http://www.archive.org/details/cus_2009-05-07_debate_proud-of-thatcher

The Conservatives under Maggie believed in equality where opportunity was available to all and the most able could succeed regardless of how much their parents earned or who they were.

Now look at Britain:

- An ever expanding and increasingly stifling quangocracy stuffed with unelected cronies.

- Ever more punitive taxes (see the last budget proposals) on people who want to save for their retirement. These have already effectively destroyed final salary pension schemes.

- Good education increasingly only available to those who can afford to pay for it, denying opportunity to clever children whose parents are not well off and stifling social mobility.

This situation cannot be good for the economy, it does nothing to encourage hard work and self sufficiency. It does what it was designed to do, keep the poor and low paid in a trap where they depend on state handouts and have little opportunity to escape.

Heaven knows how many years it will take to repair the damage done by Blair and Brown.

Thank goodness the next generation of students have seen through the socialist utopia.

We are only now realising we still need the coal that sits beneath this once pleasant but now “green” land.

Sadly, the legal authority of Parliament has mostly been handed to the EU, from Maastricht onwards.

I always disagreed that a public asset, council houses, should be flogged off cheap, to be sold on at a profit at everyone else’s expense. If there were still the council house stock, maybe the sub prime market wouldn’t have had such a lot of subscribers.

I moved permanently here in 1986 (it cost £99 and took 3 months to get a phone line connected at the time, funny how socialists forget that!)), and the transformation has been remarkable.

I am French.

Now you know why Labour is keen on lowering the voting age to 16. !!!!!!

I covered your blog on the Cambridge Conservatives website with a few [rather badly taken] photos:

http://www.cuca.org.uk/2009/05/08/the-cambridge-union-is-proud-of-margaret-thatcher/

reply: many thanks.

They will never be forgiven.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/Taxes/WorkingAndPayingTax/DG_10027015

This webpage says if you pay someone more than £110 a week then you must register as an employer. It was a law he brought in.

Gordon introduced rules so that nannies and housekeepers are employees, and their employers must pay NI. Brown’s excuse for paying his brother the money is that “it simplified NI payments”.

So what Gordon is saying is that the large amount of red-tape that he is burdening business with should be avoided. Why can’t Gordon employ the cleaner directly – like every body else. Why can’t Gordon fill in all the NI forms and make the employer and employee NI payments – like everybody else.

Is red-tape only for the little people?

With business dogged by red-tape costing billions a year. Gordon avoids it. That in my mind is a resigning matter.