lol.. No you quite literally cant say that to me.  because right now I am correct, its happening... yours IS a dream at the moment.

I have heard the exact same thing you are sayiong for decades.... usually from students, but it never happens.  Why do you think that is?

When people finally get jobs and earn their own living... their perspective often and usually changes.  It's human nature.

Where is this socialist party going to come from?  Labour isnt remotely socialist, they were shaped by Blair, who took most of his noted from... yep... Maggie.

America's foreign policy annoys me somewhat, I studied the Cold War in College, their actions were often more provocative than the Soviet Union. Similarly, since the Soviet Union's collapsed, America's policy's have largely gone unchanged, except now, no one is there to directly oppose them (China and Russia don't stop them enough).

Part of it is also my dislike of British politicians who suck up to America too much, far too often do we help you out when it doesn't benefit us in any way and the cons out weigh the pros.

I dont agree with selling power/water, but actually most of these monopolies were totally inefficient. Thats governement for you... the bigger the system the more money/red tape thats required. So making them private companies and making competition cuts costs and improves systems on the whole.

The Coal mines, well lets be honest they are totally a waste of money. We can buy coal and get it shipped from Australia than digging up our own coal. When something is that inefficient there is no point keeping it going. Open coal mines are the most efficient, but we dont have the room over here to do that. Personally i would rather us waste that money we would spend on getting coal out of the ground on solar panels on every house.

Selling council houses actually helped house hold income and gave people more spending money - so it helped the economy, the *BIG* problem was that no one (conservatives or labour after) had considered building any more. So a bubble was created. The actual idea of people owning their own houses was fine, it was the rest of it that was the problem. In fact no goverment since the 80's has still fixed the housing issue... were still not building them in anywhere near high enough numbers.

You basically just said I should be dealt with as a class traitor.  I'd report you but whats the point. 

Wow.  Seriously.... WOW!  Your comments are from a time long gone.  Its frankly embarrassing that you talk of class wars and betraying your class?  Where the do you live?  How old are you?

Class traitor implies you can never leave your "class" or if you do you are a traitor and you imply deserve to be murdered?  Time when people were bolder? Are you bold enough to deal with class traitors?    Whats your class?  How often have you not eaten? 

The reason I left the slum I grew up in is because my father got of his arse and set up a business with a spade and a bike.  He made something of himself, after years of hard work and effort, we eventually moved. 

I studied hard at school and did well.  I got a decent job, seemingly much easier than you did in a time of much higher unemployment (cant think why?  I think i just have a better attitude, judging previous conversations) and I then eventually set my own business up and did very well.

I made something of myself just like my dad made something of HIMSELF. 

Stop pointing the finger and look after your own life.  We've had this conversation before.

Academic socialists... marginally above champagnse socilaists in my top 10 of people who deserve my contempt.

The problem we have right now, is Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems are all pretty much reading from the same rhetoric, just worded/phrased differently. There is no big ideas from any of them to actually fix our current economy. Margaret Thatcher had these ideas, she implemented them. It worked spectacularly (hence unemployment turned a corner, people in general (looking at the nation as a whole) etc became better off. There were no constant rolling black outs with power. Rubbish was collected (in the 70s it was left in the street). Most of the haters, simply don't understand the reality of what life was like in Britain in the late 70s, like me, they hadn't been born at that point. It improved for the vast majority of people. Unlike the idiots posting hate on Facebook etc however, I've actually studied our history a bit more and have concluded I'm so glad I was born in 1983!

However, the communities and industries she devestated, took an utter hammering and it's easy to see why they have and never will forgive her.

Our economy right now is heading down a similar path and if we carry on having the lame duck career politicians running our country (be it Labour/Lib Dem or Tory) fiddling with little things while Rome is burning, only a figure as divisive as Thatcher would be able to bring anything back from the brink.

I disagree with a lot of the things she has done, however nobody has bothered to turn any of this around. You'd think she was the last politician in power from the way idiots (yes, they are idiots) blame her for current issues. We've had 5 general elections since she was in power. Warning signs for things like Housing/the upcoming energy crisis/Financial crash [more a result of Blair/Brown's continued relaxation of financial regulations] etc have all been around for over a decade. They chose not to act. Can't blame Thatcher for that. What was right for the country in the 80s wasn't still right in the mid 90s and even less so in the mid 00s.

Not to be too harsh.  But what the hell do you know about UK mid 70's and what she inherited and HAD to sort out.  Nothing!.

I lived it pal.

I dont agree with selling power/water, but actually most of these monopolies were totally inefficient. Thats governement for you... the bigger the system the more money/red tape thats required. So making them private companies and making competition cuts costs and improves systems on the whole.

How? There is no competition for consumers in water, buses, or rail. For power, gas and telecoms, you can technically choose a supplier, but the physical pipe is the same and providers are clearly operating a cartel because prices go up in lockstep and do not fall when the wholesale price of gas/electricity/bandwidth falls. On the telecoms side, Britain is dense enough for 100Mbit fibre to be basically everywhere but the hills of Scotland, yet I am stuck with a <1Mbit connection on the top tier.

Something like mobile phones can be competitive because four independent physical networks operate and consumers have free choice which holds prices down.

I agree government monopolies are inefficient, but just putting the word private on them doesn't change that. There has to be meaningful competition between independent providers. Privatisation also makes the companies completely unaccountable - Thames Water is losing millions of gallons of water in leaks and they don't care; whereas a Government organisation could be made to change via political/media pressure.

The Coal mines, well lets be honest they are totally a waste of money. We can buy coal and get it shipped from Australia than digging up our own coal. When something is that inefficient there is no point keeping it going. Open coal mines are the most efficient, but we dont have the room over here to do that. Personally i would rather us waste that money we would spend on getting coal out of the ground on solar panels on every house.

Solar panels? In Britain? lololol. No, what we need is lots of new nuclear as a stopgap to clean nuclear fusion. Nuclear is now safe, in addition to being reliable and scalable unlike renewables.

Selling council houses actually helped house hold income and gave people more spending money - so it helped the economy, the *BIG* problem was that no one (conservatives or labour after) had considered building any more. So a bubble was created. The actual idea of people owning their own houses was fine, it was the rest of it that was the problem. In fact no goverment since the 80's has still fixed the housing issue... were still not building them in anywhere near high enough numbers.

Yep. We need to buld lots of houses and ignore planning regulations. They won't do it because house prices will fall...