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27 pages, 4 flounces, 6 bannings.

Her ghost lives on with the current crop of nasty bastards.

Harry if anything I think they are worse.

And those on here who brayed and demanded that everyone treat her with respect seem incapable of granting anyone else the same courtesy.

Hypocrites.

And those on here who brayed and demanded that everyone treat her with respect seem incapable of granting anyone else the same courtesy.

Name names ?

Her death was a long time after her time as PM so it all seemed very much part of history.

As I have posted before my oarents are lifelong Labour supporters but where glad to see the back of Union power in the mining industry having been sick to their back teeth of constant strikes and power cuts. I remember them well too. Can you imagine kids today being told their was no wifi or mobile coverage due to a strike.

French Presidential election candidates speaking about the need (or not) for France to have their own Mrs Thatcher to bring their country "up to date" with the modern world and economic reality.

Name names ?

I can't be arsed.

Her death was a long time after her time as PM so it all seemed very much part of history.

To those who profited from her policies, maybe.
Some of us have less pleasant memories.

Harry_the_Spider - Member
Her ghost lives on with the current crop of nasty bastards.

I agree, but she did shake up the landscape of Politics as we know it.

More sense and conviction than anyone in either Conservative or Labour right now.

Can you imagine kids today being told their was no wifi or mobile coverage due to a strike.

That will surely be the very least of their worries in life!

Did this really need bringing up??

All this thread will achieve is create a lot of nastiness & bile between forum members....

Nice one OP..

Thanks I do my best x

mrlebowski - Member
Did this really need bringing up??
All this thread will achieve is create a lot of nastiness & bile between forum members....
Nice one OP..

You're right.
I'm sorry I fell for it and I apologise for any offence caused.
Any chance of blocking it?
It's sunny outside.

With our current incumbent I now know how it feels to be a scouser.

She lasted until after I'd been put on meds that stopped me drinking. I'd a single malt put by. I'll add that to her many faults. Such as closing down whole industries without a care as to what the unemployed might do. This, I feel, needs to be remembered.

There's a great line in a Stuart Maconie about miners all having to find new jobs that is something along the lines of: [I]"yeah, we've all got new jobs. We sell sandwiches to each other."[/I]

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Just because people forget that UK coal production was in general decline before, during, and after Thatcher.

So, she died 4 years; what is the point of your post?
She was a bit of a relic even when she left Downing Street.
Coal production had been in a long decline before she decided the country had enough of Scargill.
I believe that in Scargill's mind this was purely personal between him and Thatcher and he saw everything else as 'collateral damage'.
Her tough line with what was then the EEC was right and secured both respect and a powerful voice at the european table.
For most of my adult life I have been a committed labour supporter and certainly was when Thatcher was in power.
I neither mourned nor celebrated when she died.

Worth resurrecting just to bash the rail unions heads together.

Cameron and May have together done far more damage to the country, and May looks more like an evil witch than Thatcher did.

Though maybe Thatcher was a Time Lord (Lady)

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I thought Russell Brand wrote a very eloquent piece on her passing.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/09/russell-brand-margaret-thatcher

Me, I see both good and bad. I understand a lot of her actions, admire her forthright attitude, but despise a lot of her methods. It's also worth bearing in mind what was happening in the world at the time with Reagonomics too – she wasn't acting in isolation.

An amazing woman in many ways – both positive and negative – and the fact we're conversing on this thread very much reinforces that legacy.

Oh - and she influenced some bloody good music.

Thanks, just thumbing thru my Elvis Costello vinyl.

deadkenny - Member
Worth resurrecting just to bash the rail unions heads together.

Jealous

As I have posted before my oarents are lifelong Labour supporters but where glad to see the back of Union power in the mining industry having been sick to their back teeth of constant strikes and power cuts. I remember them well too.

I remember the power cuts, nipping down to the local grocers for candles and a bag of sherbert for my troubles 😉 the thing is then we may have had the odd strike and a few darker than normal nights but as a country we did own our own power generation and we could build power stations, now as a result of corporate greed and the reintroduction of the robber barons we have to go cap in hand to a communist dictatorship for funding and the French for technical assistance.

the north remembers....... 🙂

Her ghost lives on with the current crop of nasty bastards.

bit harsh,Jamba aint that bad 😉

To all the union haters...

How much holiday/sick/maternity pay do you think people had before they existed?

More sense and conviction than anyone in either Conservative or Labour right now.

I dunno, teresa may seems about as sure that she hates poor people as anyone.