Kellfire
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I've had Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland sat out to read for a long time but never got around to it, I must get back into it again.
Baroness Thatcher Dead
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Five&One
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Living in Thatcher's Britain VS Living in Scargill's Britain
Think of it that way and you'll feel a bit more at ease. I know I do.
Think of it that way and you'll feel a bit more at ease. I know I do.
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ANOTHER post removed because it didn't fit into the Thatcher love in?
In_The_Rough
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Nothing to do with a Thatcher love in, just a tasteless and crass remark. I cant stand Tony Blair or Gordon Brown or any Labour MP but certainly would not be toasting their passing nor make remarks on a public forum and at the end of the day it is somebodies mother and grandmother we are talking about. How would you feel if it was your own mother/grandmother that had sadly passed away and somebody was posting remarks on a public forum with pint glasses being raised.
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Slime
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That's why it was removed, was it?
Grow up and act like a civil human being.
She was an old lady and was no threat to you or anyone else, so why are you celebrating her passing?
Celebrating her fall from power is fair enough, stick to that and stop being so bitter.
Slime.
PhilTheFragger
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Gentlemen, I must ask that all your comments on this emotive subject are kept on a level that is tasteful,
Thank you
Thank you
Slime
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Point taken Phil.
Sorry.
Can't believe just how emotive this subject is.
Slime.
williamalex1
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Or Hitler
stevie_r
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Comparing Thatcher to Hitler is as ridiculous as the attempt to compare her to Bin Laden the other night.
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No celebrations in my post #323 PC Slime, merely an observation.
williamalex1
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She managed to destroy more industry in Scotland, than the Luftwaffe.
Val
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That's because you live in Surrey and never really expierenced the devastation that some of her decisions made on communities
Let's get this thread back on track or it'll be locked off whcih would be shame as there have been some great posts made on both sides of the debate
Without digressing, and I'm certainly not going to blanket this comment as it possibly won't be relevant in all circumstances but, wasn't it a case that some of those industries were already struggling, already had been supported financially and helped and were still failing to some degree, if not totally?
Not only that, where were the additional finances going to come from to update the poor working conditions that a lot of workers were experiencing whilst some of those industries, factory's & plants were failing? All this whilst the fat-cat unions were having jolly boys outings and mortgages paid for and driving around in Jaguars whilst their contributors (members) were on 2 or 3 day weeks, if they were lucky!
Isn't it just a case that she had the balls to do what needed to be done, and probably should have been done years before but no one stepped up to the plate?
I pigeon hole her as like having a git and bar steward of a manager to work for, not one of these Jekyll & Hyde's that you don't know where you really stand and can change their mood like the weather, I know who I'd prefer to work for and have lead my country, a doer whether you like the decisions (policies) or not and not this weak rabble we have now across all party's.
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Doon frae Troon
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Once again........for those of us who lived through those times.........it was the communist unions who destroyed the 1970's industries not Thatcher.
The also destroyed the old Labour party
Spot on!
So much money was being plowed into paying to get strikers back into work, there was nowt being spent on modernising plant. And then having got them back into work they were back out coz an engineer picked up a sweeping brush...
The Liverpool dockers spent more time arguing about job demarction than they did working... and they were coining it in. They'd think nowt of giving a docker's threpnybit(50p) as a tip for just about anything, e.g. a taxi ride to work. 50p in the mid/late 70's wasn't loose change.
Bring back Maggie!
Liverbirdie
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Maybe so, maybe not.
Have you an answer for all the other things that she did, or are you just blind to everything, in the interests of something had to be done.
For some the "medicine" was worse than the illness, as it was sparingly given.
This could go around in circles forever!
North v South
Industry v Finance
Hammered by her policies v Did very nicely thanks
Looney Left v Ridiculous Right
Et all ...
Divisive then and divisive now, even in death.
I say get her buried and move on.
North v South
Industry v Finance
Hammered by her policies v Did very nicely thanks
Looney Left v Ridiculous Right
Et all ...
Divisive then and divisive now, even in death.
I say get her buried and move on.
Doon frae Troon
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The union leaders of that time were like out of control gangsters.
The had the Labour party totally in there pockets.
Jim Callaghan tried to steady the ship and that lead to the winter of discontent. They hung him out to dry and paved the way for Thatcher to bring in policies that had huge support from the working classes. As I said earlier I went into a depot and all ten green keepers were voting Tory.
The changes she introduced in the early years were popular, that is why she was re-elected.
The Poll Tax done for her, good idea badly managed.
By that time she had a very poor cabinet, remember the brown envelope times. Two or three even ended in jail.
FairwayDodger
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Nope, she was re-elected on a wave of popularity after the Falklands conflict, going to the polls at the earliest opportunity afterwards.
