Working Britain Was Shut Down To Make The Country A Haven For Bankers

The Downfall Of Margaret Thatcher.
The introduction of the community charge for local government sounded the death knell for Thatcherism.
Abolishing the old rates system, the charge, quickly dubbed the Poll Tax, was worked out on a flat rate where the number of people living in a house determined its charge rate.
Middle England was incensed that a man living in a semi would end up paying the same as a millionaire in a huge mansion down the road.
This sparked Thatcher’s downfall.
The charge divided her party and was an electoral liability which led to her resignation.
The Poll Tax was replaced by the Council Tax system.
( Wilfred Soon )

Mrs Thatcher And MPs’ Expenses.
In 1980, Margaret Thatcher was warned there was a risk of a public scandal over MPs’ expenses.
Government Ministers feared abuse of the system was so serious that some MPs should be prosecuted.
The minutes of a Cabinet meeting held on February 14, 1980 say: “There was reason to suspect abuse by MPs, and this gave rise to a risk of scandal. If a serious abuse were uncovered, it might be necessary to prosecute the MP”.
Thatcher and her despicable bunch did nothing.
And for the next 30 years these greedy pigs continued to fleece the taxpayer and kept their snouts deep in the trough.
( Fred O. Wilson )

The Iron Lady Movie.
The film (The Iron Lady) suggests that Thatcher stood up bravely against a male establishment and she was a women’s champion.
Nothing was further from the truth.
Thatcher mobilised every arm of the state against striking miners and coalfield women who were defending their jobs, their children’s futures and their communities.
Anyone watching this film needs to be able to distinguish the facts from the fiction.
If your children cannot find work today, remember what Margaret Thatcher did to smash industry.
( Toni Bennett )

Working Britain was shut down by Margaret Thatcher to make the country a haven for bankers, and look where that got us.
It made some people rich, but it impoverished the nation.
( Rose Winfold )

Margaret Thatcher Treated The Miners Like Traitors.
Men whose ancestors had fired our nation’s industrial power and fought our wars.
“They don’t share our common values”, she said., “They are the enemy within”.
Thatcher destroyed our nationalized industries and the thousands who worked in them, supposedly to liberate the economy.
In 1984 the Conservative government went to war against the enemy within.
Miners, they were called.
The men who dug out coal to keep our lights on and our homes warm.
On March 5, 1984 the miners started a strike to protect their communities from calculated destruction.

Margaret Thatcher went for her ultimate prize, the dismantling of organised labour she felt was stopping her millionaire friends from becoming billionaire friends.
She changed the laws to stifle collective protest, stockpiled fuel, killed the case for coal, and ensured her media pals portrayed the striking miners as violent thugs and the police as knights with shining batons.
A year later, with 11,000 miners arrested, 8,000 charged with civil offences, 200 imprisoned, and ten killed.
She’d finally won.
The miners were history.
As were the proud, hard-working communities they came from.

Sentenced to a life of poverty, benefits and drugs.
How those miners must feel now when they see the treatment handed out to the real enemy within.
The reckless bankers who truly have brought the country to its knees.
Men whose unchecked wealth was part of the prize awarded for crushing the unions a generation ago.
Margaret Thatcher and her Tory chums left entire communities and British manufacturing swinging in the wind.
Their motto is “greed is good” and there’s no such thing as society.

The Tories still look down on the working class.
They see them as expendable labour units.
They regard their fat-cat banker mates as the true wealth-creators, as rulers of the world.
The Tories voted against ending poverty pay when Labour introduced the minimum wage.
David Cameron conveniently chooses to forget it was his party which oversaw the decline of coal-mining and the closure of the pits.

What remains are communities on benefits, still struggling years later, children growing up with no hope and turning to drugs and crime.
They failed to consider, or simply didn’t care about, the legacy of despair that would inevitably follow the decimation of working-class communities.
( Len Firswood )

Holocaust Story And Author Found To Be Fake.
Misha Defonseca, the author of a fake memoir about how she was raised by wolves during the second world war, has been ordered to pay $22.5million back to her publisher.
Defonseca’s extraordinary story was published almost 20 years ago as Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years.
The book describes how, when she was six, the author’s Jewish parents were taken from their home by the Nazis, and how she set off across Belgium, Germany and Poland to find them on foot, living on stolen scraps of food until she was adopted by a pack of wolves.
She also claimed to have shot a Nazi soldier in self-defence.
The story was a huge bestseller, and was made into a film in France, but in 2008, the story was found to be fabricated, and she wasn’t even Jewish.
( Alison Flood, 12.05.2014 )  ..  theguardian.com

Royal Mail.
If you joined the scramble for these shares then sold them on, bragging about your ‘nice little earner’, I hope you’re happy.
And if you still see privatisation as the answer to all our ills, then you, my friend, are ill.
( Brian Reade, 29.03.2014 )

The Social National Party Of Ukraine (Now Called ‘Svoboda’), Is A Fascist Party Styled On Hitler’s Nazis.
In the new Ukrainian government politicians linked to the far-right have taken posts from the deputy prime minister to head of defence.
The Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council is Andriy Parubiy.
He oversees national security for the nation having previously served as security commandant during the anti-government protests in Kiev.
Parubiy was the founder of the Social National Party of Ukraine, a fascist party styled on Hitler’s Nazis, with membership restricted to ethnic Ukrainians.

The Social National Party would go on to become Svoboda, the far-right nationalist party whose leader Oleh Tyahnybok was one of the three most high profile leaders of the Euromaidan protests – negotiating directly with the Yanukovych regime.
Overseeing the armed forces alongside Parubiy as the Deputy Secretary of National Security is Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector – a group of hardline nationalist street-fighters, who previously boasted they were ready for armed struggle to free Ukraine.

Inside Right Sector was an alliance of hardline nationalist groups including Patriot of Ukraine and the paramilitary group UNA-UNSO, who have fought against Russian troops in Chechnya and Moldova.
Their members paraded in balaclavas and wore uniforms bearing far-right insignia, including the wolfsangel.
The initial actions of the interim government have included forcing making Ukrainian the only official language of the nation and making moves to remove a law which forbids “excusing the crimes of fascism”.

The anti-Russian far-right in Ukraine strongly associate themselves with the legacy of Stepan Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
In 2010 Viktor Yushchenko made Bandera a “hero of Ukraine”, despite charges of Nazi collaboration and ethnic cleansing by the controversial figure.
Smaller far-right groups from Scandinavia have confirmed they have been travelling to the region to offer support and learn from the “national revolution”.
( Brian Whelan, 05.03.2014 )  ..  channel4.com