Thatcher's died according to BBC

twitter reports from stw indicate that moderation reports have skyrocketed in the past few minutes.

They surely had a policy in place for this day.

Still open?

Surprising!

A lot of the haters choose to forget what had gone on before – strikes paralyzing the economy, power cuts, rubbish piled in the streets, the UK having to be bailed out by the IMF.

Not sure how to judge her – she and her party managed to stay in power for 17 years, so someone voted for them. And rightly or wrongly, her legacy was not replaced by the last Labour government who had 13 years to try and undo the supposed damage.

I do know that my dad left the RAF after 22 years in 1979 and went on the dole. Times were hard. Under the Thatcher regime he got back on his feet, turned his – and our – lives around, and moved our expectations way beyond his own mining and ship building roots, encouraging me to have a career that saw me financially independent by the time I was 21.

That said, I now live and work in the former coal and steel communities, and I understand the hate of those directly affected, if not the trendy hangers on. And some of those I work with will admit that their union bosses were just as over zealous and ultimately destructive.

When Scargill passes on, maybe two wrongs will make a right at last

I assume the “Code Red” email has gone out to the modz. 🙂

(Or maybe in this case “Code Blue”)

Will people actually be drinking to her death this evening?

To be fair, I’ve had the odd drink towards her death as well, so at least am consistent. Also a fully paid up member of ‘Is Margaret Thatcher Dead Yet’ FB group…..

I dont think we had shit hole sink estates prior to thatcher or totally **** and ruined towns and areas

Were you actually alive in the seventies Junky?

So long to the last prime minister with principles rather than focus groups

I heard they were planning burial at sea!

Surely a state-provided funeral would be an insult to the ideology of someone who passionately believed in the free market?

Can’t see any reason whatsoever to a) complain about the thread thus far, or b) moderate it. In fact the anti Thatcherites, of which I an proud to be, have been very reasoned and moderate thus far, despite a fair level of trolling and provocation.

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.

is it..?
or have you just made that up..?

She was a very unpopular leader who’s regime caused a lot of suffering.. I know many families that were made homeless during her reign..

Is it childish to revel in her death..?
I don’t think so..
Is it really important to judge how another person feels about this piece of meat..?

I could understand your moral superiority if we were to jeer in the faces of the old woman’s relatives but we’re not..
There will be rejoicing in many corners of the British Isles over the coming days and why not..? We get precious little to celebrate at the moment, why not let it be the passing of this iconic figurehead, this personification of the oppression of the poor and needy..

It’s a bit pathetic to try to take the moral high ground over it

I’m off to a funeral on Monday, a fella passed last week that round here, was the embodiment of everything that Thatcher wasn’t..

RIP Rodge

Wow, 38 minutes old and already four pages in!

I know many families that were made became homeless during her reign..

No one is ‘made’ homeless, it’s something that happens as a consequence of other things.

Topic reported. This is just going to cause ill filling on the forum for everyone.

someone was prepared:

http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/%5B/url%5D

Don’t feel happy or sad that an old woman has died.

She may have supposedly saved us from Unions who were screwing up the country, but she delivered us into the hands of total Capitalism, and her and subsequent leaders and followers have led us to where we are today, financial crisis.

As for her followers, it must be different to be that selfish and twisted to only think of yourselves and not be able to look beyond the ideology to see the damage that she has done and the massive divisions in the UK today.

She didn’t save us from decline, she and those that followed only hastened it.

hey, i just won the deathlist sweepstake at work.

i’ll be donating my winnings to the n.u.m – it’s what she would have wanted.

Junkyard – Member

oh and of course she encouraged people to sign on the sick to get them of dole figures [ today the coalition are re assessing the long term disabled etc]

Yep, only last week the present Tory Chancellor was blaming Thatcher for some of the problems he said Britain now faced.

It’s “all Thatcher’s fault”, apparently :

Osborne distances himself from Thatcher legacy over disability benefits

……he condemned the way her government placed thousands of unemployed people on disability benefits as “quick-fix politics of the worst kind”.[/b]

Mind you he has previous on criticising Thatcher, although I get the impression that he thinks she wasn’t right-wing enough :

MPs fury as George Osborne says Margaret Thatcher was no Iron Lady

i won’t celebrate the death of a senile old woman

i will celebrate the the death of a philosophy that devastated parts of our country and codemned a genration to poverty and the death of hope and aspiration. A philosophy that put profit ahead of people and brought out the very worst in our natures.

That philosophy still exists and is still damaging us. I don’t celebrate her death, but I do wish she had never lived at all.

