Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

[MaxQue]

To the point on checks and balances I would agree with forward '12 to an extent.

You are both wrong.

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What has that got to do with the price of coal?

I was saying that it was in the Conservative manifesto to alter local government, so the changes at least had a mandate behind them?

So, if Chavez announced he would do controversial things, it would be okay because he announced it?

That's a severe mischaracterization of democracy.

[MaxQue]

I should want to register the fact than she only hastened the collapse of UK industry and mining. She did it in a pretty brutal and heartless way, too.

But, it would have collasped at a point.

The Industrial Era is finished. We are currently entering the Tech Era.

[MaxQue]

I should want to register the fact than she only hastened the collapse of UK industry and mining. She did it in a pretty brutal and heartless way, too.

But, it would have collasped at a point.

The Industrial Era is finished. We are currently entering the Tech Era.

The divide is between those who think the millions of lives destroyed in the process are collateral damage of the free market's wonderful work, and those who think they should be taken care of and and helped find a spot in the new economic order. And that's a big difference.

I'm quite aware of that and you know than I'm.
As for free market, it works well when it's free, but it's rarely is (more often we have oligarchy/duoplies/monopolies).

[MaxQue]

Yes; people have been making that kind of (hilarious pseudo-Marxist on some level) claim/prediction/whatever for quite a few decades now. What should be noted is that pretty much none of the jobs created in technology (or whatever the buzzword of the time is) are to be found in the areas hit hardest by deindustrialisation.

Mostly true. One of jobs of the government is to giving reasons and incitative to "tech" businesses to move and establish themselves in those areas or helping willing poor people from devitalized areas to relocate in areas with jobs.