Macca wrote:SteveTheShadow wrote:Thatcher began this with right to buy, selling off public assets and destruction of the manufacturing base and the creation of the post industrial society.
Just a slight correction to a factual inaccuracy since the rest of your post is opinion and fair enough. Thatcher did not 'destroy the manufacturing base' of this country, despite what you may have read in the Socialist Worker back in 1987
You haven't a bloody clue Macca.
I was there, I lived in the heart of the South Yorkshire coalfield. South Yorks,/North Notts was a Police state.
I regularly got stopped in my van so the cops could search for any suspected undesirables, I might have been smuggling in the back. One day working near Hatfield Main colliery My mate Phil and I witnessed appalling thuggery with at least two housewives I saw getting batoned in their own back gardens whilst their kids looked on screaming with terror.
It was only because we managed to get into our own vans in time that the gang of baton wielding riot thugs realised we were not miners that we didn't get our own heads kicked in.
when I saw the scenes in Goldthorpe the other year when the people paraded an effigy of Mrs T and celebrated her demise.
I sat on my sofa and cheered with them.
Just the mere act of writing this has started the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach again. 31 years down the line and the feeling comes just as strong. Unhealthy maybe, but there are massive sections of society where I teach who have had generations of worklessness, with little hope for the future. The damage those bastards did will never be repaired. And of course the cuts in welfare will hit those people the hardest, whilst us on the front line in the schools and hospitals will have to try to pick up the pieces.
Somebody’s telling me the latest scandals.
Somebody’s stepping on my plastic sandals. Joe Jackson (1979)
). As a greenhorn I was told accounting is a statement of opinion and bookkeeping a statement of fact, so true! 
