Baroness Thatcher passed away

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

@grahamdevon et al Thatcher and the tories under Cameron are not respecting people so why should she have even a shred of respect.
I don't see why I should be sensitive to the fragilities of sensitive tory voters when they have been responsible for letting Cameron and his ilk tear down our social safety net aided and abetted by their right wing media pals.
Tory neoliberalism under cameron and thatcher is a get rich scheme for the elites and the ordinairy man suffers. so no sympathy.

Tancred

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Anyone rejoicing in her death, or even who fixates on her as the cause of problems in certain parts of the country is a bit dim in my view. She was the elected prime minister, voted in fairly using the country's electoral system. If you want to hate anyone then logically it should be the 40-ish% of the electorate who voted in three successive Tory governments. She simply gave the country what it voted for. People need to deal with that rather than blaming a single politician for supposedly victimising them.


Good to see some utter balderdash from ken livingstone as well - claiming that the country had full employment in 1979 when she took power! Hilarious stuff.

She was voted in mainly because Labour was so incompetent and extreme at the time, and the SDP-Liberal alliance was a bit of a joke - the 'two Davids' were a bit like the two Ronnies.

She did represent a disturbing new change in British society - the development of greed, selfishness and ruthless individualism. The old feeling of social solidarity, present ever since 1945, simply dissipated into nothingness. The age of 'us and them' had begun.

It's a shame that Heath lost in 1974 because he was a far more clear sighted politician than Thatcher.

andy.m_2

angrypirate wrote: »

Regardless of whether you are breaking out the champagne tonight or mourning, you have to admit she puts today's policitians to shame (both Tories and Labour) in how lightweight they are.

She was a leader, the current crop are puppets for their parties...

StevieJ

I have just thought, all those tribute TV programmes :eek:

StevenMarks

Tancred wrote: »

:beer: LOVELY JUBBLY! :T:T:T

From your posts I've long thought you were a rancid piece of !!!! and your posts in this thread confirm it.

StevenMarks

piglet74 wrote: »

well my favourite story has to be....shes dead!!! and we all lived happy ever after!!

And you're a total piece of !!!! as well.

StevenMarks

wotsthat wrote: »

Are you really saying you can tell how 'nice' someone is by whether they vote labour or conservative?

Yes; if they're spouting bile and hatred then they're on the political left.

misskool

if you all choose to disagree about her politics, can we all agree that she should be remembered for being part of the team that created soft scoop ice cream?

CRISPIANNE3

A really great lady. Ex council tenants have a lot to thank her for. However was never right to sell council houses off hence the reason their is a shortage of social housing stock now. Also the average council tenant was never equipped to cope with home ownership.

Late_To_Bed

When Tony Benn dies I will be very sad.

But it won't bother me at all what the right wingers will say in celebration, I'll ignore them.

Not really sure why all the Maggie acolytes are getting so worked up. If you don't like what someone says, just ignore them.