Amused by this from the Beeb in 2005 when they were looking at the ‘Thatcher Years In Graphics’
The first graphic that they use to sum up Thatcher’s legacy?
That’s right…Champagne sales to all those nouveau riche barrow boys who flashed the cash.
The BBC could I suppose have had a graph showing how many ‘plebs’ with the wrong school tie were able to get jobs in the City when Thatcher broke the monopoly of the Old School Tie network that used to run the place…now ‘democratised’.
Or indeed how many Champagne bottles littered the corridors of Broadcasting House after the election of Labour to power in 1997.
Typical BBC – spiteful, politically motivated and no context.
More interesting would have been an attempt to set this against other drink trends, e.g. wine advancing at the expense of beer, coffee on the up, tea declining, etc.
I suppose the fact that we were tied to the ERM with relatively high interest rates from 1989 and left in September 1992 after which interest rates fell had nothing to do with it.
The al-beeb spends £70,000/year on champagne alone, I guess they contributed too.
Not just champaign!
“Kids’ telly star Natasha Collins, 31, died after a drink and drug binge and her TV presenter fiancé Mark Speight, 42 – who was said to have given her the drugs – hanged himself weeks later. Natasha’s grief-stricken mum Carmen later called for random drug tests on all BBC employees and warned of a cocaine culture in the industry. And a colleague of the couple said after the deaths: ‘…in our line of work taking a line of coke is almost like having a cup of tea’.”
http://tinyurl.com/cmy38je
the socalist workers party are neither socalist or working class,look at there backgrounds,mainly, but not all are in the teaching profession or work for the bbc,very middle class from privilaged backgrounds,lots of posh sounding voices amongst there peers,they insult and threaten anybody that dont agree with there far left politics with violence,thats not socalism or working class,thats middle class marxism and communism
“Hope not Hate” always makes me laugh, coming from the left that is a joke.
read this on speccy web site this morning
http://www.spectator.co.uk/life/status-anxiety/8885811/thatcher-vs-the-intelligentsia/
Young reply to fraser in comments worth reading
As an ex miner who stayed on strike in 84 and saw some good friends vilified because they broke the strike, to feed their kids. let me tell anyone that mythologise the strike you do not know what you are talking about . And all these kids who demonstrate would you work in a mine
Exactly! Can you imagine Owen Jones – or any of those ugly scrawny SWP children that have been on the streets this week – doing a shift down a mine, or a day on a building site. They’d be running home to Mummy with blood pouring from their soft, well-manicured hands after half an hour.
Pathetic little c*nts!
You’ll note the graph stops in 1995. I bet in 1997 there was another leap as champagne socialists got their way and their hands on the purse-strings.
Here’s some stats on mine closures I found the other day. Oh, they only list closures from 1984 – I wonder why that is?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3500979.stm
Who here can provide a link to the figures going back to the 60’s ?
No one? My clumsy attempts to coax reliable data vis google have failed so far.
Need soomeone to help provide the counter data pre 84 so the whole bbc bias can be seen in its true light.
Rufus and Dysgwr, the data is mostly written record. I can tell you that peak South Wales coal was in…1913! My blog about it has a couple of links that if you follow will lead you to more info that makes it clear that closures and redundancies happened in every decade last century. With Maggie being the least guilty.
http://owsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/optimum-outcomes-one-organisation-one.html
I would add that the main link does also highlight why the mining Unions became so strong due to mine owners intransigence on some issues etc
Here some figures for Durham:
1950s: 13
1960s: 81
1970s: 17
1980s: 14
1990 (up to ’93): 6
Click to access Our_Dwindling.pdf
Loads more here about the northern pits (mainly Durham). e.g. 36% drop in miners from 1923 to 1947 (170 thousand to 103 thousand)…
Also numbers above vary slightly re numbers per decade.
http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/1970to1989.html
Thank you span ows!
Some useful comparisons here, courtesy of commentator,
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3238/the_truth_about_thatcher_and_the_miners
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3238/the_truth_about_thatcher_and_the_miners#comment-864222318
Envy is a terrible curse.
During the 80s everyone making money drank lots of fizz. I remember haveing a bottle with fish and chips from the local takeaway.
It was the yuppie era, the time when the markets took off and so did lots of peripheral activities. Who remembers all the nonsense over the beaujolais noveaux culminating in a race to get the first bottles.
I enjoyed it! And why not. Only live once.
‘Envy is a terrible curse’
Your name hasn’t been hijacked too, has it?
This is quality material. Next you’ll be weighing in on most BBC #prasnews nannywags and most harpie ringer QT whingers.
Though, if so, the epaulettes may be getting ceremonially ripped off before long by Dear Team Leader.
Welcome to the bright side!
Did you go into the fish and chip shop and ask for some of that nice looking guacamole only to find it was mushy peas?
(-Scroll down to final item in Richard Kay’s column in ‘Daily Mail’)
“PS. Well-padded union leader and Millwall FC fan Bob Crow complains that Baroness Thatcher died in the Ritz Hotel, ‘somewhere no working people could stay for one night’. However, a room at the Ritz costs £495 a night — much less than the £650 Crow spent on a 50th birthday lunch at Scott’s in Mayfair in 2011. He and four jeans-clad ‘bruvvers’ drank champagne and beer and sank £39 bottles of Morgassi Superiore 2009 Piedmont. Owner Richard Caring subsequently ordered that he not be allowed to patronise the joint ever again.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2307896/RICHARD-KAY-Mary-Beard-proves-classic-crush.html#ixzz2QFXRR28g
Typical BBC / lefty hypocrisy. The Beeb had an annual staff champagne budget until recently, and still spends thousands on drinks for staff.
Interesting thing is that Bex Bailey, the champagne twittering socialist you mentioned, has had multiple appearances on the BBC
She’s been on the telly (BBC news) and on radio 4 (of course)
Strange that Eddie Mair hasn’t been confronting these folk making egregious remarks about Margaret Thatcher and telling them that they are nasty pieces of work.
I drink Nyetimber, its British and is better than that French fizzy stuff.
For Glenda Jackson and the old Labour diehards, if you are not poor, then you are greedy.
But somehow I think that working class loads of money greed is better than the working class poverty that the Labour party needs for votes.
But after Thatcher, the Labour party found a solution to that problem by importing voters.
I’m not surprised to see the graph profile indicating the champagne being sold increasing in the Thatcher years. I don’t know about you, but whenever I’ve bought a house I’ve always had a bottle of the stuff when getting the keys and as far as I can tell, from asking around today, so did everyone else! This graph I would suggest, shows the council house tenants now owning their own property and celebrating with a bottle of bubbly. Well done the BBC for pointing this out to us….a policy that would appear to have worked..and just think of all that extra tax revenue from those sales.
All that graph proves to me, is that more people had more disposable income.
Margaret would be proud.
I love a nice glass of champagne and have drunk gallons over the years because its a nice drink and has become more and more available over the years as Britain has become more wine drinking and affluent.
Its a shame that the left only see the world in stereotypes and ignore its complexities. (BBC Policy I believe) with a child like approach to everything being right or wrong (more BBC policy?) and not letting facts get in the way (BBC policy?).