[Closed] Thatcher's died according to BBC

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Ben Thatcher?

Yep, sky carrying it now - dead

Yes, BBC reporting Margaret Thatcher, first woman prime minister of the UK - who rescued the nation from the destructive socialism of the 1970's, has died this morning.

Grab your dancing shoes

If this is so then I'm going to shant tonight!

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who rescued the nation from the destructive socialism of the 1970's

Damn that destructive socialism!

Here we go.

Before posting, try imagining that perfectly innocent members of her family are reading this. 💡

where's elfinrudeboythxfred?

Wow just wow

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

One hour til this thread's closed.

Can I have 19 minuites in the thread closure sweepstake?

apparently so - gonna be a bust day/night for the mods

I shall neither mock nor mourn

Woohoo day has taken an upturn.

Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.

Wow just wow

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

I agree.

Blimey. We were only talking about *that* website at work yesterday. 😕

Twitter's going to be interesting today.

Yes, BBC reporting Margaret Thatcher, first woman prime minister of the UK - who rescued the nation from the destructive socialism of the 1970's, has died this morning.

The BBC reported some of that, the trolling bit's all your own.

At least she annoyed the French like no PM before or since...

Cheers

Danny B

RIP :0(

One hour til this thread's closed.

Certainly peed on Nick Cleggs big local election campaign launch today! He really cant get anything right!

This will no doubt bring out the best in the STW collective 🙄

*turns off computer*

It's not going to be a pleasant day on the internet for the rest of it.

philconsequence - Member
where's elfinrudeboythxfred?

I think thx has joined the permabanned club. 😕

Pigface - Member
Wow just wow

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

I most definitely was not a fan but I will not be celebrating. End of an era?

Condolences to her family.

Luckily for Mrs T, Call-me-Dave & Gideon have ressurected her disposition for stigmatising the unwell, poor and unemployed.

one thing I've never understood about Thatcher for all the hate she gets, if she was that bad, why on earth did the population elect her 3 times?!

I always thought I'd be putting my dancing shoes on when I heard this but celebrating her death feels like it would make me a smaller person and have no meaning given how she was in the past few years anyway.

She did a lot of things I disagreed with at a quite fundamental level but can I summon the energy to still feel that burning anger of 30 years ago? Possibly not.

Before posting, try imagining that perfectly innocent members of her family are reading this

as innocent as Mark Thatcher?

Can I have 19 minuites in the thread closure sweepstake

Probably best to go on time closed rather than elapsed time

I'm going with 1.13pm

Blimey I've just got 2 cases of beer and a case of Veuve. Big hole in that lot tonight!

In before the thread close.

Great politician, had true conviction, first woman in that post, turned Britain around from the basket case it was under militant unionism.

There hasnt been another like her since....up there with those from a previous time like Churchill, Attlee etc etc

Gonna be some sore heads in the morning-doesn't every working men's club in the north of England have a fund for this day 🙂

Unfortunately the toxic and corrosive legacy she bequeathed to the nation has now been turbo-charged by this pair of braying, inhumane ****s!!!

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RIP

Wow just wow

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

Cant agree more.

I miss politicians of the old days, Foot, Thatcher, Tebbit, Skinner etc because even if you disagreed with their politics at least you knew what they stood for unlike todays shower of sh......

Pity the damage is long been done...

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.

It feels like christmas. 😀

MrSmith - Member

as innocent as Mark Thatcher?

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

If only it had been forty years sooner.

Pigface - Member
Wow just wow

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

That's compassionate socialists for you!

In before the funeral.

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

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

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.

Bring me some cake !

#shebedeed

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!!! 🙄

Only 30 years too late....

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

Great politician, had true conviction

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

She wasn't a bad pm by all accounts..

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

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

Friends?....

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

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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!

...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.

I'm out celebrating tonight
Good riddance

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.

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.

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.