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[WBA123]

I must admit that I would 'give my right arm' to have Maggie leading this country at this moment in time!

Are you missing the good old days of record high unemployment and interest rates?

Maybe it was her record of almost crippling the NHS with chronic underfunding that would have really done the trick versus the old Coronavirus.

Go back since the start of Maggie's time and see which party invested the most into the NHS, it certainly wasn't any Tory government.

[Albionic68]

I must admit that I would 'give my right arm' to have Maggie leading this country at this moment in time!

You know the old saying about giving with one hand and taking away with the other? If you'd have offered her one arm she'd have snatched 'em both off..... from the soggy end.

[Lindenbaggie]

At the time, I didn't like Thatcher, but respected her. She followed meritocracy when appointing ministers, rather than the current chumocracy which is bound to eventually fail. Likewise, we can see failures in different organizations where meritocracy has been abandoned in favour of quota filling. Once told that when the atlas was one-third pink, just 3000 civil servants administered the countries in those areas. Unbelievable how as a nation we have allowed this deterioration.

[Yarmbaggie]

At the time, I didn't like Thatcher, but respected her. She followed meritocracy when appointing ministers, rather than the current chumocracy which is bound to eventually fail. Likewise, we can see failures in different organizations where meritocracy has been abandoned in favour of quota filling. Once told that when the atlas was one-third pink, just 3000 civil servants administered the countries in those areas. Unbelievable how as a nation we have allowed this deterioration.

Blimey LB are you suggesting we should have stopped countries that once were part of the Empire from developing in a free way and making their own way in the world?

[Lindenbaggie]

Blimey LB are you suggesting we should have stopped countries that once were part of the Empire from developing in a free way and making their own way in the world?

Not at all-good luck to them, and I hope they prosper going forward. I'm just trying to highlight the deterioration in standards in the UK over the last forty to sixty years which have ended in poor appointments being made, which have led to poor decision making, and whose effects will last for decades.