Margaret Thatcher

[Beach Hut]

Closures happen, accept them and move on.

Why dredge out coal when you can buy it cheaper abroad ?

Stick to Service Industries - mind you they are moving to Mumbai now

 

[Trufflehound]

I will Dance on Her grave when she is Dead

Most sensible thing I've read on this thread. Would you care for a duet?

 

[Dandyman]

I didn't see too many miners outside my office with placards when a financial firm I worked for folded

Surely as a good Tory Boy you got on your bike and looked for work?

 

[Napper]

Closures happen, accept them and move on.

Why dredge out coal when you can buy it cheaper abroad ?

Stick to Service Industries - mind you they are moving to Mumbai now

I'm alright jack

shocking

 

[Rusthall Seagull]

Took us to war to win an election......lovely woman.....

 

[Beach Hut]

I'm alright jack

shocking

Oh and the North would really care about the South if in reverse would they ?

 

[Dandyman]

Oh and the North would really care about the South if in reverse would they ?

Remember the Kent miners do you or was that not in The Sun ?

 

[Beach Hut]

Remember the Kent miners do you or was that not in The Sun ?

All the lefties crawling out today.

I've got an idea - two products that are the same so let's all buy the expensive one shall we.

Economics is difficult to grasp.

 

[coventrygull]

The kind people
Have a wonderful dream
Margaret On The Guillotine
Cause people like you
Make me feel so tired
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?

And people like you
Make me feel so old inside
Please die


And kind people
Do not shelter this dream
Make it real
Make the dream real
Make the dream real
Make it real
Make the dream real
Make it real

 

[coventrygull]

All the lefties crawling out today.

I've got an idea - two products that are the same so let's all buy the expensive one shall we.

Economics is difficult to grasp.

There is no way you could call me a lefty

 

[shingle]

Thatch = Legend & True Brit

 

[Beach Hut]

It really depends on Thatcher where you were work wise etc.

I got lucky and managed to stay employed and moved others weren't so lucky.

Her politics were certainly very geographic as to whether you had success.

 

[shingle]

Took us to war to win an election......lovely woman.....

Nothing to do with a bunch of fascists illegally invading British sovereign territory then eh

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

She crushed the unions which IMHO is a good thing. Look at France where the unions rule and Tax is high. Unemployment is over 10% and unemplopyment in under 26 year olds is at 36% for men and 40% for women.

She wasn't all good though. Can't really claim to be a woman of the people.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Destroyed Britain's Coal Mining industry.

Ditto Steel, Shipbuilding, Car manufacturing, infact she despised anybody who semed to actually 'make' something, except Sir Clive Sinclair.

Sold off all the social housing in the country, now there's none left, so if you can't afford to buy your own house now & have to stay living with your parents you know who to blame.

Cut student grants to almost nothing ( Blair has just continued where she left off ).

Made a few people in the city very rich thanks to selling off nationalised industries at a knock down price.

Yeah, she stole my free milk as well.

 

[Strike]

One of the best PMs we have had in recent years. IMO.

 

[Grendel]

This mining thing is a strange old thing. everyone up in arms about miners losing their jobs but I have not seen many marches about thousands of jobs going in the financial services industry

Not so left wing friendly I suppose.

It's got nothing to do with being "left wing friendly". The mining industry was a nationalised industry that one woman almost singlehandedly destroyed, with communities built around it and generations of people for whom mining was a way of life. The financial services industry, on the other hand, is a private sector based mainly on ripping people off...mortgage lenders are hardly likely to generate huge amounts of goodwill, are they?

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Closures happen, accept them and move on.

Why dredge out coal when you can buy it cheaper abroad ?

Stick to Service Industries - mind you they are moving to Mumbai now

Yes but it is cheap open cast coal that is causing MASSIVE environmental damage, not to mention the exploitation of a cheap labour force with poor working conditions.

Hmmmmm, social concience, I think not.

 

[KPTF]

I've ticked the love box (ooh, er!) but love is too strong.

I admired may of her qualities and disliked some others. Her main legacy was of smashing the unions and the extreme left wing who had brought the country to it's knees in the 70's. She showed strong, almost tyrannical leadership at a time when our country most needed it and single handedly changed the face of British politics.

The Falklands came at a handy time for her but she didn't take any shit and was a formidable opponent at home & abroad.

On the down side, she created a divided Britain and encouraged Corporate greed. The Poll Tax was pure madness and I'm sure there are other cock ups which I've forgotten.

At the time she came to power in 79, Britain was in a complete mess and at the crossroads politically. It could have chosen the Scargill/Hatton/ Red Robbo/TUC,etc disastrous route, which would have seen Burgess Hill twinned with Minsk, or Thatch. I think it chose the right one.

 

[bhaexpress]

Didn't love her but she wasn't as bad as some people make out.