Baroness Thatcher Dead

[chrisd]

I believe that the powerful union leaders of that time killed more British industry than Maggie ever did.
They were nearly all communists and more in control of the country than our elected leaders.

Correct Doon! where would we be if she hadn't stood up to the likes of Robinson and Scargill who were so much more militant than the unions leaders of today?

No leader is going to be liked by all, but, as someone who goes back to times before Harold Wilson, Maggie did much to give us all the living standard we have today which I can assure the younger members was pretty poor when she came to power.

 

[Rooter]

Sure are a lot of people with nothing to say!!

RIP Maggie.

 

[Iaing]

She will divide the country in death as she did in life.

Can't say that I feel one way or the other about her death.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Her final years in office were quite farcical. Any minister who disagreed with her got booted and she was left with the likes of Jonathan Aitken and Neil MacFarlane [?] [and we all know what happened to them!]
If the Tories were not so inbred they would have given Hessaltine his chance and I think British politics would have been totally different.

 

[Ethan]

I have no doubt that she would turn around our floundering economy and nanny state at present.

God bless oor Maggie.

She helped create our floundering economy, and contributed to the world economic crisis by establishing London as a place where the US banks could come and do deals they couldn't do in the US. She also started the process of selling off the NHS and burdening hospitals and schools throughout the country with crippling and unsustainable PFI bills. Monetarism as an economic policy has now been shown to have failed.

The nanny state is just an obsession of the Daily Mail and its readers.

 

[stevie_r]

I believe that the powerful union leaders of that time killed more British industry than Maggie ever did.
They were nearly all communists and more in control of the country than our elected leaders.

is the correct answer

 

[stevie_r]

The boys have just spoken about this in work, I didnt particularly like tepid milk anyway

I do when it's free

 

[bunkered]

I hope she's going somewhere warm

I very warm.

 

[Wildrover]

I was in the armed forces and she did do some good for us, but I'm also from South Yorkshire and grew up during the miner's strike and I can never forgive her for that. Whole communities totally decimated to close profitable pits as coal was not the fuel of the future. Nearly 30 years later and we have to import most of our coal from Germany and Poland whilst the former pit villages have never recovered. I say bury her down Maltby Pit which closed last week. I have held back on what I really think of her as I do not want a ban / infraction.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

I just found this on twitter and thought it sums up my thoughts


Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister when I was born
And on hearing of her death, the country seems to be torn
Between those have respect for an old lady’s passing
And those who are joyous, and scathingly, almost laughing.

For someone who’s been out of power for over twenty years
It seems somewhat callous for her death to meet with cheers.
Political issues naturally cause quite a lot of debate
But after a stroke, aged 87, I feel she doesn’t deserve the hate.

This lady took the top job, in a body made by men;
She’s a significant historical figure, and we’ll never see her like again.
You don’t have to respect the politics, you don’t even have to care
But if you have nothing nice to say, it’s more respectful not to share.

So my condolences to her family, at this most saddening hour.
Baroness Thatcher showed that girls don’t have to be afraid of power.
We can step up and have opinions, and even run the country too;
This lady wasn’t for turning, and she just did what she had to do.

................,,

 

[patricks148]

She helped create our floundering economy, and contributed to the world economic crisis by establishing London as a place where the US banks could come and do deals they couldn't do in the US. She also started the process of selling off the NHS and burdening hospitals and schools throughout the country with crippling and unsustainable PFI bills. Monetarism as an economic policy has now been shown to have failed.

The nanny state is just an obsession of the Daily Mail and its readers.

at last some one who understands the economic impact she had on the country..and your forgot, selling off all the NI at a fraction of there worth to her hubbys mates on the stock market!

 

[Kellfire]

Just too early for me to truly understand the impact she had on the nation but everyone I meet who did know her policies holds a strong view one way or another.

Clearly a flawed person but holding one person responsibly for an entire government's decisions and actions is short sighted and petty.

 

[Dellboy]

R I P Maggie, a true leader and a fine PM, God Bless You Girl.

 

[rosecott]

She wasn't a Stalin, Mao, Saddam, Bin Laden or Gaddafi. She was a frail old lady, loved by her family and respected by many.

 

[Hobbit]

I remember struggling through the strikes of the mid and late 70's. Of being told by Union reps what jobs I could and couldn't do, and who I had to know. Of seeing a Union rep drive up to a picket line and say "keep it up lads," then drive off.

I didn't agree with some of what she did but I will be forever grateful for creating a workplace that didn't have a Union rep watching your every move, who rollocked you for "working too hard and killing the job."

Whatever your politics, would it really hurt you to give her some rest in peace?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

R I P Maggie, a true leader and a fine PM, God Bless You Girl.

Someone called Dellboy saying Maggie was great!
Who is next Loadsamoney?

 

[SocketRocket]

She also started the process of selling off the NHS and burdening hospitals and schools throughout the country with crippling and unsustainable PFI bills. Monetarism as an economic policy has now been shown to have failed.

The nanny state is just an obsession of the Daily Mail and its readers.

You are blaming the wrong people there. It was John Major as Prime Minister that started using PFis, Maggi had gone by then. The scheme was massively accelerated by the last labour government. I guess you would prefer a regime like North Korea's , I think they probably have some spare places there if you would feel more at home.

 

[SocketRocket]

at last some one who understands the economic impact she had on the country..and your forgot, selling off all the NI at a fraction of there worth to her hubbys mates on the stock market!

Like Gordon Brown selling off the countries gold reserves at a fraction of it's value.

 

[Ethan]

Like Gordon Brown selling off the countries gold reserves at a fraction of it's value.

If you think I liked Gordon Brown very much more than Thatcher, you are sadly mistaken.

Deflection is a poor argument, used only in the absence of any substantive arguments.

 

[SocketRocket]

Someone called Dellboy saying Maggie was great!
Who is next Loadsamoney?

Very cheap shot. And you know it.