[Closed] milk snatcher film

So you don't mean these milk snatchers then..

on general release it's not a particularly high certificate.

in Barnsley & Wakefield they made it an 18...
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unsuitable for miners 😉
that's my coat in the corner

yep, i'm thinking a bit dangerous watchin it as seen as i live 200yards from the old Wheldale pit in Casvegas, in a old miners house.might get strung up.

Watch it.
Always worth seeing how history can be rewritten to excuse the guilty and pretend the sins of the past never occured.

Ann Widdecombe for example.
Will she be remembered as:
A) A nice old dear who can't dance

or

B) Evil Tory Witch Queen who advocated handcuffing female prisoners to their beds during childbirth?

I shall not be watching it anytime soon

nothing will alter my opinion of her.

John go and think about what you have done.

There's a film on about Harold Wilson?

you know, Public Expenditure and Receipts Act, 1968, Chapter Three ?

It's ok, some great acting, but it skips completely all the controversial subjects such as the Poll Tax, the Miners Strike etc. It's more about her relationship with Denis and how she came to power.

it skips completely all the controversial subjects such as the Poll Tax, the Miners Strike etc. It's more about her relationship with Denis and how she came to power.

bollocks to it, i will watch the Goonies again then 😉

you know, Public Expenditure and Receipts Act, 1968, Chapter Three ?

Wow, it took fifteen years to fully implement the milk bit? 😯

Well, every day's a school day.

FWIW despite my bleeding heart leftism I will definitely watch it.

John go and think about what you have done.

it's ok, they can take a joke 😉 I work in Barnsley now. Grew up/went to school in Wakefield.

...and with a little more basic googling:

Labour did not ban or make it illegal for local education authorities to continue supplying free school to secondary schools if they wanted to.

And as far as primary school children were concerned, Labour, in the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968 made it a mandatory requirement for free school milk to continue to be supplied.

Thatcher changed that with legislation that made it illegal even for local authorities to supply free milk and any authority doing so would be gulity of breaking the law.

I presume this last paragraph means free milk to over 7's (Thatcher's 1971 legislation made it [b]illegal[/b] as opposed to "not mandatory" for LA's to supply it to over 7's) as I still had it age six in the early eighties in 2 different and distant LA's.

Still, thanks for providing the first half of an interesting point again Zulu 😉

Excellent film with superb performance by Streep and Broadbent. Streep for the accuracy of her portrayal and Broadbent for his acting, timing, delivery and humour. It doesn't dwell on the more politically controversial aspects of her time in power, but more on living with dementia and her relationship with Dennis. That is what makes Broadbents acting so special. He delivers brilliant lines to bring humour in dark passages.

I would be a shame to miss out on good acting simply because of the hating the central character. It would be like missing Chaplin in The Great Dictator or Nicholas and Alexandar because you didn't approve of Tsar/Rasputin/Lenin (take your pick). But each to their own, it does clash with CBB after all 😉

So, if Thatcher hadn't done this, who would have ? Can you really see today's overfed kids wanting or needing a warm 1/3 pint of milk at break time ? It was universally detested (by us kids) at the time, and was only there as a dietary supplement following the post-war misery.
One of many useful bits of slapping that Thatcher handed out to bring this country to it's senses.
(goes off to fetch the popcorn....)

If she was really in her stride, surely Thatcher wouldn't have made it illegal, but instead would have removed the obligation of Local Authorities to provide it to all school ages not just secondary as Labour did (and some kind of corresponding drop in funding if possible at the time) and then minimised loss in support from dairy farmers and whichever parents* were bothered (*despite being well lefty and quite French, I am not sure my folks were really that bothered) by blaming it all on the local authorities or schools.

ps44, you want a "mr Whippy" for this film not popcorn. 😀