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Old 09-04-2010, 08:09 AM #1
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Default New Labour's Betrayal of British Workers

New Labour's betrayal of British Workers:
Nearly every one of 1.67m jobs created since 1997 has gone to a foreigner.


"Net inward migration to the UK, the difference
between the number of people arriving and leaving,
is up threefold since Labour came to power.
In 1997, it stood at 48,000. By 2004,
fuelled by a surge in new arrivals from Eastern Europe,
it reached an all-time record 244,000,
and in 2007 it was 237,000.
The following year it did begin to fall,
as Britain headed into a deep recession,
but the total still stood at 163,000."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/elec...#ixzz0kaTxoAoh







Two Papers from yesterday.



New Labour has Failed the UK
Wise Scotland Kicked them out
Now it is England's Turn to Kick that No Good New Labour Out.


It Is Time For Change.
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If you want to see a real betrayal of British workers just look back to the 1980's and 90's.......
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If you want to see a real betrayal of British workers just look back to the 1980's and 90's.......
Yup - Think of Thatcher starving the coal miners' families into submission and effectively closing the deep mining industry in the UK
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Yup - Think of Thatcher starving the coal miners' families into submission and effectively closing the deep mining industry in the UK
Thatcher didnt starve anyone, the miners went on strike because they didnt want to see their industry slimmed down to be competitive.

She didnt close any mines, due to the number of strikes in the UK industry other industries started buying in cheaper, though inferior in quality, stocks of coal from abroad. No market = no requirement for UK coal means no need for a labour force in the coal mining industry.
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Thatcher didnt starve anyone, the miners went on strike because they didnt want to see their industry slimmed down to be competitive.

She didnt close any mines, due to the number of strikes in the UK industry other industries started buying in cheaper, though inferior in quality, stocks of coal from abroad. No market = no requirement for UK coal means no need for a labour force in the coal mining industry.
Another point of disagreement Shas - Thatcher vs Scragill became a battle of wills. In my area we have the highest quality of coal deep-mined and there is a deep seam that runs under the Forth. Regretrully, Thatcher's battle with Scargill resulted in the mines becoming flooded so it became unecomonic to restart working them and the pitheads are now housing estates. Fife used to get trains to run the crapola you're talking about from Central Scotland to fire it's slag burning power stations.
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Another point of disagreement Shas - Thatcher vs Scragill became a battle of wills. In my area we have the highest quality of coal deep-mined and there is a deep seam that runs under the Forth. Regretrully, Thatcher's battle with Scargill resulted in the mines becoming flooded so it became unecomonic to restart working them and the pitheads are now housing estates. Fife used to get trains to run the crapola you're talking about from Central Scotland to fire it's slag burning power stations.
Of course it became a battle of wills, but the points you make dont disagree with my comments in fact they support them. Thatcher didnt close any mines, it was the economics of reopening them that actually destroyed the mining industry, to save a few hundred jobs Scargill brought the industry down, costing thousands of jobs. It was the same in the area where I was raised.
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If you want to see a real betrayal of British workers just look back to the 1980's and 90's.......
You mean when the Tories paved the way for everyone to be able to own their own home (Right to Buy), introduced the Assisted Places scheme to help children from poor families to be privately educated free of charge, curbed the out of control powers of unions who were holding the country to ransom, protected our borders from illegal immigrants, and reigned in the worse excesses of the Welfare State, now seen effectively as a means of income from cradle to grave for increasing numbers of wasters and scroungers? I know who I'd rather see in power and it isn't the bunch of self serving, incompetent, corrupt and greedy New Labour lot. For a party who are supposed to represent the working classes of this country, theirs has been the worst betrayal of all.
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You mean when the Tories paved the way for everyone to be able to own their own home (Right to Buy), introduced the Assisted Places scheme to help children from poor families to be privately educated free of charge, curbed the out of control powers of unions who were holding the country to ransom, protected our borders from illegal immigrants, and reigned in the worse excesses of the Welfare State, now seen effectively as a means of income from cradle to grave for increasing numbers of wasters and scroungers? I know who I'd rather see in power and it isn't the bunch of self serving, incompetent, corrupt and greedy New Labour lot. For a party who are supposed to represent the working classes of this country, theirs has been the worst betrayal of all.
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Don't you mean bang on right "wing". That's what you will get and all the consequences of the past Tory incompetence.......
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Don't you mean bang on right "wing". That's what you will get and all the consequences of the past Tory incompetence.......

You talk such wrong stuff
As Corrupt New Labour is Neo Conservative now
so all this right or left wing has gone now.



You keep going on about the Past
but that does not matter now
New Labour have Failed over 13 Years
Utter Fact.
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As an Englishman and admirer of Margaret Thatcher, moving to the heartlands of the coal mining communities in the valleys of Wales I expected to find bitter, angry and people still wallowing over the pit closures and spitting in my direction the moment they heard my accent.

Yet most Welsh people I have spoken with, and to my surprise, seem to be glad the pits are gone and have moved on. As they've told me men who worked down pits had to do so in darkness for long hours, their lives always at risk and then suffering ill health very early on and dying prematurely. Not much of a life is it? I accept that there is a strong bond amongst mining communities and I have learned more about the spirit of miners and how pit closures effected communities. I do sympathise with that.

My opinion is that Scargill and the Unions were acting like a fiefdom bullying its members and more or less starting a civil war during the 1984-85 strike. Thatcher had to take on Scargill because for the past decade or so the Unions were holding the country to ransom which had grave consequences on the economy.
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Yes Thatcher, infact ,did the Ground Work for Warmonger Blair.
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