What have the Conservative Government ever done for us ?

**Semper_Flexibilis** · 29-10-2009, 15:27

Originally Posted by Taffnp

As you are so interested, I am 49 and as I said earlier, never took much interest in politics until lately. When I was younger I had wads of money, but then who didn't, living with their parents and giving them a few bob. The rest was beer money. As you get older, there is more to think about than beer money, bills to pay, so you begin to look at which party offers the best deal, unless of course you are narrow minded and will follow any part blindly.

Right, so your a year younger than meâ€¦ only difference was I wasn't living with my Mum when I left school.

So, you didn't notice that thing called 'The Winter of Discontent' in 1978/79 then?
Fvck me, you must have been the only person in Britain who didn't!

And you say you can only remember living under a Labour Governmentâ€¦
You seriously telling me you didn't notice Margaret Thatcher coming to power in 1979 but you can remember her taking your milk away in 1971?

OK rip van winkleâ€¦

**CrownImperial** · 29-10-2009, 15:34

Don't know if we've looked at the military aspect yet, but conservative governments have presided over:

Winning the Falklands
Winning The Second World War
Winning South Africa 1901
Winning the Battle of Waterloo
Winning the Battle of Trafalgar
Among the main ones...

Labour's military record is dire. The only thing they've really done is got us fucked in Iraq and Afghanistan.

**KGB_resident** · 29-10-2009, 15:35

Originally Posted by scoobydont

Before Auntie Maggie only three people in our street could afford a car. after Maggie everyone over the age of 19 had their own car.
So I blame all the hold ups on the M25 on the bloody tories.

During Soviet times I haven't a car. During Yeltsin rule I have one, inexpensive Russian made car. Today under Putin our family of 4 have 4 cars made abroad including 3 new Japanese cars.

But it doesn't matter. Putin is a moron.

By the way who realised such a brilliant idea as privatisation of British rails?

**Taffnp** · 29-10-2009, 15:36

yep I remember the winter of discontent, took no interest as I was working all the hours I could and playing soldiers on weekends. I remember Maggie coming to power, parents had the right to buy their council house, which they did. Maggie gave the forces a huge budget which was great for my TA side. So I had work and TA.

Then out of work, but by Monday always had another job.

Maggie was always known as Thatcher the milk snatcher

**Semper_Flexibilis** · 29-10-2009, 15:37

Originally Posted by KGB_resident

Originally Posted by scoobydont

Before Auntie Maggie only three people in our street could afford a car. after Maggie everyone over the age of 19 had their own car.
So I blame all the hold ups on the M25 on the bloody tories.

During Soviet times I haven't a car. During Yeltsin rule I have one, inexpensive Russian made car. Today under Putin our family of 4 have 4 cars made abroad including 3 new Japanese cars.

But it doesn't matter. Putin is a moron.

By the way who realised such a brilliant idea as privatisation of British rails?

I'll happily trade Vlad Putin for Brownâ€¦

**Semper_Flexibilis** · 29-10-2009, 15:40

Originally Posted by Taffnp

Then out of work, but by Monday always had another job.

Should have got yourself a good trade then, shouldn't you!

Always gainfully employed during the 70's, 80's and on to todayâ€¦

**Alsacien** · 29-10-2009, 15:41

Originally Posted by KGB_resident

Originally Posted by scoobydont

Before Auntie Maggie only three people in our street could afford a car. after Maggie everyone over the age of 19 had their own car.
So I blame all the hold ups on the M25 on the bloody tories.

During Soviet times I haven't a car. During Yeltsin rule I have one, inexpensive Russian made car. Today under Putin our family of 4 have 4 cars made abroad including 3 new Japanese cars.

But it doesn't matter. Putin is a moron.

By the way who realised such a brilliant idea as privatisation of British rails?

Privatising both rails was a good idea - if we had just privatised one of them it would have resulted in chaos....

**Semper_Flexibilis** · 29-10-2009, 15:41

THis threads needs some picturesâ€¦

Top PM, we could do with another Thatcher to save the Nation.

**Monty417** · 29-10-2009, 15:43

Originally Posted by Taffnp

yep I remember the winter of discontent, took no interest as I was working all the hours I could and playing soldiers on weekends. I remember Maggie coming to power, parents had the right to buy their council house, which they did. Maggie gave the forces a huge budget which was great for my TA side. So I had work and TA.

Then out of work, but by Monday always had another job.

Maggie was always known as Thatcher the milk snatcher

Better than 'Brown world class Clown'

**Semper_Flexibilis** · 29-10-2009, 15:45

Originally Posted by Monty417

Originally Posted by Taffnp

yep I remember the winter of discontent, took no interest as I was working all the hours I could and playing soldiers on weekends. I remember Maggie coming to power, parents had the right to buy their council house, which they did. Maggie gave the forces a huge budget which was great for my TA side. So I had work and TA.

