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See Me Feel Me Touch Me Heal Me ... sorry, wrong thread

"dick head, the witch is dead"... now that has a nice ring to it

This. A lot of the posts in these Thatcher threads are about where respect is due. Hard working, dedicated teachers and other public servants come near the top of the list in my view. (And no, I'm not one)

I'm guessing that school wasn't really your thing...

It's a simple and correct point, which has been made at least 20 times in this thread, but some people still seem to struggle with it.

Sorry to disappoint you. No I wouldn't subscribe to that view at all. There is no comparison between Hitler and Thatcher and it would be childish to suggest one. I was just (pedantically, I admit) correcting the German translation and the interpretation of the childish banner in the photo.

A much closer to home (than Saville) link to child abuse can be found in Peter Morrison Peter Morrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia By all accounts an odious man who was one of Thatcher's closest aides for many years Of course she would have had not the slightest suspicion

Who knows what they wanted? The simple point is that she never had overwhelming support, as some other people have suggested. What's more interesting to me, actually, is the extent to which the dislike of Thatcher (among those who did dislike her) appears to have persisted over time, as...

Yes, and and even less than 40% of the electorate, given that there's always a proportion who don't turn out. So in 1979 the Tories got 43.9% on a 75.98% turnout, so that's 33.4% of people who could have voted for her who actually did. in 1983 the equivalent figure works out at 30.8% in 1987 it...

Like you I find it quite refreshing (and surprising) how many people on here seem to feel like I do about MT Who's for a "if you hated Thatcher, stand up" chant at the next home match?

Well, not really: the original referred to Hitler: Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer and is translated as: "one people, one empire, one leader". This poster is making a clear, if simplistic, analogy between Thatcher and Hitler (even if they got the Volk and Reich bit the wrong way round).

Exactly. People are perfectly capable of having fun and taking the p**s in parts of their life, while contributing to society, engaging in activism, holding down a worthwhile job, setting up a soup kitchen, donating a kidney, running a marathon in monkey suit .... in other parts. The point is...

Maybe you didn't read the rest of my post. I'm very happy to show good manners to people I meet or know (or indeed to people like you on message boards, at least in so far as it's reciprocated), but why should I show good manners towards the decomposing corpse of a public figure I despised, and...

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I confess I really don’t understand the argument that one should “show respect” to someone that’s died etc. Of course, I’m happy to show respect towards people that I know or come across in everyday life (in the expectation that they’ll show reciprocal respect towards me etc), and that’s just...

It's soaring up the charts as we speak. Rather a lovely song in my view, and a great film. Amazing how these surges of nostalgia can strike sometimes