In terms of the fabled “big picture”, Thatcher’s decision to deregulate the city lead directly to the financial melt down in western economies (something I believe one of her cabinet secretaries said).

But…if we must talk about selling things off……

What about :

Our Post Office

Our Gas

Our Electricity

Our Water

Our Rail

Need I go on ?

Great decisions ……. not…….

Just watch the Autumn statement for Osborne to announce another “fire” sale of national assets, the Tories have sold/gifted practically everything they possibly can, dedicated to buying in as much as possible in preference to British or British based companies, what happens when Osborne runs out of things to sell? does someone then turn up and repossess the country?

As per thread starter, a little Corbyn bashing appeared to be the sole reason for the thread, in that case how about “call me Dave” trying to rearrange who, how and in what order politicos would lay wreaths, giving himself prominent single position and first post behind The Queen, the man’s arrogance and self promotion knows no bounds.

Paul

We lost our big daft Maine Coon some 4 years ago, took him in as a rescue cat and he made it to 20 years old and still looked and acted fighting fit, suddenly didn’t want to know about food, grooming or indeed anything, to the vets, were they discovered a large, aggressive, inoperable tumour, they told us that from the location of the tumour it had probably been of little problem, until it intruded on vital organs, there was simply no choice in the decision and we still feel guilty that we were unable to help him.

Like yourself we were 69 and 70 years old respectively and decided that we couldn’t take the pain again and of course the real possibility that another cat would out live us, however early this year a local shelter was appealing for people who would take on some of their mature animals rather than just pups or kittens, we went along, fell for and adopted a 6 year old cat, after overcoming the initial problems were she would attack if startled, this little cat is now firmly part of our lives, always comes to meet us if we have been out, thinks knees are superb spots for sleeping, is now confident and trusting of the people around her and we wouldn’t give her up to anyone.

Good luck.

If we are still suffering from anything Moggie…..
Its Thatcher destroying industry, the financial structure, our housing stock, selling all our asserts etc..etc..etc

Agree totally, Thatcher truly started the rot in many ways, certainly turned me away from any Tory inclinations for ever.

Hardly. It is a component of a long term project to preserve an ancient wetland environment. An important part of the whole Fenland ecosystem. The land is long owned by the Wildflife Trust for the area. Of course growing food is important but equally so is the balance between the cultivated and natural environments in rural areas.

Sorry if I jumped before I was bitten, but local to me the Environment Agency proposed ceasing pumping of a very large area of arable farm ground and the conservationists/environmentalist were all celebrating the thought of turning this area into a lake during the winter months and unusable at any time, with apparently not a thought that people live there, work there, fortunately local pressure (not just from farmers) put the blocks on this at least temporarily.

To clarify, this was not a case of few fields becoming wetland, it would have flooded or isolated at least three villages, would have cut off one town for much of the year and destroyed thousands of acres of arable and very productive farmland.

Good that this excavation is taking place, but has anyone looked at the reason for the timing, apparently the “conservationists” are turning the land into a wetlands area, in other words turning farmland to a home from home for birds etc.

Maybe I’m missing something, but surely growing food and providing a living for people, is more important than attracting a few birds to the area.

I have no doubt that this stems from the same weasel thinking from the Environment Agency, who are trying to save money by simply not pumping water from low lying land, a tactic tried where I live, seemingly unaware or simply didn’t care that people would be flooded out of their homes and business’ along with the loss of productive farmland.

I had a similar situation recently.

A friend fractured two vertebrae and was discharged from hospital with twenty-eight days supply of prescription medicine including some very strong pain-killers, or so he thought. After a couple of days of convalescing he discovered that instead of twenty-eight days of pain-killers he had only been given twenty-eight tablets, or about three days worth.

For better or worse, this is becoming common practice, all about budgets, basically the hospital only issue enough medication until you can get to your GP, the charges for said medication land on the GP’s budget rather than the hospital’s.

We will never know how effective the nuclear deterrent was and hopefully we never find out, but I’m fairly certain that the only thing that backed Khrushchev down during the Cuban missile crisis was the real danger that the Cold War was likely to become hot.

The only time that our V bomber force was loaded with nuclear weapons, dispersed and ready to launch.