Does anyone think the mines Thatcher closed would still be open
today? No, they were uneconomic. Would we still be building ships on the
Tyne if she'd broken the unions sooner? Yes, the work went, of all
places, to Korea.
There was plenty of hardship during her time,
not all of her making. On Tyneside workers were laid off because the
unions made them unemployable. Only an electrician could change a
lightbulb. Anyone else did it and the strike was on. My dad would
despair as he watched the work go elsewhere and families go hungry.
He
was a Labour supporter all his life and would not buy the Tory Sun even
when I worked for them - except for the day my picture graced the front
page. A dad first then. Margaret Thatcher had her faults, but weakness
was not one of them. Her love of country sent her battling Europe time
after time on our behalf. Absolutely all of us, everyone of us, has a
lot to thank her for.
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