rajj

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=dG3xmjDVYOQ

Amazulu

WTF?

I don't know you, you know nothing about me and I've never had a problem with you, so why the need to come out with crap like this? I posted 2 short, uncontroversial lines on this topic and you decide to start in on me?

Don't go looking for shit and you won't find it.

Amazulu

Scotch and bitter?

I thought that they were types of drink

Scossie

First time I've surfaced on this forum for many a year mate, but I always said to myself that I would look for a post from you when this momentous night finally came about! So enjoy your partying. I certainly am! Ding Dong!!

Kapri

So with Jimmy Saville dead and now Maggie too, that's two people gone who liked to screw miners

Vash the Stampede

My grandfather was an old school Tory who championed Thatcher's policies and went to his grave arguing she was a gift to the nation. Having said that, even he drew the line at the Poll Tax.

Thatcher's legacy will remain divisive. She aggressively accelerated Britain's integration with Europe and set a new standard for economic rationalism which was so compelling that even Labour embraced it.



She shaped an era, a nation, an economy, a war, and a society.

hoofie2002

Nailed - the writing was long on the wall for many industries in the UK; look at the state of the car industry in the late 70s. They were killed off by a combination of crap management; sod-all investment and a union power base whose primary motivation was the class struggle. Members were only there to rubber stamp the decisions. Ironically now the UK shows that it can build excellent cars in volume but it took an almost complete destruction of the industry to do it.

Thatcher got a lot of things wrong but how the left can look back and see 1979 as some kind of workers nirvana is beyond me. As for miners saying the jobs dissapeared for their children - why would you want your son to spend his life down a coal mine ?

I seem to recall the left was too busy ripping itself apart whilst the labour party presented policies that the voters took one look at and said "I don't think so!"

On the ABC it was reported that the Federal and State Governments now subsidise car production in OZ to the tune of 50k per worker; its pissing money away on plants building cars no-one wants to buy, here or abroad. The country would be better served by pouring that money into retraining people or providing assistance to industries that at least have a fighting chance. In the years I have been here I do not know anyone personally who has bought a Commodore or a Falcon and to be honest I'd struggle to think of anyone who buys an Aussie made vehicle.

Why don't we have whip round for all the old comrades who can now return triumphantly to the UK and who obviously couldn't manage it when the saviours of the proleteriat Blair and Brown were in charge?

nickyjohnt

I have noticed since my last post no one has said there has been a better or stronger leader.... Why is that then???

Bernieboy

A joyous day indeed,**** the detox i'm going to the boozer

Kelli28

I don't have much to say of the dead so I'll just let oz say it for me instead!

Ballys

The Fight For History
from WE VALIDATE! by MJ Hibbett & The Validators



They're saying Ronald Reagan was the Master Of Diplomacy
'Cos he ended the Cold War with only Thatcher there to help him
They say he led the world in times that were more optimistic
I don't know about you but that is not how I remember it
The constant crushing certainty of nuclear oblivion
Was ended by East Germans in Berlin not politicians
When warmongers seek credit for a peace they didn't want
They've one eye on the history books, the other's on the clock

Well I was there and I will not forget
The fight for history begins the day that Thatcher is dead

The two-faced slip-on socialists who helped her stay in power
Are riding round in company cars charging a thousand pounds an hour
To reassure the wage slaves who think they're the wage slaves' masters
That they're modern and creative whilst behind the drums beat faster
And we've all got to pretend that we now like Edwina Currie
And that Steven Norris wasn't a corrupt adulterous bully
All the smiling lying psychopaths we finally deposed
Are now creeping into reality TV and phone-in shows

Well I was there and I will not forget
The fight for history begins the day that Thatcher is dead

Down in Soho all the preening pamphlet-headed peacocks
Try to make out it's iconic wearing Council-hair and pop-socks
And paint the Eighties as an age of decadence and glamour
As if the miners' strike, the poll tax and BSE never happened
As if Section 28 was never passed into the law
As if Osama Bin Laden wasn't paid to fight our wars
As if the institutionalised weren't turfed onto the streets
Into a new society they said did not exist

Well I was there and I will not forget
The fight for history begins the day that Thatcher is dead
And if you think it's past and put to bed
You wait until the wave of lies the day that Thatcher is dead

We will fight for history on the day that Thatcher's dead

Geeeeeezer

YOU ARE PATHETIC!!

Pollyana

Please lets keep the thread going at an acceptable level. Do not attack other posters.

Pollyana

You two came to mind at once, off partying together were you?

Pollyana

Welcome back guys! Odd what brings people back to Ye Old Forume isn't it