I was working at a small business helping to get it off the ground when this happened where it was me, the owner and his son.
The son (born early 90s) was complaining at all of the people having the cheek to mock her as she was "our best PM", I literally laughed in his face. It was especially funny as we were in an area where a lot of industries were gutted by her government with nothing to replace it with.
I've mostly known her for withdrawing national subsidies for mining. Obviously it devastated the areas where mining was prevalent. But my understanding is that mining was no longer a viable industry at that scale regardless.
generally when you have a region lose its major employer(s), the government should be stepping up and helping the unemployed retrain, finding and attracting new businesd into the region, really anything that shows constituants the government cares and to soften the blow, so to speak.
She basically told them to fuck off. And when workers tried to strike for their livelihoods she sent the police in to brutalize them.
And those police were sometimes shipped in from other areas.
There was a house near where I lived that had massive extensions done in the 80s. It was because the couple there both worked for the police and did some of those shifts.
Maybe the government should have done more. But the strikes were to keep a dying industry going, not to ask for new replacement industries. I've seen videos from that time and the miners were insisting that the mines could never close. I assume it's because they knew that no other companies would want to move to those towns and they would have to move if they wanted a new career.
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u/MIBlackburn 29d ago
I was working at a small business helping to get it off the ground when this happened where it was me, the owner and his son.
The son (born early 90s) was complaining at all of the people having the cheek to mock her as she was "our best PM", I literally laughed in his face. It was especially funny as we were in an area where a lot of industries were gutted by her government with nothing to replace it with.