Margaret Thatcher is dead
Apr 8th 2013, 1:37 pm
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Re: Margaret Thatcher is dead
As a young nurse I marched through London chanting Maggie Maggie Maggie Out Out Out!
However she's dead now R.I.P and as a woman who became the first female prime minister I admire her guts.
However she's dead now R.I.P and as a woman who became the first female prime minister I admire her guts.
Apr 8th 2013, 1:37 pm
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It was enforced hardship without any safety net or plan for what to do afterwards.
In 1986 Thatcher took a walk in the wilderness on Teesside (an area of industry that she closed down 5 years earlier) and promised to regenerate it, this is still a massive area of rubble to this day.
It broke my grandfathers heart, this was where his factory stood until he was made redundant in 1981. He was a proud man and proud of his work, he was never the same after that.
Hardship never needs to be enforced, only by those in comfortable home county villages who were miles away and didn't get to see the reality of it all.
And what we have now in the North of England is call centers offering low pay and low security, there is no manufacturing and little skilled work.
In 1986 Thatcher took a walk in the wilderness on Teesside (an area of industry that she closed down 5 years earlier) and promised to regenerate it, this is still a massive area of rubble to this day.
It broke my grandfathers heart, this was where his factory stood until he was made redundant in 1981. He was a proud man and proud of his work, he was never the same after that.
Hardship never needs to be enforced, only by those in comfortable home county villages who were miles away and didn't get to see the reality of it all.
And what we have now in the North of England is call centers offering low pay and low security, there is no manufacturing and little skilled work.
Apr 8th 2013, 1:37 pm
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Re: Margaret Thatcher is dead
Apologies for the delay responding ... I heard an hour or so ago and have been so busy ...
I am so absolutely pissed and happy.
I found some party poppers and sparklers and have been running around the yard naked.
I hope the bitch died screaming.
The Witch Is Dead.
I am so absolutely pissed and happy.
I found some party poppers and sparklers and have been running around the yard naked.
I hope the bitch died screaming.
The Witch Is Dead.
Apr 8th 2013, 1:40 pm
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If those industries were viable they would have survived. Uneconomic industries can only be propped up for so long. Same as car industry here in Australia, it will die eventually, $300 million going into Holden would be better spent on reskilling programs and grants to new enterprises. What needs to happen is adaption and regeneration.
Apr 8th 2013, 1:44 pm
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She increased unemployment rates by the MILLIONS, double digit interest rates close to 15%+, increased homelessness and recessions not to mention other poll tax which caused such violence....it just goes on and on.
Apr 8th 2013, 1:47 pm
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In conclusion I can proudly say that (in her own words) I am a proud 'enemy within'.
Apr 8th 2013, 1:50 pm
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I feel as if I should feel compassion. I am feeling about as much compassion as she felt for the miners.
The only sadness I feel is for the communites she destroyed and the legacy of a "me me me" society that she left behind.
I cannot think of a single thing she did that I liked (though I am feeling pretty good about what she did today).
Cheers,
DagBoy (who?)
The only sadness I feel is for the communites she destroyed and the legacy of a "me me me" society that she left behind.
I cannot think of a single thing she did that I liked (though I am feeling pretty good about what she did today).
Cheers,
DagBoy (who?)
Apr 8th 2013, 1:57 pm
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RIP Great Lady, You were the strongest leader The former Great Britian had since Sir Winston Churchill, Sleep Well
Apr 8th 2013, 2:03 pm
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I feel as if I should feel compassion. I am feeling about as much compassion as she felt for the miners.
The only sadness I feel is for the communites she destroyed and the legacy of a "me me me" society that she left behind.
I cannot think of a single thing she did that I liked (though I am feeling pretty good about what she did today).
Cheers,
DagBoy (who?)
The only sadness I feel is for the communites she destroyed and the legacy of a "me me me" society that she left behind.
I cannot think of a single thing she did that I liked (though I am feeling pretty good about what she did today).
Cheers,
DagBoy (who?)
Wow now here's a blast from the past! 
Apr 8th 2013, 2:04 pm
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They had better be careful where she's buried and have it guarded or she will NOT rest in peace - there's millions of angry brits out there who'd love to...
Apr 8th 2013, 2:08 pm
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columnist Kevin Maguire writes that while Margaret Thatcher's children deserve our sympathies, there are no tears for Thatcherism.
"Opponents, including me, remember the poverty, riots, mass unemployment, strife, grotesque growth of inequality, seeds of the banking crisis and destruction of the mining industry and communities.
"Opponents, including me, remember the poverty, riots, mass unemployment, strife, grotesque growth of inequality, seeds of the banking crisis and destruction of the mining industry and communities.
Apr 8th 2013, 2:19 pm
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In 1979 the winter of discontent, three-day week, beer & sandwiches, wildcat strikes, IMF bailout, and on the edge of hyper-inflation. The country was bankrupted by a Labour government in 1979 and then repeated again by surprise, surprise another Labour government under Gordon 'no return to boom & bust' Brown
Apr 8th 2013, 2:26 pm
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I feel as if I should feel compassion. I am feeling about as much compassion as she felt for the miners.
The only sadness I feel is for the communites she destroyed and the legacy of a "me me me" society that she left behind.
I cannot think of a single thing she did that I liked (though I am feeling pretty good about what she did today).
Cheers,
DagBoy (who?)
The only sadness I feel is for the communites she destroyed and the legacy of a "me me me" society that she left behind.
I cannot think of a single thing she did that I liked (though I am feeling pretty good about what she did today).
Cheers,
DagBoy (who?)