product do you think people will buy, the one costing 10 GBP or the one costing 30 GBP?

Communism is also dead, in case you hadn't noticed...!

[Doctor Drivel]

What? Have you seen the state of the crap the developers turn out? I would incraese it in building

And they are. By April 2006 all trades are to have a Corgi type of competence. Corgi is working with the government on the plumbing trade.

[Doctor Drivel]

Can you prove a lie please. You can always have Thatcher and mass poverty and destitution again.

[Doctor Drivel]

I would go along with that.

[meow2222]

threy playing it to the max.

Theres no opposition becuase the cons are currently so incompetent they cant even work out what the problem is

NT

[Geoffrey]

Maggie's legacy. Once upon a time not (quite) everything was about profit.

[Doctor Drivel]

Jerry, that winter was few high profile strikes. There was no mass employment or deprivation.

Jerry, that is 100% factual..

Jerry, they were real jobs.

[:::Jerry::::]

was

the legacy of Karl Marks....

[:::Jerry::::]

If the Tories have got it so wrong over the last twenty odd years why is the leadership of the current (new) Labour copying Tory policy and not the pushing the policies of old Labour?....

[Doctor Drivel]

Jerry, you are confused. New Lab doens't want people living on the streets.