Also Tagos, I’m a Guardian reader, and if you look further through the ESRC site (remember ESRC is government funded) you will find that even government funded organisations think there is a debt problem: ESRC Society today “Britains face a lifetime of debt”
I have no problem with public sector workers. We need more of them - like on the railroads - as they’ll do a better job.
And I don’t see how personal debt of CAB clients is either relevant (as the comment was about the National Debt) - or the responsibility of the government. No one forces these idiots to use high-interest credit and store cards. And that report is purely a survey of Citizen’s Advice debt clients not the UK.
Oh indeed.
When is a politician lying? When he opens his mouth. :rolleyes:
But I was responding to the question about dancing on her grave: ‘Presumably these are a different set of people than those that voted her in three times, then?’
I’d just like to make it clear that I wasn’t trying to say that only Thatcher was elected by a minority, but that due to our electoral system the winner of almost every General Election for more than a hundred years has been.
I think Thatcher became a victim of her own success. She did make some very hard decisions at the start of her PMship. Some right / some wrong. The problem was that even the right choices she took too far. E.G. the rampant privatisation of transport and energy supply. Yes the old systems were lazy cash sinks, but the current situation where it is shareholders first, OAP popsicles… somewhere down that end, is just as bad. (And yes I know I’m hyperbolluxing for effect here.)
My personal take on British (and to a certain extent most democratic) government for the past 15-20 years, is that it is political *parties * that cause the most damage. I don’t however want to highjack this thread with that rotten carcass.
I remember a trucking company called National Carriers, they should not really have been government owned - we used them, they were Ok, M&S also used them - and they were millions of times larger than us.
Thatch encouraged road transport over the railways, I can see why, but she certainly did not privatize the railways.