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Rhetorical question I assume?

.... and again....

The left never do, their modus operandi is simply to discredit everyone to the right of them, instead of providing a positive spin on their own beliefs and policies.... same old same old.

Labour had been in power for nearly three years before he sold out.........

Ha.... it contradicts your ramblings....never mind.

ma·jor·i·ty** /məˈjôrətē/ Noun The greater number: "in the majority of cases"; "a majority decision". The number by which votes for one candidate in an election are more than those for all other

No need, I stand firm where I am thanks. Do you have a suggestion then?

A voting majority Mr Pedant......are you being deliberately obtuse?

Let's add a bit of a correction here ,the sequence runs from the 2 Labour wins before Thatcher got in, this is % of the vote, the only voices that count of course: 37% - Labour 39% - Labour 44% - Con 43% - Con 42% - Con 42% - Con 43% - Labour 40% - Labour 35% - Labour 36% - Con...

Nor were the Conservatives, who are trying to balance the books on the back of Labour's failed efforts.

Not according to the effin polls on this effin board.

Holds as much water as the vitriolic garbage I have been reading on here for the last few days.......patronising fool.

Miners strike finished in 1985, she was still in power for another 5 years after that. Hunger strikers were given concessions. Thatcher did more good than bad....simple.

You guys need to read this article about Blair and the concept of Performancism ( Its a weighty read ),.... but to give it context, this is a 'Left Wing' orientated journal. http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=5719

There is still manufacturing in Western Europe of course, but only a fraction of what was here 30 years ago, and the migration east is ongoing. But the point still stands, we cannot compete on costs.

Instead you are paying tax to support all those ex presidents like Bush et al .... Each ex president gets 200k pension plus expenses and protection to the tune if another 1.5 million........ for life.

Yes of course, Utopia, but sadly we cannot compete on any level with unit manufacturing costs from the Far East, so there is no appetite to throw money around to up skill the available workforce, only to be undercut at every turn, and never get any meaningful contracts. We need to focus on what...

There seem to be no shortage of jobs for the Eastern Europeans that find their way to jolly old Britain.

Not forgetting that there was no ballot for a strike, he had tried three times before to get a national strike, the membership voted NO, the forth time he took those who wanted to out on strike without a ballot, hence the flying pickets etc,......so it was illegal, what did you expect the...

Nicely tailored time slot there, I assume by modern you mean only between 1979 and 1990? ...and rescuing a 56 year old officer from the grip of out of control convicts, is hardly using the army against the people, is it matey?