Thatcher's died according to BBC

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So what did she actually do?

😆 how funny would it be if TJ was actually Maggie’s site login!

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Yes, seen that. Thought he was being very restrained 😉

My thoughts are with Tony Stark on this difficult day.

Too old too senile and too far in my past for me to feel what I expected to . Celebrating or taking any satisfaction from the inevitable passing of her life would make me feel churish .

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Cannot believe you can resist the urge to wind them upask well reasoned questions…still we should all know our limits

By then advocating the introduction of the poll tax a year early in Scotland (where they had minority support) they further exacerbated the image of being anti-Scottish. Ironically the Scottish Conservatives had been amongst the fiercest advocates of introducing the poll tax to replace the system of local government rates.

This is probably the enduring memory of Thatcher and the Tories for most Scots around my age (36) I’m old enough to remember it clearly. Funnily enough, imposing a form of taxation on one part of the country before the rest of it hasn’t been tried since.

Cannot believe you can resist the urge

It would be tempting if I didn’t know from experience that the “moderator” there would abuse his powers.

I for one look forward to reading all the accusations and stories that could not be printed while she was alive for defamation or privacy reasons.

For example, what did Thatcher and Jimmy Savile talk about on the eleven New Years Eves they spent together?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9767912/Savile-declared-love-for-Margaret-Thatcher-in-handwritten-letter.html

Apparently americans are getting confused on twitter as they think cher is dead

#thatcherisdead
That would be a better joke if you said Scousers instead of Americans.

I have no useful contribution to make.
*polishes dancing shoes*

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/scotland_conservatives_support.htm

For Hora

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election_results_in_Scotland
to this

2 hours in hell, I hear she’s closed down 3 furnaces already!

I hope her estate pays for the funeral rather than relying on the state.

wow, time flies

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/45966

Have we got Call me Dave’s reaction yet? Another fine chance to demonstrate how completely removed he is from large swathes of the country

Hora does not need actual facts for his opinions is that not apparent

he is probably on pistonhead right now where he is one of the bright knowledgeable folk 😉

Have we got Call me Dave’s reaction yet?

David Cameron @David_Cameron

Lady Thatcher didn’t just lead our country, she saved our country.

Yay! for Dave.

Call me Dave has said that she will be remembered as the greatest peacetime PM-****. Maybe if it was a choice between him and her then he’s got a point.

he is probably on pistonhead right now where he is one of the bright knowledgeable folk

No I’m on here but there are some bloody good folk on there. Just like there are some dicks too. Same as everywhere really.

I shall play “Tramp the Dirt Down” by Elvis Costello in commemoration tonight. I have been waiting so long for this opportunity.

Dave will say all the “right” things. Demand a sate funeral[ he loves her obviously] then at the subsequent riots use it to beat up the labour party/lefties shirkers etc. Labour will be put in a very difficult position now of having to be polite whilst knowing their core support is probably quite happy about this [ certainly not upset ]

Will no doubt engage in some serious politics about this to benefit his agenda /dnegrate the left.
I suspect the riots will mainly be people not alive when she reigned

Hello

Pretty much agree with all this:

But while Thatcher-hate is understandable, it is futile. Celebrating the prospect of her death has become an admittedly macabre substitute for the failure to defeat Thatcherism. The Iron Lady will die knowing her legacy is stronger than ever. It will only be worth celebrating when Thatcherism is finally purged from this country

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/not-all-socialists-want-to-dance-on-margaret-thatchers-grave-i-want-her-to-go-on-and-on-8143089.html

wow, time flies

I suspect it might be a bit late

Closing:
15/02/2014

We’re going to have riots this year regardless-the event that is said to spark the riots will have very little to do with the reasons behind them.

No I’m on here but there are some bloody good folk on there. Just like there are some dicks too. Same as everywhere really.

And if nothing else, this thread is doing a really good job of highlighting the dicks.

Good link Grum and this explains it well IMHO

A reasonable right-winger would accept that her 11-year rule opened up the greatest divisions Britain has experienced in modern times. Whether or not they regard that as unavoidable, they would realise that Thatcher-hate is just one manifestation of it. Perhaps if a Labour government had reduced the prosperous middle-classes of the Home Counties to mass unemployment and poverty, and stockbrokers desperate to save their livelihoods had been chased by police on horseback through the City of London, they would understand the bitterness. Thatcher hate is not kneejerk anti-Toryism: after all, there will be no champagne corks popping when John Major dies, and there was no bunting on display to celebrate the deaths of Ted Heath, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Macmillan or Anthony Eden.

I suspect the riots will mainly be people not alive when she reigned

There won’t be any riots. It’s a young man’s game and she’s too long out of power. Did kids know who Anthony Eden was when he died in 1977?

Not too keen on rejoicing the death of anybody. However when Tony Blair goes…

Good,evil evil bag 😆

Good,evil

Well make your mind up

rattrap. As with all data posted up- could you post a link to the site/its source and how the info was recorded?

sorry it`s hard to type when your dancing 😆

I lived through the 70s, and Britain was in serious trouble before she came to power.
I don’t agree with all her policies, but she’ll go down in history as a great leader. R.I.P.

Junkyard – Member

Good link Grum and this explains it well IMHO

I rather think this explains it well.

What the graph shows is the value of manufacturing has fallen slightly over a 40-year period. Over the same period:

GDP 1970: £139,036m
GDP 2010: £361,846m
(adjusted for inflation)

What does that tell you about the importance of manufacturing to our economy?

Wow, I go for a lunchtime ride and look what happens!

As for Thatch – end of the 70s, something had to be done about the unions…

… but not that.

– molgrips, South East Wales.