September 30, 2012

Thatcher: the lady is not for turning

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At the 1980 Conservative Party conference Margaret Thatcher declared that the lady was not for turning but turn she did on economic policy

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The Jobs Express took hundreds of young unemployed people around Britain in 1981 and some companies along the way offered jobs

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Contrary to what many think, youth in the 80s were often jobless and in dire poverty with one terrible training schemes to provide an income

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Four Coventry black British heroes of the late 1970s and early 1980s should be immortalised argues author Tony McMahon

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Jobs for Youth leaflet from 1982