Thatcher dead

[dazdon]

She could have died in a boating accident and made us all go ahhhh :-)

 

[cbeebies is poo]

If my reply to Rascal post..

You missed the protection and knowledge of pedo jimmy sav and all the other slime she had in her circle of friends

 

[kaz7]

She could have died in a boating accident and made us all go ahhhh :-)

only a flipping tory could die in a suite at the ritz!

 

[Rascal]

She could have died in a boating accident and made us all go ahhhh :-)

only a flipping tory could die in a suite at the ritz!

Yeah they usually die dressed in stockings with things up there arse.

 

[Rascal]

And to think some of the people in this thread moan about the Mancini thread..........hypocrites........you know who you are!

WTF has that to do with anything?

 

[Skashion]

And to think some of the people in this thread moan about the Mancini thread..........hypocrites........you know who you are!

Why do these people never have names. I always wonder.

 

[kaz7]

And to think some of the people in this thread moan about the Mancini thread..........hypocrites........you know who you are!

Why do these people never have names. I always wonder.

I think he means me!what one has to do with the other i dont know

 

[shadygiz]

1. She supported the retention of capital punishment
2. She destroyed the country's manufacturing industry
3. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws
4. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren ("Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher")
5. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)
6. She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration
7. She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)
8. She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed - the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million
9. She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands
10. The poll tax
11. She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad
12. She compared her "fight" against the miners to the Falklands War
13. She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we've been railing against for the last 5 years
14. She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS
15. She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits
16. She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA
17. She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control
18. Section 28
19. She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as "that grubby little terrorist"
20. She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers
21. She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population
22. She opposed the reunification of Germany
23. She invented Quangos
24. She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%
25. She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister
26. Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech
27. The Al Yamamah contract
28. She opposed the indictment of Chile's General Pinochet
29. Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike
30. She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%
31. BSE
32. She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession
33. She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process
34. She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa
35. Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin
36. Crime rates doubled under Thatcher
37. Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain - £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros - £1 billion
38. Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage
39. She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.
40. She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education
41. In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions
42. 21.9% inflation


For
The Miners
The Shipbuilders
The Steelworkers
The Old that Froze to Death
The Old that Couldn't Afford Food
For the Thousands Made Homeless

For
The North
The Disenfranchised Black Youth
The Lost Generation of Young
The Hillsborough families
The men dead in a conflict designed to win her an election
The men traumatised from the Falklands War
For Northern Ireland

For
my mam and dad
my Grandparents
my brother
every LGBT kid who committed suicide due to Section 28 in schools
The teachers
The victims of gaybashing which were never investigated due to pressure from her government
For the gay men stitched up and banged up for being gay

For
The women of Greenham Common who were beaten and had their kids forcibly taken into care for no reason
For the men and women assaulted in the Battle of the Beanfield
For the men and women consigned to the scrapheap
For the services that used to belong to all of us and now are badly run in the hands of the rich
For the country that used to stand for social justice and created the National Health Service
The mentally ill thrown out on the streets
The children abused in care homes and ignored or worse abused by some in her government

I will not celebrate the death of a woman who caused so much pain but i will protest loudly against her being given such a funeral paid for by the society she so despised.

i normally dont get involved in political shite, but well said that man

 

[mcmanus]

Funny how a woman taking us to war against a dictator is revered and a man taking us to war against a dictator is reviled.

Totally different situations.

Who says she is being revered? We're saying it's sad that people are glorifying death.

Dazdon states "the sooner the better" in regards to Blair.

I havent glorified in her death but i could, i hate her with a passion as i saw the hoplessness many of my fellow 18 year olds felt in 1983 when leaving school and not being able to get a job. I saw 3 of my friends die which i connect to the ravages she wreaked on the working class. If you dont give a person hope you condemn them to a life which is meaningless and 3 of my friends sought solace to the helplessness in drink and drugs and killed themselves without ever having the chance to realise there potential. They were not bad lads just lads deprived of a future and a chance to work, to grow and be happy.

I was lucky my dad got me a job but i witnessed what the dismantling of union power did to the industry i was in. I watched grown men with families in tears having recieved redundancy notifications. I saw the working practices of those who were left dismantled and i saw a union powerless to help.

I could glorify in her death, but i chose not to, instead i had a quiet beer last night early doors and reflected on lost friends and lost opportunity. Thatcherism was great for a few people, it was suicide for others.

I sometimes wonder why I read Bluemoon and the Cellar in particular. Cheers Rascal.

 

[buzzer1]

For the youngsters that didn't live through the darktimes...
Get yourselves a box set of the following.......

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