Thatchers Dead

[Andre]

She screwed many people over and made society even more unequal between rich and poor. She promoted the yuppy generation, killed the manufacturing industries, starting the selling off of public assets.

She remained in power because of the Falklands war, weak opposition and eventually got thrown out by her own party.

Once she had done her parties bidding?

Im just wondering here

[Andre]

National holiday declared in Argentina today?

[Scrap]

Funny, two people who F88ked the miners, have Died in the same year.

[Beanz]

She screwed many people over and made society even more unequal between rich and poor. She promoted the yuppy generation, killed the manufacturing industries, starting the selling off of public assets.

She remained in power because of the Falklands war, weak opposition and eventually got thrown out by her own party.

Once she had done her parties bidding?

Im just wondering here

She did nobodies bidding but her own and ruled the Tories with an Iron Rod.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

[superheavyrhun]

I haven't seen a day where so many statements have been made that could equally have been made of Hitler or Stalin. Martin Luther King said that he would never celebrate or take joy in the death of an enemy. Frankly, I can't say that I am so forgiving, she was the figurehead for an administration that tried to bring the populus back down to the working class plebs who had no say nor interest in what the ruling class did. Her successes are all championed by those with bank balances running into seven, eight, nine and ten figures. The fact that she died at the Ritz hotel clearly shows that she had betrayed her relatively humble roots to grasp towards the upper class a long, long time ago.

I don't hope she rests in peace, I hope death gives her all of the punishment and penance that life never gave her. It is an unpleasant glee I take in her death, but I can't imagine anyone else dying that would trigger the same emotions.

[Saddo]

Funny, two people who F88ked the miners, have Died in the same year.

I thought Jimmy Savile died in 2011

[Scrap]

You are right, I always connect the two.

[armyash]

I know fuck all about politics, I have no interest in it. Ignorant I know. I'm 29, never voted, never will. The government is just another business. They will line their own pockets first.

Who ever makes decisions in this country do it for certain reasons, not always in the best interests of the majority.

All I hear is people moaning about immigration, I agree that this country should not be open to all to come and sponge off those of us who work and pay taxes. It's not just the foreigners though the Brits are at it too. Not really sure what I'm saying but if the majority of people are unhappy about things in this country why does the government not sort it out? Because there's something in it for them that's why.

Anyway back to Thatcher it seems to be Northeners and others who were part of the mining community that I hear slag her off. I don't know much about it. Unless someone has directly harmed me or my family then I won't sing and dance about their death but I have no feelings or thoughts towards it.

As my dad says what difference does it make who's in power, he's still poor and nothing much changes. Taxes and other stuff to pay will always remain so who gives a fuck?

The best things about the UK is the NHS and benefits (if they are needed). Another thing my dad says, in this country you will never starve or be left to die. So that's one thing I am thankful for.

The government can do what they want, I'll continue to pay what they tell me to pay and I'll get on with my life and enjoy it without wasting any time on political bull shit.

(this post is probably the most thought I have given to politics)


On a lighter note does this mean Thatchers daughter will now have to pay bedroom tax?

[Mars_ax]

I haven't seen a day where so many statements have been made that could equally have been made of Hitler or Stalin. Martin Luther King said that he would never celebrate or take joy in the death of an enemy. Frankly, I can't say that I am so forgiving, she was the figurehead for an administration that tried to bring the populus back down to the working class plebs who had no say nor interest in what the ruling class did. Her successes are all championed by those with bank balances running into seven, eight, nine and ten figures. The fact that she died at the Ritz hotel clearly shows that she had betrayed her relatively humble roots to grasp towards the upper class a long, long time ago.

I don't hope she rests in peace, I hope death gives her all of the punishment and penance that life never gave her. It is an unpleasant glee I take in her death, but I can't imagine anyone else dying that would trigger the same emotions.

I'd heard some bad things said about Thatcher here in the States, mainly said by liberals here who didn't like her close association with then President Reagan. I didn't have a clue that she was so loathed by her own countrymen. Now I don't feel so bad about despising Hillary "rodman" Clinton, who may run for U.S. president in 2016 and/or when Comrade Dingle-Barry finishes his 2nd term.

[Gandalf]

About fucking time; the Queen is next, and then the cycle of political and Royal bastards continues. The fact that she was such a long time leader is damning of the British populace at large, but then again it was a case of either that or Labour which was broken. Mind you, in those days Labour was about principles and representing the workers and I respect that. Her policies were the opposite and set in motion the horror that is Britain today. Unaffordable rail networks and utilities, poll tax (which exists today in various forms), mining communities decimated, manufacturing sold down the river on the garbage spiel of globalisation etc. If there was ever anyone who truly hated England, it was Thatcher.

I hope her final moments were filled with incredible pain and suffering, though I doubt there would have been very much mental anguish or regret there.

[Mark TKO]

Miles is from The Republic of Harrogate by the way

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I haven't seen a day where so many statements have been made that could equally have been made of Hitler or Stalin. Martin Luther King said that he would never celebrate or take joy in the death of an enemy. Frankly, I can't say that I am so forgiving, she was the figurehead for an administration that tried to bring the populus back down to the working class plebs who had no say nor interest in what the ruling class did. Her successes are all championed by those with bank balances running into seven, eight, nine and ten figures. The fact that she died at the Ritz hotel clearly shows that she had betrayed her relatively humble roots to grasp towards the upper class a long, long time ago.

I don't hope she rests in peace, I hope death gives her all of the punishment and penance that life never gave her. It is an unpleasant glee I take in her death, but I can't imagine anyone else dying that would trigger the same emotions.

I'd heard some bad things said about Thatcher here in the States, mainly said by liberals here who didn't like her close association with then President Reagan. I didn't have a clue that she was so loathed by her own countrymen. Now I don't feel so bad about despising Hillary "rodman" Clinton, who may run for U.S. president in 2016 and/or when Comrade Dingle-Barry finishes his 2nd term.

yeah I've got some US friends who just don't understand why she's so hated and talked about not being petty....hmmm no. They have no idea.

[Kirkland Laing]

I got a full scholarship to go to university. If I hadn't got the scholarship I'd be a builder now like my brothers. My year was the last in the country where you got the chance to win full scholarships. If I'd been a year younger I would have been fucked. Guess who it was who scrapped the scholarships programme?

My Uncle Pat worked in the coal mines till Maggie shut them. Except it wasn't Maggie that shut them, it was the fact that we could import Polish coal for half the price and Maggie just decided to stop subsidising the industry.

My Uncle John used to work in the shipyards until Maggie closed them, except it was the fact you could buy the same ship for half the money from Korea and other places.

What she should have done was try and set up some kind of new manufacturing infrastructure but instead Britain became a services/tertiary industry economy. This worked great for me when I came out of university and started work in a deregulated City, but Maggie deregulating the financial industry just means a nice time for the people at the top of that tree and soes nothing for the Uncle Johns and Pats who are too old to get one of the shit McJobs that another 200 people are going for.

Privatising the gas, telecom and trains wasn't too smart either. Now everybody can get robbed at will by the people who own those industries.

My family is a good microcosm of what happened to Britain under Maggie. Worked out great for the minority but everybody else got fucked at the drive-in.

[imp]

How did most Brits feel about Thatcher? Seems like I recall her last term as UK's Prime Minister being a rocky one.
Anyway - RIP Margaret Thatcher

she was a cunt

Harsh...but true.