The free milk controversy - back to Thatcher!!

It just proves that there is nothing new under the sun with the proposal (personally squashed
by UK Prime Minister David Cameron) that free milk should be withdrawn from under five year old children at educational establishments. It just shows my age that I can remember this type of controversy dogged the old battle axe Margaret Thatcher herself. I know I should not poke fun at the victor of the Falklands War but her economic policies were pretty responsible for the reduced industrial capability of the UK.

It was sad watching a programme of "Top Gear" when Jeremy Clarkson visited the old empty factory, which manufactured the Jensen sports car in West Bromwich and said that we don't manufacture anything anymore in the UK.

I suppose we don't go in for suporting industrial champions but we did rescue Rolls Royce in the 1970s and that was a pretty good move for both the aero-engine maker and for us as a nation. Currently, it is open season for the world class manufacturers we still have in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Who would have thought a bidding war would have broken out for Chloride!