Baroness Thatcher passed away

Old_Git

malcumms7898 wrote: »

Gerry Adams isn't exactly the best example of a politician.

Neither was Margaret Hilda Thatcher

piglet74

ILW wrote: »

So we now respect the opinions of self confessed terrorists?

well i will say it too then....and i am not a self confessed terrorist!!

again....he is putting it mildly!

Graham_Devon

angrypirate wrote: »

I find it amusing how Mikhail Gorbachev, a former communist leader, manages to send his condolences and a warm message whilst Ken Livingston, a would be communist leaderin the UK has to be scathing, accusing her of all the failings of today. She left office 23 years ago and things are still her fault? Seriously Ken?

Have just heard Tony Benn speaking of her. Was cringeworthy.

wotsthat

Graham_Devon wrote: »

And they say the right lacks compassion, care and understanding.....

...bit shocked as to some of comments on here really. All seemingly coming from the left leaning side of politics.

It's the internet and you've been here long enough to know exactly how this thread would go. You've played the game well though and managed to take another step up towards the moral high ground whilst simultaneously making silly comments about people's political leanings being an indicator of whether they are horrid or not.

sheffield_lad

A sad day and she will be remembered for a long long time.

For me she gave me the opportunity to own my own home. I also got a job via a YTS which these days teenagers would turn their noses up at.
For me her greatest victory was smashing the lazy unions. If we had not had Maggie there would have been decades of uncompetitive industries & we would have lost even further ground with the union way of working making us completely uncompetitive.

RIP

Old_Git

SAVING_IS_DEAD_MONEY wrote: »

Great Britain never had a better more noble statesman. RIP

incase you didn't notice ,allegedly SHE was female

Graham_Devon

WestonDave wrote: »

Whatever people thought of her politics, she at least had the strength of character to stand up for what she believed in. Many at the time and since have wailed about what she was doing, but when given the chance in 1997, did very little to reverse any of it. Do we really think that by now we'd still have an industry employing men to go down small tunnels to dig out expensive coal - if Thatcher hadn't killed it off, and market economics had somehow been overruled, the unions would have refused to work in such conditions! That's before the carbon issue raised its head.

This is key for me.

It's one thing to suggest her policies were wrong, and that's a perfectly valid route to take.

But to suggest they were wrong, and build upon them like labour did and still moan she was wrong is something else completely. I lose respect at that point.

How can you state with conviction that she was wrong, only to carry things on and build your own policies on what she left and not reverse a thing?

Fella

angrypirate wrote: »

Why the comparison to a dictator responsible for mass genocide and the 2nd world war?

And are you bitter because she treated her colleagues like dirt or are you bitter because you are at the opposite end of the political spectrum?

Perhaps he's bitter because when Labour got in power, and held it for 13 years, they didn't take the opportunity to reverse anything she did. Don't remember Labour opening too many coal mines or re-nationalising any industries.

(Apart from the banks of course, but presiding over the collapse of the entire banking system to the extent that you have to nationalise it probably isn't anything to boast about).

ILW

Think about now and what we have.

Cameron, Miliband and Clegg. She was head and shoulders above any of them.

Old_Git

she sold off the council houses and didnt reinvest in social housing .
How many on here have to pay private landlords.
For some a council house is something to aspire for .