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  1. 42 minutes ago, NornIronBear said:

    Until Rangers gets of it's arse and employs a proper PR strategy the attacks will continue and increase. 

    The board are only interested when it's one of them that's targeted. Are Rangers blind to the fact the press and the snp are setting them up as the target for point deductions and stand closures?

     

    Our board has two open goals to shoot at involving sporting integrity sceptic, that they refuse to do so is a bigger mystery than the meaning of life.

  2. 6 minutes ago, Sweettartangirl said:

    Get a grip. Typical that you would be the one "backing up" idiots and passing them off as okay to do Rangers over. 

    No idea why I actually even reply to you, but it certainly won't be happening again.  Like that absolute walloper BP9, you're now on ignore as well. 

    Have a marvellous day.  Take your sarcastic comments and ram it. 

    thank you for a reasonless reply....equality has a lot to answer for...🤗🤗🤗😏

  3. From figures it would appear the demise of mines was more than double the tory total, under labour.

     

     

    Then there is the charge that it was Margaret Thatcher who "destroyed" the coal mines and the mining communities. How many times have the BBC broadcast that claim without refutation? Yet the facts show that far more coal mines closed under the Labour Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

    These are the figures for the sharply declining number of coal mines open each year under those Labour Governments.

    1964           545

    1965   ..      504

    1966   ..      442

    1967   ..      406

    1968   ..      330

    1969   ..      304
     


    1974   ..      250

    1975   ..      241

    1976  ..      239

    1977   ..      231

    1978  ..      223

    1979  ..      219  

    These are the figures for the Thatcher years:

    1979  ..      219

    1980   ..      213

    1981  ..      200

    1982   ..      191

    1983   ..      170

    1984  ..      169

    1985  ..      133

    1986   ..      110

    1987   ..      94

    1988   ..      86

    1989   ..      73

    1990   ..      65 

    The Lord Palmerston blog says:

    It was the ever-erudite @allanholloway who brought to my attention a few weeks back that more coal mines closed under Harold Wilson’s governments than under Margaret Thatcher’s, and I owe him an apology for not having credited him sooner, given the number of retweets I got for passing that on earlier.  Based on these figures from the government about 290 mines closed under Wilson in all his time in office, and about 160 under Thatcher.  Because the figures are based on year end totals of pits operating, it’s not possible to be precise, but the relative scale of those numbers is clear.  So why isn’t Wilson execrated by the Left for his part in the decline of coal mining?

    That is a fair question. Do the Left seriously claim that Harold Wilson was accepting economic realities while Margaret Thatcher was motivated by sheer spite?

  4. 33 minutes ago, ForeverAndEver said:

    You do realise he hasn’t said that, that is the front page eh?

    Page nine allegedly. chap on FF said he had one of the 300 editions in circulation, again allegedly, but couldn't supply any pics as it was a matter of confidentiality, or such.

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