mancityvstoke said:
crystal_mais said:
It's called process optimisation which should lead to efficiency savings. At that time these were nationalised industries which ultimately would have become too costly to run by the govt with little returns on the investment due to cost and quality.
Like I and a few others had mentioned earlier. If Thatcher didn't do it, the subsequent Labour or Conservative Governments would have had to have done it.
My mother ended up out of work and my father had to work hard to support us. We were all impacted. I spoke to him about it yesterday and his comments were although they were tough decisions that she made and my parents hated it at the time, they were ultimately the right decisions.
Call it whatever fancy term you like. It is wrong to shit on people in the name of profit.
Just my opinion like.
I can see where you are coming from, and I agree that unemployment is a terrible thing, however it could not have gone on like it was, I don't think people understand the magnitude of problems we faced , much of the world had moved on but we had not, it was certainley very difficult for everyone. But profit is the very nature of any buisiness (ultimately despite what they may say) and it is profit that drives private sector investment (ultimately)
It's a bit off topic, but the biggest problem all parties have faced is coming up with a sustainable solution for the North, the last government tried the easy way by expanding the public sector, and it was a good way of getting money back in the system and people in jobs, but it's not sustainable, we need radical solutions to revitalise, there is some hope on the horizon you can see that in the redevelopment of Manchester, but we need more much more to close the North south divide
