Australia's Next Prime Minister O/T

[Aspers]

Is going to be Julia Gillard.
Kevin 07 is going to get the flick from his party as P.M and Australia will have its 1st female Prime Minister.

Governer General. (Woman)
Prime Minister ( Woman)
Premier of NSW (Woman)

Bloody Sheilas running the place.

I LOVE IT!

[shrimpnsave]

Is going to be Julia Gillard.
Kevin 07 is going to get the flick from his party as P.M and Australia will have its 1st female Prime Minister.

Governer General. (Woman)
Prime Minister ( Woman)
Premier of NSW (Woman)

Bloody Sheilas running the place.

I LOVE IT!

have they all got big tits

[stevanshrimp]

Must be a twitcher!

[durhamshrimp]

Never let another one do it in this country. Not after the mess the last woman made.

[Heysham_Shrimp]

Never let another one do it in this country. Not after the mess the last woman made.

Maggie 1 Scargill 0

job done !

[P/T Indie]

and she's Welsh

[Keith]

have they all got big tits

Aspers would/has/will (delete as appropriate)
"a socialist who's taken to wearing pearls" Australian New Labour?

[NeilG]

Never let another one do it in this country. Not after the mess the last woman made.

Maggie 1 Scargill 0

job done !

Yep, that's right " job done " communities decimated, thousands of jobs lost, just so we could import cheap coal extracted by 14 year old Columbian children

Congratulations on your victory, Satan will be readying a special place for Maggie and her friends

[durhamshrimp]

Apparently she barely knows what day it is now. Which is funny.

[Heysham_Shrimp]

Never let another one do it in this country. Not after the mess the last woman made.

Maggie 1 Scargill 0

job done !

Yep, that's right " job done " communities decimated, thousands of jobs lost, just so we could import cheap coal extracted by 14 year old Columbian children

Congratulations on your victory, Satan will be readying a special place for Maggie and her friends

so how many coal mines were re-opened in the period May 1997 to May 2010 ?

[scar]

Never let another one do it in this country. Not after the mess the last woman made.

Maggie 1 Scargill 0

job done !

Yep, that's right " job done " communities decimated, thousands of jobs lost, just so we could import cheap coal extracted by 14 year old Columbian children

Congratulations on your victory, Satan will be readying a special place for Maggie and her friends

We import cheap coal mainly from Russia, South Africa & Australia (@90%) the rest is divided up by more than a dozen different countries.

Coal usage went up under Labour by in excess of 10%

CO2 emmissions are now higher than ever!

We used to be self sufficient with Coal in the 1980's but a lack of willingness to change working practices, embrace new technology, restraint in remuneration resulted in the miners dispute. At the time our coal was the most expensive in the world!

[RedRedWine1]

so how many coal mines were re-opened in the period May 1997 to May 2010 ?

They didn't need to; creating hundreds of thousands of needless public sector jobs has created a tax subsidised workforce. The employees employing the employers, imposing on the competitiveness of the productive sector, by increasing the size of the unproductive one that is accountable to nobody.

[NeilG]

We used to be self sufficient with Coal in the 1980's but a lack of willingness to change working practices, embrace new technology, restraint in remuneration resulted in the miners dispute. At the time our coal was the most expensive in the world!

The Thatcher government had a direct interest in the mining of Colombian coal. British government teams visited Colombia to look for coal before the Thatcher regime began its assault on British mining communities in the early 1980s. The destruction of our communities depended also on the destruction of both the agricultural and fishing communities in Guajira Colombia which would force them into mining thus increasing the output requirments. The British government wanted cheap coal and British miners' pay was too high. Coal from Guajira would be cheaper, costs could be absorbed by villagers removed with inadequate compensation, workers who could then be paid much less than British miners, and the Colombian government was paid off with UK investment in infrastructure. The European Union imported over 70% of Colombia's coal, Britain being among the biggest recipients. The privatisation of the British economy was assisted by Colombian coal. British workers, Colombian farmers and taxpayers and Wayuu communities all paid the price." Blame the UK workers for unrest and strikes all you want boys but the simple facts are that they were honest hard working people ( how many of you tories ever shovelled coal for a living ? ) were fighting for their lives because they knew what Thatcher was up to.
Sorry for hijacking your thread Aspers but I didn't start the fire

[Keith]

I didn't start the fire

...using British or Columbian coal?

I think the truth was somewhere in the middle. Scargill thought that he should be running the country and was more important than elected politicians. He was prepared to sacrifice his members to take on the government. Flip side, Thatcher didn't just want to beat the miners, she wanted to decimate them and their communities. Having broken them, she continued until she'd destroyed their very entity, taking with them the shops & pubs etc.

In my opinion, for the sake of democracy, Scargill had to lose but Thatcher had nothing but disdain for anyone who wasn't 'successful'. If you were poor, uneducated or ill she believed you deserved nothing. Probably the best politician of the 20th century... but a complete and utter bitch.