Then out of work, but by Monday always had another job.

Maggie was always known as Thatcher the milk snatcher

Better than 'Brown world class Clown'

:D

Yep, how things have changedâ€¦

The worlds leaders actively sought out the company and friendship of Margaret Thatcherâ€¦

They now run and hide in the kitchens when they hear the British PM is looking for them.

**Taffnp** · 29-10-2009, 16:01

Originally Posted by Oil_Slick

Originally Posted by Taffnp

Then out of work, but by Monday always had another job.

Should have got yourself a good trade then, shouldn't you!

Always gainfully employed during the 70's, 80's and on to todayâ€¦

I did thats why I was made redundant then back in work on Monday

**Jaeger** · 29-10-2009, 16:12

Originally Posted by rampant

Taking us into the ERM and then crashing back out of it

Time for a little historical perspective here, at the time of entering the Exchange Rate Mechanism which was to be the pre-cursor for entry to the Euro, both opposition parties had been screaming their heads off for months and complaining that the Tories were dithering, indecisive etc, and that it was essential for the UK's future prosperity that we join asap. Well we joined, much against the best instincts of many senior Tories incidentally, and pretty soon it all started to go wrong. I'm no economist but as I recall it had something to do with us pegging the value of Sterling to the Deutchmark. At any rate when it did go wrong we needed the Germans help and they refused. Interest rates had climbed steadily and peaked at 15% (for a few hours only though). We then took ourselves out of the ERM and it is generally accepted that from that point on our economy began to grow strongly. Interest rates plummeted and we began to get seriously rich as a country. Unfortunately for the Tories, they got no credit for this (the Voteless Recovery) and despite the UK finances being in better shape than they had ever been they were booted out at the next election - 1979.
New Labour inherited the best set of economic ciconditions ever bequesthed to an incoming Govt. After keeping to the Tories spending plans for two years Brown then embarked on the longest period of Government spending ever known, billions of pounds were fire-hosed at health, education, welfare and god knows what else. At the end of this binge we are on the bones of our arse, our hospitals are plagued with MRSA and bureaucracy, our schools turn out functioning illiterates and our exam system is a joke. Best of all we have about 2.5 million offically unemployed, (the unofficial is about 5 million, and rising!) 3 million immigrants and the prospect of our population rising to 70 million within 20 years, most of it due to immigration from the Third World.

Thanks Labour, you've been f**king great!

**Taffnp** · 29-10-2009, 16:18

Labour has apparently sold the Dartford crossing. I have no idea who to, probably the French company which owns both severn crossings. I have tried without sucess to find out under what government leadership they were sold.

Oh Labour also sold steelworks to the Indian company Tata, which promptly closed them or laid off thousands o workers.

On the immigration point, I think it's more of an EU directive that each country has to take a set number of refugees.

**Semper_Flexibilis** · 29-10-2009, 16:22

Originally Posted by Taffnp

Labour has apparently sold the Dartford crossing. I have no idea who to, probably the French company which owns both severn crossings. I have tried without sucess to find out under what government leadership they were sold.

Oh Labour also sold steelworks to the Indian company Tata, which promptly closed them or laid off thousands o workers.

On the immigration point, I think it's more of an EU directive that each country has to take a set number of refugees.

Boll0x!

See that big bit of water called the 'English Channel'?

The only way people can cross that is because the Liebour Government has left the fvcking port doors open deliberately!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...r-adviser.html

**Psypher** · 29-10-2009, 16:23

Originally Posted by Jaeger

... it took f**king ages to get a phone line installed and the only phones available were black or white, like it or lump it. You had no choice as to who supplied your gas, electricity, water etc and you paid what was asked and put-up or shut-up. Honestly it was a differnt world, think East Germany with a Queen and you wouldn't be far off, and we all wore flares, platform shoes and and big F**k-Off collars too!

If you had the right connections, bottle green phones were also available.

A minor example of how backward Britain was in the 1970's. As a nipper I used to be awe struck by American TV shows like Rockford Files and Quincy because they had push-button telephones! I had never seen a phone without a rotary dial and it would take another 10 or 15 years before you could get them in Britain.

Another personal experiance, on my first day of full-time employment I was working with a typical 1970's throwback. At the end of the day, he physically threatened me for "working too quickly"! Considering this was my first day and I didn't have a clue what I was doing, I couldn't have been working slower. But, of course, it was showing him up, as I didn't take a two hour lunch break, three half hour breaks during the rest of the day and didn't spend half my time chatting to other people.