SPierce
2011-12-31 19:56:15 UTC
For those of you not in the know Margaret Thatcher was the British PM from
1979 to 1990. Yet while she was the most successful British PM in living
history,
That would be Atlee - who created millions of jobs, had double digit1979 to 1990. Yet while she was the most successful British PM in living
history,
growth, expanded free education, created the NHS, expanded the
welfare state,increased social mobility, and provided millions with
social housing. All at a time with the UK was far more in debt than we
are now.
Thatcher on the other hand did only one of these things - expanded
welfare state
create the socialist welfare state. The Germans used the American
tax-payers money to rebuild shipyards and factories with brand new machinery
to create wealth and therefore new jobs. See where Germany is today
compared to Britain. And we British were so dumb as to take away German
used machinery after the war as reparations when the Germans were waiting at
the factory gates to install brand new machines in the same bolt-holes in
the floor.
And they are still cleverer even after the all the British 'free ejacashon'
the Americans paid for.