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Originally Posted by rob justice
Coal mines, steelworks, ship-building and basically all heavy engineering paid the price.
Approx 50% of Scotland's manufacturing was gone within 4 years of her leadership.
Plants that were efficient and profitable were sacrificed to allow others where votes talked remain open.
As a nation we used to make things and have pride in doing so, now it's a shadow with the local authorities being the main employers - or call centres.
Agree the unions had become too powerful - and needed brought back into line but there's ways and means.
I left school in times where hungar strikers were dying, it was almost like civil war local to me in a mining comunity.
Coal is now imported and local mining communities have never recovered.
Energy policies based on the price of coal and completely forgetting to add the social cost to the equation.
She was very lucky the timing of the Falklands which without she would never have won a 2nd term.
And once she got her hands on North Sea Oil revenue - she stole the gold from under our feet.
Dispise that woman - but it gave me an extra reason to enjoy my wee dram on Monday.
Sorry for the rant - around here it's still a sore point 30 years later.
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Not only Scotland. What about Liverpool? An entire City she was happy to sacrifice as an example to all of us. The North East? South Wales? Sheffield? The list goes on.