She Killed the Labour Dinosaurs ...Now They Walk Again ; Comment [Scot Region]
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TOMORROW is the 30th anniversary of the election to office of Margaret Thatcher, who not only in my opinion saved Britain but, together with Ronald Reagan, ended the Cold War, tore down the Iron Curtain and enabled millions to escape the tyranny of communism.
You have to be over 50 today to remember the horrors of Labour in the 1970s. The Winter of Discontent left the dead unburied while rats roamed the streets of our cities, piled high with uncollected garbage. Union militants stood guard outside our hospitals, deciding which patients could be admitted. We had seen the three-day week, the lights going off in our homes and businesses and trade union militants drive a Conservative government from office.See the full content of this document
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She Killed the Labour Dinosaurs ...Now They Walk Again ; Comment [Scot Region]
Inflation was rampant at 24.2 per cent in 1975 and a pound in 1974 was worth only 49p by 1979, with interest rates at 14 per cent. In Scotland, there were more people i...
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