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Unemployment in the UK has honoured the memory of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership today by rising to 2.56 million.
The touching tribute came as 20,000 under 25-year-olds also decided to pay their respects to the former prime minister by adding their names to the jobseekers’ register in the last three months.
Manufacturing and construction were also keen to honour the legacy of Britain’s first female prime minister by drastically falling to their lowest level in several years.
And inflation joined in the moving tributes to Lady Thatcher by rising to a nine-month high.
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Related articles by Tom Pride:
Thatcher Funeral – Big Ben To Be Silenced After Being Accused Of Going Ding Dong
Thatcher funeral guest Bernard Ingham accuses Hillsborough relatives of being ‘contemptible’
Opinion poll – more bad news for fans of Thatcher
Miners agree to be beaten up today in honour of Margaret Thatcher
Witches outraged at being compared to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher
UK SINGLES CHART UPDATE – ‘Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead’ in at nr 10
Criticism as MPs mass debate over Lady Thatcher
Parliament to be privatised in Thatcher’s memory
Osborne claims Thatcher “over the worst” and well on way to “full recovery”
Fury as Lady Thatcher is accused of trying to bury bad economic news by dying
Government scraps plans for society to pay for Thatcher funeral after realising it doesn’t exist
Thatcher funeral guest Bernard Ingham accuses Hillsborough relatives of being ‘contemptible’
Right-wing press ‘accuse’ anti-Thatcher activist of having a boob job! (not satire)
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Tom… you are so clever.
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@TOM i blame the govt for this,, they keep on banging on about how generous the benefits system is that working ppl have decided to quit work and life their life on the dole..in their mansions and gold plated limousines…its IDS fault he just encourages them…
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But you can console yourself with the fact that petrol is down by 2p a litre. NOT.
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at this rate we’ll be using paint thinners in our mopeds
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Isn’t it nice when those who could, those who should have corrected the mistakes they say Thatcher did (and paid for by being voted out after three mandates as PM decades ago) can continue hide their incompetence under perpetual blame for everything wrong today directed at Thatcher who ceased to be in office 23 years ago!
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@inavukic we have privatisation mania if it screwed down they will flog it off..something the mad witch started…are you paying attention?
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I’m not even sure whether I can tell satire from reality any more after this week *weary sigh*
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Of course I’m paying attention. I have always been against privatisation. If she was a madf witch so are millions that voted for her, but then so are those that came after her who failed to reverse the madness or at least arrest it still and find an alternative way of filling the public purse as it began shrinking etc. Privatisaon, many say has sparked competition in business etc towards a greater good for the consumer – but something went terribly wrong in this during 1990’s onwards (when Thatcher) was not there any more and so, we have no opportunity in knowing what she would have done as PM in this
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Oh dear it’s late. and Mr Pride you make my day as always, please may I leave this link, sent to me by my lovely son http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22154888
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inavukic…from reading your posts….you have answered your own questions…but to remind you, she set the framework built the foundations of what is happening now…she destroyed the very fabric of british culture…and put nothing in it’s place..except a market free for-all that is still going on to-day…she sucked our country dry…and has left millions hi and dry….
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before i go a ps inavukic…she imho tried to emulate churchill, or dare i say it, attlee, so she would be remembered as a great leader….but she was deluded…she was not boudica….but more akin to a roman emperor…who subjugated..”her people”….rather than build consencous…..with the populous….she was a domanator…a ruler…not a leader…..british politics has continued in this vein ever since….
we know what is good for you…rather than work directly with the people….treaties like agenda 21….show the transfer of power from govt’s to ngo’s for instance…so power is gripped…rather than shared so that the poor ie become those without power and therefore, without any say in democracy…. except a hobson’s choice party voting system that ensures that those with wealth keep and continue to benefit from it and control it…….
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George said it, a tidal wave of guff.
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I know what you’re saying, I hear the same from many in UK/Britain and, of course, since I have no direct experience in living “on the ground of the aftermath” of her domestic policies I can only talk of her effect internationally and on general political agendas or principles. She was PM at a time when “history” says Britain needed a change and she brought it. That change agreed with some and it didn’t with others, but she “ruled” for three mandates – that’s a heck of many years at the top if your work is seen as damaging. I acknowledge the power of her media machinery but I also think that people think for themselves when they vote. When privatisation started in Australia in the eighties it was “sold” as the best thing invented after sliced bread but many knew that once you let the industry etc into private corporate hands things will get nasty for the ordinary person in more ways than one: control + new taxes (since the gov privatised the milking cow) for revenue…we could debate this for a long time, but at the end of the day, modern politics are all about blaming predecessors instead of doing something to tear down the rotten foundations and change things…
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i agree..up to a point
that the electorate…were hamstrung is also one of my points…
which is why we in scotland we had a very effective tactical voting campaign called GROT….get rid of the tories….
it worked…
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sorry inavukic… see my reply go up..
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inavukic having re-read your post i am stating that the political system in britian had caught a terrible virus and was entrenched…as i now see your views are….
there was no way for the ordinary brit to demand change
all of the structures for doing this were destroyed as job 1 of thatcher….
we the people had lost our power to change it…
can i find another way of saying that we were dis empowered…made powerless…ignored…numb…shocked…speechless….et al…et al…et all
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which is exactly what we are trying to do….her death has brought out or up the voice of the people….in unity.. divided we fall, united we stand……….blah blah
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Aw, this was an incredibly good post. Taking the time and actual effort to make a top notch
article… but what can I say… I put things off
a whole lot and never seem to get nearly anything done.
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