Baroness Thatcher passed away

holidaysforme

londondealer wrote: »

I'm finding all the Internet posts rejoicing in her death really very sick. To relish in the fact that somebody has died like MT very odd. Peeps time to have a word with yourselves.

Ahh bless. I'm sure you'll get over it;)

PaulF81

holidaysforme wrote: »

Ahh bless. I'm sure you'll get over it;)

Yep, when every scrote claiming DLA/benefits illegally is out picking veg in the pouring rain for 40 hours a week on minimum wage, then I will dance a jig.

andy.m_2

holidaysforme wrote: »

Ahh bless. I'm sure you'll get over it;)

Just like you did with MT?
Oh wait, you haven't.

Irony much?

Thrugelmir

Tancred wrote: »

I love it when a little Tory pr**k gets excited.

Anyway, I'm not really left wing at all. I just despise everything that Thatcher stood for: greed, selfishness, little-Englanderness (if there is such a word), pomposity, sanctimoniousness, stubbornness, obstinacy, vindictiveness, etc, etc. I could go on and on.

Then perhaps you should leave England and find somewhere more appropriate to live. There's freedom of movement in Europe. I'm sure you'll find somewhere with views that'll match your own.

andy.m_2

Thrugelmir wrote: »

I'm sure you'll [Tancred] find somewhere with views that'll match your own.

Not anywhere real, unless there is a new country about to be accepted into the EU, internetheroland

bigheadxx

Tancred wrote: »

The unions did go too far, but then again a lot of people back then were getting derisory wages while the big bosses grew fat on massive bonuses etc. Are you saying that it's OK to be greedy if you are lucky enough to be a company boss but not if you are a worker? As for lack of competitiveness, this was largely due to sterling being too strong a currency.

It was largely due to outdated practices, protection of obselete "craft" jobs that lost us orders and finished industries off.

And I also can't accept that there is no such thing as society - society is people, and people exist. We interact with each other - family, friends, colleagues, etc. This is society.

That is exactly what she said.

Mozette

CRISPIANNE3 wrote: »

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.

So actually in your opinion ex-council tenants (who you seem to have a dim view of) don't really have much to thank her for?
Certainly people today who might need social housing, but oh, there isn't any, have bog all to thank her for.

Generali

olly300 wrote: »

Do you know what's good about her?

People actually have strong feelings about her and her policies.

How many politicians of today if they died 20+ years later are people going to have such strong feelings about?

Tony Blair? - Some people will have some feelings of annoyance.

Gordon Brown? David Cameron? - Definitely no.

From the Interweb somewhere:

Now Lady Thatcher has died, John Major is our greatest living politician.

PaulF81

I prefer the term community to society. The latter has connotations of commune-style 60's council flats, massive state expenditure, non-jobs and people living hand to mouth out of the states pockets.

The former, nice villages, helping old people with their shopping and across the street, neighbourhood watch and despising socialists.

Ionkontrol

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-04-08/revellers-in-brixton-celebrate-thatchers-death/