05-01-2018, 02:10 PM
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Re: Thatcher
Originally Posted by CeeCee
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This country is not "crowded", only 7% is inhabited. Therefore 93% is rural. It is a total myth about this country being full, perpetrated by the tabloid media.
In a list of densely populated countries the UK is number 52. England is the most densely populated country Europe
05-01-2018, 02:16 PM
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Re: Thatcher
Originally Posted by Rainmaker
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Compared to Australia the UK is crowded. In a list of densely populated countries the UK is number 52. England is the most densely populated country Europe
05-01-2018, 02:43 PM
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Re: Thatcher
Originally Posted by Rainmaker
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The trouble with basing opinions on Internet economics for students is you get completely the wrong impression. For those of us who lived through her premiership, as workers in the private sector being held to ransom by workers in the public sector and public sector unions she was a godsend. I certainly don't propose to go through all the post singling out individual paragraphs but most of it is inaccurate.I think to compare the UK at that time with Australia is comparing chalk and cheese. With the UK you have a crowded country who in recent times fought two world wars from which it took a long while to recover. A country whose coalmines were no longer economical, who was in the process of modernising many of our traditional industries such as iron and steel and car manufacturing. A country trying to compete with foreign imports which were considerably cheaper and better quality than our own products.
Compared to Australia, a new sparsely populated country who don't have the encumbering baggage of outdated industries to modernise.. A country who have the space to grow and infinite supplies of raw materials and resources which were only just beginning to be exploited and are in demand the world over. It is only natural that Australia should be able to introduce modern reforms more easily than the UK and have the funding to back them.
I think if you're going start to compare countries, then they should be countries of similar standing, the only thing we have in common, particularly these days, with Australia is the English language.
05-01-2018, 04:17 PM
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Re: Thatcher
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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It's only dense because people cluster together. If we spread out it wouldn't seem so.
How far do we go? What happens to wildlife when it is shoved out of it's environment?
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