Hi Steve

Everything is on the internet, please be assured I don't collect Tory 
manifestos either, but somebody has (full text from 1900 to the present 
day).

http://www.conservative-party.net/manifestos/1979/1979-conservative-manifesto.shtml

Extract re privatisation of British Aerospace (and other stuff) below.

Karen


      Nationalisation

The British people strongly oppose Labour's plans to nationalise yet 
more firms and industries such as building, banking, insurance, 
pharmaceuticals and road haulage. More nationalisation would further 
impoverish us and further undermine our freedom. We will offer to sell 
back to private ownership the recently nationalised aerospace and 
shipbuilding concerns, giving their employees the opportunity to 
purchase shares.

We aim to sell shares in the National Freight Corporation to the general 
public in order to achieve substantial private investment in it. We will 
also relax the Traffic Commissioner licensing regulations to enable new 
bus and other services to develop-particularly in rural areas-and we 
will encourage new private operators.

Even where Labour have not nationalised they interfere too much. We 
shall therefore amend the '975 Industry Act and restrict the powers of 
the National Enterprise Board solely to the administration of the 
Government's temporary shareholdings, to be sold off as circumstances 
permit. We want to see those industries that remain nationalised running 
more successfully and we will therefore interfere less with their 
management and set them a clearer financial discipline in which to work.

High productivity is the key to the future of industries like British 
Rail, where improvements would benefit both the work-force and 
passengers who have faced unprecedented fare increases over the last 
five years.



Birch, Stephen wrote:
> The bit I don't get is he says the tories didnt mention privatisation 
> in their '79 manifesto.  I was working at a British Aerospace 
> engineering site at the time of the election and I distinctly remember 
> the air of despondency the morning after the election because they had 
> committed to privatising among other things British Aerospace.  The 
> corporation was one of the first to be privatised and the particular 
> site i worked at was closed in pretty quick time.
>  
> Now i dont collect Conservative manifestos to the same extent as 
> Rothmans football yearbooks . . .so I cannot check. .  .but I dont 
> think my memory is playing tricks on this.
>  
> Steve Birch
>  
>  
>
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> *From:* Anglo-American Health Policy Network on behalf of Adam Oliver
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> I think this is a good piece, published a month before the UK election.
>
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n08/john-gray/thatcher-thatcher-thatcher
>
>
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