"We didn't mind the economic side so much. But we didn't like the social side at all."
I left a comment with home-owning, class warrior Terry Kelly:
I'm surprised that as one of the many thousands of Scots who has taken advantage of the right to buy your council house at a vastly reduced cost, you are not in agreement with Salmond.
The economy needed an overhaul, but the way Thatcher went about it was abhorrent to Scots - hence the Tory party was wiped out entirely in Scotland, but remained the dominant force in England.
The social aspect of Thatcherism was what really set Scotland against her. No reasonable person could honestly take umbrage at that view point, particularly not someone when Labour are considering entering a pact with the Tories for political expediency, whilst the Tories still worship Thatcher, Gordon Brown has expressed his unstinting admiration for her (over tea at downing street) and Blair declared himself the natural heir to Thatcher.
Terry's response has been:
There is nothing here absolutely nothing which is true, not a single thing.
Well, if that's the case I'll withdraw the points which aren't true. I await with baited breath an update on the following response:
Really? Which bits have I got wrong?
These aren't the actual words used by Salmond in the Ian Dale Interview ?"We didn't mind the economic side so much. But we didn't like the social side at all."
You don't own a former council-house?
The economy was not in need of an overhaul when Thatcher came to power?
The Tories weren't wiped out in Scotland during the Thatcher years, whilst they remained the dominant party in the UK?
Iain Gray did not raise the prospect of pact with the Tories, as reported in the Scotsman ?
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