So long to the last prime minister with principles

Name them. This is the big lie about Thatcher. She believed in nothing except her own correctness. She had no political principles at all. There was no such thing as Thatcherism – she lacked an ideological vision and just had a grab bag of predispositions.

Shame its not Blair.

Apparently, she has just been found fit for work.

*hora reported for being a tit*

*mod reply – “this is not news”*

OK now this is MAD. The PM is cutting short his European tour of doing the business of the country… why? Has her death plunged us into some kind of crisis? What’s he going to do when he gets back, mouth to mouth? 4000 volts? Not kidding, there’s nothing for him to do here, stay where you are and do your job Dave.

I hated her.

Not celebrating the death of a senile old lady.
But I’ll raise a glass to those whose lives she ruined, whose communities she destroyed and whose hopes and aspirations she crushed.

Genuine question

If she was so bad, how did she get voted in three times?

mouth to mouth?

eeeeeuuuuuurrrggghhhh

Tyne / Wear derby this weekend. trying to enforce a mintues silence before that game would be a foolish thing to do 🙂

paaaaaaaaarrrrrrrtttttttty 8)

They surely had a policy in place for this day.

“Bong, bong, this is a staff announcement, all checkout operators moderators to the tills forums, all checkout operators moderators to the tills forums, bing bong”

She was of her time. In the absence of any clear opposition that could do any better. Besides…name me one stand up dyed in the wool honest politician? it’s a contradiction in terms.

I have no particular view on 80s politics, other than hating poll tax, but then bedroom tax is not much better, and then there was window tax a while ago too. It’s all the same old same old.

Dignity is not gained by dancing on anyone’s grave. All it does is remind everyone of the person. No ripples on the pond would be more of a snub I think.

my local paper still leading with the important stuff;

strikes paralyzing the economy, power cuts, rubbish piled in the streets, the UK having to be bailed out by the IMF.

You do know that oil quadrupled in price dont you in that decade hence the hyper inflation ect.

DO you think if OPEC did that today [ they wont as they know we would invade] that this govt would cope or you would blame them for it all.

Were you actually alive in the seventies Junky?

Great answer thanks for the help 😕

No one is ‘made’ homeless, it’s something that happens as a consequence of other things.

I knew some were planning to dance but really pin dancing now

No state funeral, but a full ceremonial funeral-like the queen mum. She is then to be cremated.

So that great legacy of privatisation. Wow.

Key elements of our infrastructure (water and power companies) now owned by the French, the Chinese, the Germans and the US. Well done there!
I don’t think she thought it through did she?

IanMunro – Member

Might have an extra pint of milk this evening.

I’m sure all STW posters are fully aware that Thatcher voted against that policy.
As for the poor miners, it was the unions that brought a close to the mines, not Thatcher.

If she was so bad, how did she get voted in three times?

So did Hitler 😉
A goodwin on a thatcher thread where I compare her to Hitler ….just when I though the day could not get any better

{ goes to check e-mail for a warning]

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.

+1.

Most insightful comment I’ve ever read on STW.

Not celebrating the death of a senile old lady.
But I’ll raise a glass to those whose lives she ruined, whose communities she destroyed and whose hopes and aspirations she crushed.

Agreed.

If she was so bad, how did she get voted in three times?

Because the Labour Party of the time was even more determined to lose and alienate its supporters than the Tories were determined to win; because the foundation of the centre left SDP split the left vote; because Murdoch was a better media tycoon than Maxwell; because the worst effects of her policies were endured by those who didn’t vote for Tories anyway (Scots, Welsh, northern English, traditional working classes, state employees), which was not by any means a coincidence…

What a disgusting thread.

A goodwin on a thatcher thread where I compare her to Hitler ….

chapeu!

Politics are not about personality.

I can understand why people would celebrate the day she was thrown out of Number 10 (and I do not celebrate that day). But to celebrate the day she died and to make some sort of retarded song and dance about enjoying an old womans death just seems sick beyond belief.

Uncollected rubbish, black outs during coal strikes, Argentina invading the Falklands, Fire Fighters striking and leaving London to burn (until the Army were sent in), the Iranian Embassy siege……

I’m glad she dealt with all of those.

She hasn’t been a figure in politics for years now except in the bitter minds of people that were likely not even born when she was in power.

What goes on on this forum generally doesn’t bother me – but I do think some of what has been said here goes beyond acceptable.

A goodwin on a thatcher thread where I compare her to Hitler ….just when I though the day could not get any better

lol!