Margaret Thatcher
Aug 26th 2005, 7:43 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by fatbrit
Yep -- don't think she liked the railways much. But I believe it was actually threepence halpenny she got for it after clouting them with her handbag.
Aug 26th 2005, 7:48 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by snowbunny
But they stole a couple of loose ha'pennies that fell out of the handbag as she whacked them with it....so the net cost was maybe tuppence ha'penny.
Hey, we joke but there was gold in them there hills! Many made a tidy little sum on her privatizations. It was known as a tax rebate for those who could read and write properly. I think if she had just done the one (or possibly even 2 terms) and gone, she may have been looked on more favourably as a PM who gave Britain a well-needed boot up the arse. But once she thought she was the reincarnation of Churchill and the madness started to take over, it was a scary bloody ride.
Aug 26th 2005, 8:00 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by fatbrit
But once she thought she was the reincarnation of Churchill and the madness started to take over, it was a scary bloody ride.
well, the trains don't move very much. that is a point.
Aug 26th 2005, 8:33 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by kevntrace
She was in power during my school years, so I didn't pay a lot of attention to politics at that point (still don't pay that much attention now
).And then there were Baker days
Aug 26th 2005, 8:36 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by Wintersong
Mine too. I remember a lot of strikes and days off. Dinner ladies went on strike, teachers went on strike. Everyone went on strike. We all loved it. Not shore iff my edyookayshun sufferd mutch.
And then there were Baker days
And then there were Baker days
Aug 26th 2005, 8:41 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by izibear
Baker days?
All the kids got the day off school, the teachers had to go in and do training.
Aug 26th 2005, 8:49 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
She has left a living legacy, her son.
Aug 26th 2005, 8:52 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by tony126
She has left a living legacy, her son.
What a fine legacy for any woman to leave. She must be so proud.
Aug 26th 2005, 8:55 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by fatbrit
Hey, we joke but there was gold in them there hills! Many made a tidy little sum on her privatizations. It was known as a tax rebate for those who could read and write properly. I think if she had just done the one (or possibly even 2 terms) and gone, she may have been looked on more favourably as a PM who gave Britain a well-needed boot up the arse. But once she thought she was the reincarnation of Churchill and the madness started to take over, it was a scary bloody ride.
genius.
Aug 26th 2005, 8:58 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by Manc
selling something that belonged to the general public, back to the general public.
genius.
genius.
Kept the plebs happy.
Got rid of much of the union problem for her.
Provided income for the exchequer.
It was the days of "creative accounting".
Unfortunately genius and madness are near synonyms.
Aug 26th 2005, 9:24 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by Wintersong
Kenneth Baker introduced teacher training (INSET) days. They were known as Baker days when they first came in. Now they're just called INSET (In-Service Training).
All the kids got the day off school, the teachers had to go in and do training.
All the kids got the day off school, the teachers had to go in and do training.
Aug 26th 2005, 9:25 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by fatbrit
It was the days of "creative accounting".
Aug 26th 2005, 9:34 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by snowbunny
Enron must have read her biography.
Aug 26th 2005, 10:13 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
Originally Posted by fatbrit
Yep -- don't think she liked the railways much..
She didn't like the NHS either - because she didn't use it. (Remember that famous quote about going into hospital 'at a time of my own choosing' when she needed to get her varicose veins done?)
I don't think she saw much point in state schools either - because ... etc etc.
As for helping working mothers - she did it all on her own didn't she, so why can't everyone? Another famous quote about women always having made their "own arrangements" for childcare, and they can bloody well continue to do so... (Someone remind me, wasn't she married to a millionaire?)
The long and the short of it, if she didn't need it, why would anyone else? If she could be self-sufficient, why can't everyone?
Bloody cow!
Aug 26th 2005, 10:29 am
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Re: Margaret Thatcher
She defeated Galtieri and Scargill so if there were nothing else we should be thankful.
