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  • Thatcher's died according to BBC
  • v8ninety
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    Pity the damage is long been done…

    gmex619
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    I think its sad Baroness Thatcher has died.

    She wasn’t a bad pm by all accounts. Atleast good enough to get re-elected. Some people must like her.

    uselesshippy
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    It feels like christmas. 😀

    sbob
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    MrSmith – Member

    as innocent as Mark Thatcher?

    I thought my post was perfectly clear as it was written. 😉

    ohnohesback
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    If only it had been forty years sooner.

    deviant
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    Pigface – Member
    Wow just wow

    Hated the woman but seems churlish to celeberate an old senile ladies death.

    That’s compassionate socialists for you!

    IanMunro
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    In before the funeral.

    tiggs121
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    She was an absolute f****g horror!

    Good for her own kind but did nothing for the rest of us.

    ononeorange
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    Trying not to be disrespectful, but deviant please don’t even begin to compare her with a true great like Attlee.

    Anyway, in before the close. 13.09 for me.

    grtdkad
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    Bring me some cake !

    #shebedeed

    binners
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    She wasn’t a bad pm by all accounts.

    Yeah… all of us up north who lived through the malicious destruction of our communities as an act of willful political vandalism, and spiteful revenge thought she was absolutely ****ing great!!! 🙄

    footflaps
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    Only 30 years too late….

    damo2576
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    Seriously why the hate? For closing the mines? Standing up to unions? Possibly with hind sight the big bang?

    konabunny
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    Great politician, had true conviction

    Possibly the first until she was stabbed in he back by her colleagues, certainly not the second unless you count stubbornness and conviction as the same.

    piedidiformaggio
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    gonna be a bust day/night for the mods

    Are they having a ‘wear fake boobs day’?

    Oh, and Stoner, you’re still reading this thread aren’t you!

    aa
    Free Member

    i’ll be pouring a glass of whiskey and doing a little dance on the streets of my former mining village tonight.

    Goodbye to bad rubbish.

    I’ll give her no more kind thoughts than she gave to countless communities up and down the country. I will stop short of finding out where shes buried however.

    ohnohesback
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    The Poll Tax, and sh*tting on the poor.

    unklehomered
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    Have they cut the head off, you know, just to be sure?

    ononeorange
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    You could add the VAT hike in the midst of the deepest recession; the deliberate forced steelworks closures; Al-Yamammah, the Poll Tax….arrrgh. I said I wouldn’t be dragged in!

    grtdkad
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    She wasn’t a bad pm by all accounts. Atleast good enough to get re-elected. Some people must like her.

    …it didn’t feel that way growing up in the North East in the 70s and 80s – she was a hideous, soul-less woman.

    nashwaymule
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    She was our greatest post 2nd world war PM by far.;
    Yes she divided the nation but she took power back from the unions after they had been pandered to for years she put the UK back on the map and was respected world wide. RIP Maggie.

    IanW
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    I liked Maggie she did a good job that needed doing, over the years I found her most fervent critics to be kids who couldn’t possibly remember how crap the country was before she was elected.

    RIP.

    Mr_Mojo
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    As expected the Thatcher haters are out. Most were probably too young when she was PM to really know what she did or like at the time.

    hora
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    RIP. Sad news and condolences to her family and friends.

    ernie_lynch
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    She wasn’t a bad pm by all accounts. Atleast good enough to get re-elected. Some people must like her.

    So bad that she was sacked by her own party whilst PM. Now that’s something which doesn’t happen very often.

    barkm
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    just a human being at the end of the day, not sure I could ever be so disrespectful and small minded as some. But that’s just life I guess 🙂

    admired her courage.

    konabunny
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    She wasn’t a bad pm by all accounts..

    This thread is going to be a trollfest. You’re going to need to do better than that in order to stand out.

    ohnohesback
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    Hammer the f*cking stake in just to be sure.

    binners
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    RIP. Sad news and condolences to her family and friends.

    Friends?….

    she’s on her way to join the only ones she ever had

    JonR
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    It is churlish to celebrate the death of a fellow human being so I will just say that I am less upset than I would be at the death of any other person in history.

    BobaFatt
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    It does seem a little childish to revel in someones death.

    It’s becoming pretty bloody evident that the policies that are being pushed through at the moment have a striking similarity to what was pushed upon us back in the 80’s…..maybe we should demonise the party that was in power at the time rather than the person.

    I remember an interview with SAS man John McAleese who was one of the guys who stormed the Iranian embassy, he described Thatchers orders clearly…….kill the terrorists. Fair play, i’d like to see any of those Eton wetbags give that order now without shiting their pants

    footflaps
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    Most were probably too young when she was PM to really know what she did or like at the time.

    or old enough to see and understand exactly what she did…

    geordiemick00
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    as a ten year old I endured the miners strike in South East Northumberland’s mining towns. I can vividly remember having to drag bags of coal scraped off Newbiggin beach and open cast workings, going to the Labour club on saturday mornings for packed lunches for food for the weekend. I can remember having sweet FA for christmas because there was no money coming in. Everyone on our estate was in the same boat and nearing the end of the strike my step dad caved in and went back to work and we endured months of hostility because of this…

    Whilst I understood and respect she had balls of steel, i can’t help feel she robbed me of some of my childhood.

    marcus7
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    In before… as they say, i cant really say i care although i would say its a sad day for her family and friends and i know what that feels like.

    footflaps
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    It is churlish to celebrate the death of a fellow human being so I will just say that I am less upset than I would be at the death of any other person in history.

    I’m prepared to make an exception in her case and will be celebrating in style tonight!

    deviant
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    …it didn’t feel that way growing up in the North East in the 70s and 80s – she was a hideous, soul-less woman.

    Another one who feels UK industry should have been subsidised….at what point should it have stopped?….when the UK was bankrupt?….blame rampant unionism instead.

    easygirl
    Full Member

    I’m out celebrating tonight
    Good riddance

    TuckerUK
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    Our second greatest PM, and the only two policies of hers I can think of that I really didn’t care much for were abolishing the fairest tax system we ever had (the Poll Tax), and letting people buy OUR council houses at half price.

    On the plus side:

    Breaking the back of the unions that were constantly holding the country to ransom
    The Channel Tunnel
    Concorde
    The Falklands
    Taming of the US and the subsequent fall of Communism
    Returning British rail to it’s prewar privatised state.

    mrmo
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    thinking about this,

    Thatcher, i think she actually had an opinion, unlike most modern politicians. Whether it was right or wrong is a different issue.

    As for Steel and Coal, she just delivered the Coup de Grace, they had been screwed by ALL politicans for decades. Think of the high quality of british cars in the 70’s….

    Blame her for the beginning of financial deregualtion, for the poll tax etc. But the closure of the mines and of the steel works, well it was inevitable. It was what she didn’t do in the aftermath that matters.

    hora
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    It does seem a little childish to revel in someones death.

    Aye Decorum. Its the mark of the man or woman who revels in another death and more keenly if you didn’t know this person.

    If I’m still alive when Messers Brown and Blair pass away- trust me I won’t be making childish comments.

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