(All quotations taken from Fleet Street coverage of the Toxteth school riot)
The world is today in uproar over revelations that rebellion in riot-torn Britain is being fomented by an anonymous 50 year old schoolgirl. Fleet Street has refused to speak out for fear of reprisals. But this week, in an exclusive exposé, we name the tiny tot behind the terror: HER NAME IS MARGARET THATCHER This hooligan in blue chiffon and her crew of infant muggers plan to hold the entire country to ransom.
My children tell me it is one particular group who are causing all the trouble. led by a very tough girl,' said a terrified mum. 'She beats up other KIds, thumos them unti thev do wha she says, said anther too scared to oe nanee From her Downing Street hideout Iron Maggie' is plotting her latest COUL code-named Budget Classmate 'Tiny' Rowland and his squad of bankers, bribed to the gills on the proceeds of property looted from the ill-fated Amersham school plan to bankrupt the nation's parents with insatiable demands for cash for their bloated lockers.
Bootboy Tebbit will then kick off a new wave of vandalism as hordes of blue-helmeted six-year Roles on by ringleader 'Judge Dread' Denning, descend on Britain's factories in helicopters and lorries, armed to the teeth with iron bars and wearing balaclavas, teer the machinerv to bits drive off with their loot to destinations unknown.
Despair reigns. The whole class Britain's managers - lives in terror, said one distraught mother.
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Heseltine, who prides himself on his apeman image - is already ransacking classrooms, burning books, and power, he plans to demands on the entire travelling folk of London. Classmate 'Spiderman' Parker has been narrowly prevented from closing down the entire railway network of the country.
ADanS have a sinister background. We can WW TeveG G Hev are anouatce by shadowy outside forces seeking Minister 'Nott of the chief protec. has swung a daring deal with cowboy adventurer Ronald -reclaeot of In a breathtakingly amCote named the duo plan to sell off all SCHOOIS and down prices .51 return tor ine most cigantic arsenal 01 assembled in Come November Iron Maggie and her chums will board a Freddie Laker Jumbo, ny ou to a canooean tax the country to We say 'Stop them now!' taxes?
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eliminated you had a job are incredibly capital The press is rife with speculation about the budget. Will Howe cut Will he reflate?
One thing is sure: workpeople will get nothing from him.
The Tories came to office claiming they would cut taxes. But their own Price Index shows what has happened: taxes have gone up for all but the very rich from a quarter to a third of gross earnings, so that standards have dramatically.
Howe wants to repeat this 'achievement'. Brian looks at the background.
Last year production fell by 15 per the biggest drop in history With the economy inching OUL of it is obvious that Tory regret is sheer hypocrisy. In 1981 profits, productivity and unemployment all went up while real wages and public sector spending went down.
Howe's budget but mass unemployment. The Manpower Services Commission has confirmed the TUC's estimate of four million out of work.
The fact is that unamployment i the only way the Tories know to ge productivity up. Last year this rose by nearly ten per cent in manufacturing Labour costs per COTTL OT OUTDUT which were rising by 25 per cent a year in 1980, are now rising by only 2 per cent per year. Both these figures are better thap any of Britain's rivals But this wasn't done by improving Britain's machinery. Manufacturing investment is twenty per cent down on 1980 and still falling. It was done on the backs of the working class.
Hours worked per week have risen by eight per cent and if overtime was 880,000 jobs would be created. Wage rises were less than six per cent in private industry.
In short, you worked harder - if - and got less.
This is why last year saw the beginning of a turn around in profits which collapsed in 1980, with a E3bn deficit. In the first six months of 1981 British companies got a E1bn surplus These are real gains - but they modest. in the las quarter of 1981 the rate of return on which decides whether capitalsts invest of not - was a mere 2.25 per cent, compared with 5.4 pel cent in 1978 and 8.8 per cent in 1971. And Thatcher's burning problem is that she must reverse a long-term