tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83799167680834655.post6499556272015082186..comments2024-03-27T02:15:42.045-07:00Comments on (beyond) 300 words: Margaret Thatcher RIPJoe Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813771610543530480noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83799167680834655.post-22424215471200914502013-04-11T15:46:33.796-07:002013-04-11T15:46:33.796-07:00Thaks for your comment, Dr Henry: I remember such ...Thaks for your comment, Dr Henry: I remember such attitudes regarding whose job something was in the NHS in Glasgow in those days. I lived a mile from the shipyards, and was regaled constantly by uncles with tales on how union rules were destroying the Clyde with just such practices.<br /><br />sine nomine - spit all you want. The dead will remain dead much longer than the livings' alloted span, so a war on them will always be lost.Gerry Dorrianhttp://300wordtheses.blogspot.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83799167680834655.post-70225920888277560272013-04-11T08:56:52.444-07:002013-04-11T08:56:52.444-07:00Good riddance. /spitGood riddance. /spitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83799167680834655.post-65450932879095669012013-04-09T06:40:10.413-07:002013-04-09T06:40:10.413-07:00I warm to your balanced appraisal. Too many are re...I warm to your balanced appraisal. Too many are ready to express opinions about Margaret Thatcher, right across the spectrum from adulation to loathing. My guess is that their opinions are of interest to themselves, but not many others.<br />One instance in the Winter of Discontent springs to mind: my wife was working as a midwife in a south London maternity unit. She was tending to a premature baby in the nursery. Close by to her was a black plastic bag full of soiled nappies and other potentially infectious material. She said to the ward sister 'I'll just take this bag out to the sluice before I attend to the baby'. The sister replied 'whatever you do, leave that bag alone. If the cleaning staff know you've shifted it, they'll walk out'. Her attempts to get one of the cleaners to do it had met with truculent delaying tactics.<br />Some feel that the country was more or less held to ransome by the Unions in those days. If that was so, small wonder that someone like Thatcher came on to the scene.Dr Henry Tegnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09066781800926576413noreply@blogger.com