For Thatcher. Who's in?
For Thatcher. Who's in?
Classy
It's not anti-social where I come from.
Better get building that dancefloor
Wonder if she gets to meet her murdering mate, Pinochet, in hell?
im cheering now. good riddance. made my day
Ding dong the witch is dead.
Count me In.
It's a point the apologists for her go mute on Baz, and for good reason: there's no defence for them. She supported Pinochet and the Khmer Rouge whilst the tortured and executed thousands whilst backing the apartheid regime in South Africa; apparently Mandela was a terrorist.
The destruction of this countries manufacturing base was a lasting legacy and whilst it is churlish to ignore the corrosive effects the unions also had in some of that, she was naïve in the extreme to be applying failed monetarist politics at about the same time the Reaganites were applying double standards and embellishing the US's protectionist policies to ensure the likes of GM could maintain their strength.
She enjoyed a position of strength, championed by the UK's right wing press and Police who later showed their upstanding character in fine style. I wonder who would envy having Kelvin McKenzie, Conrad Black and Norman Bettison in your list of ardent supporters.
Whilst I think it crass to celebrate her death (there's a certain double standards to it), I do think she deserves every bit of forensic retrospective of her policies and can understand the acidic criticism she is currently receiving.
she deserves nothing. She put 3m on dole in months, caused country wide riots because of her innane policies, started a war, smashed the miners literally whom many still havent recovered, ravaged the steelworkers, decimated all industry. Today is a legacy of all that she did. Should have been hung for treason for crimes to the nation.
I hope her son mark has got a 'sat nav' to the where the bitch is ending up, i wouldnt want him to end up in a desert. A sad day for brucie, tarby, cilla, parky. All the rugger clubs around england will be flying there flags at halfmast, and the chaps at twickers will be devastated. A minutes silence at all rugger grounds on saturday and wearing black armbands for the next. As for the rest of us its quite a happy day, and everyone ive seen has a smile as wide as christmas day. I wonder if we'll all get a day off on this sad sad day.
I can remember having a whip round every Thursday a work, we also took in food parcels,on the Friday the lads from the Manor would come and collect them, these lads were our friends and neighbours and what Thatcher and her cronies did to them was unforgiveable,we don't have a whip round today we have foodbanks instead,this lot in power now are just as despicable as she was,I can console myself in the thought that it will be a lot hotter were Thatchers going than it was on the coal face,I'll raise a glass tonight and curse the bitch,
I think you'll find it was the men and women doing the fighting that 'won the war'. It was a politically convenient conflict for Thatcher, it helped her to thrust Britain back onto the world stage and helped her deviate attention from the terrible poll ratings she was getting at home.
I've never doubted the woman's intelligence, she was a political heavyweight and weighed up most decisions brilliantly to divide her opponents and attract just enough support to keep the Tories in power. She was massively influential and we all still live in the shadow of the decisions she made.
But I hated her for her policies towards the people of the North and hated her for her support of Pinochet, the Apartheid regime in South Africa and her blatant covering up police wrong doing in the miners strike, Hillsborough etc. Those Tories who are praising her today all miss out those huge negatives about her legacy, almost as if they don't think that they are important.
I am not happy that she has died. To me it's an irrelevance. She and her supporters won and are still winning today. My side of the argument roundly lost. Her death changes nothing to me.
It was brave Prince Andrew that won the war.
I think a few episodes of Spitting Image should be shown,for a mark of respect.
I completely understand. My initial reaction when I heard was a cold-hearted feeling of anger towards the woman. Then I settled down and realised that her dying doesn't change anything.
I would rather have seen her properly held to account for the decisions she made whilst she was alive than have her die of old age and never be held to account.
In a way she became untouchable because she wasn't a well woman for the majority of her post political life. She was allowed to make her decisions then disappear from public life and never really have to answer for them. On a personal level I'm sorry for her that she didn't have a healthy last part of her life, but in a way it has protected her legacy because she was off limits and died without being held properly to account.
I remember the lads from Parkside taking food parcels into the Legh Arms trying to sell them on for a couple of pints, she wanted revenge on the miners for bringing the previous tory government down, as well as privatisation, mortgages through the roof, poll tax all down to her, she did let you buy your own council house!!!!
"you dont need to win trophies to be successful..........."
Sir Rafael Benitez
Thirty years too late but a good day nonetheless.
Don't get me wrong, I am a longtime member of the Labour Party, I grew up down the road from Sutton Manor colliery and I hated everything that she stood for. I don't feel any emotion towards her and I would have loved to have seen her have a horrible retirement having to defend all of her reprehensible actions on a regular basis. For me it's all about regrets that she never had to do that, and that's why her dying means nothing to me. It's a horrible thing for me to say given her mental issues late in life, but I think she got away with it and she got the easy way out.
Blair has to live with Iraq and some of his policies everywhere he goes years after he quit as PM. Brown will have to as well, as will Cameron and anyone else who follows him. They will all have their records analysed and critiqued but will have to personally answer for them and feel the wrath of those who disagreed with them or were personally affected by them. Thatcher didn't, she got away with it really. That annoys me.