| Topic: | Re:What did the Tories ever do for us ? | |
| Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
| Date/Time: | 17/03/08 11:24:00 |
| "...if I am completely honest I can't think of anything good that the tories did..." Peter, I am currently reading a book called "Triumph TR7 -The Untold Story" which includes examples of the way the unions ran things at the Speke plant in Liverpool, which included physical assaults on anyone refusing to toe their line and the awful lack of quality control that made the cars they produced virtually unsellable. The Conservative's union reforms may have been too late to save what was left of our motor industry but they brought an overdue dose of reality into other workplaces and had much to do with the increasing prosperity we have enjoyed since. Despite the howls of protest from the Labour party at the time neither Blair nor Brown (so far, at any rate) have sought to turn back the clock to those days. Then there was the 87% top rate of tax that they inherited and significantly reduced, engagement with Gorbachev that helped end the Cold War, privatisation of lumbering monoliths like BT which, for all their faults, are now competing in the modern world, etc.etc.... |