Margaret Thatcher dead...

No need to get personal.

 

The Democrat news media is having a festive and exciting field day vilifying, jeering, booing, making fun of and criticizing the late Margaret Thatcher.

It should be noted that not only did she put the unions in their place and temporarily restored the UK's posperity and economy, she saved Britain's oil-rich Falkland Islands from an Argentine invasion and take-over.

She truly was the "Iron Lady," with cojones of steel.

R.I.P.

 

Too bad. Sometimes I agreed with her and sometimes I didn't, but she had the rare virtues of the politician of actually saying what she meant and doing (or at least trying to do) what she promised.

 

I won't be among her mourners any more than I was among Reagan's mourners.

 

Intensely liked by reasonable people on both sides.

 

RIP, Iron Lady, and please continue annoying Socialists, even from the grave

 

If they decide on a state funeral, expect fireworks.

 

It seems Britain's Twitterati are almost entirely "socialist" by American rightist standards. One of the printable comments suggested that the only way they'll get a minutes silence is to ask for a round of applause!

 

Annette Funicello has also passed at age 70........

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Annette Funicello has also passed at age 70........

 

My condolences to her family and to Brits in general.

 

what is this madness????

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US servers are under attack it seems..............

 

Margaret Thatcher has died.

We want to take the moment when our country is remembering her legacy, to remember the people her government hurt - people who don’t get pull-out supplements in national newspapers. People who don’t get State funerals in St Paul's Cathedral. The people her apologists forget, or want to forget.

Margaret Thatcher's last years were spent coping with dementia, a terrible illness. If, like us, you were disgusted by how she treated the least well off in Britain and around the world, the old line about not wishing something on your worst enemies still applies. We can’t help but think it’s pretty lousy to celebrate or gloat over anyone’s suffering and death and we don’t want anyone else to do it either.

We just want to place front and centre people who had no place in the Thatcherite worldview. And we want to do that in a way that can actually do some good. You can help us by donating to the excellent charities we have chosen to represent a fraction of them – the homeless, miners’ families, gay teenagers, Hillsborough survivors and South African victims of the Apartheid regime.

Nothing is stopping you doing more or taking the spirit of the Don’t Hate, Donate campaign in your own direction. Thank you so much for your support!

The Charities

The list is here:

http://donthatedonate.com/

 

There's someone I could mourn.

 

It seems she got her claims by legitimate means.

If only all members of legitimate and illegitimate governments were to do the same.........................

 

Poor Dennis. That's his peace broken now she is dead too.

 

Here's a true story of a paraletic Dennis. Nice synopsis of Margaret too by somebody on the inside, as it were:

By chance I knew Margaret Thatcher rather better than a junior civil servant might have been expected to, not least from giving her some maritime briefings during the First Gulf War. On another occasion Denis and I once got absolutely blind drunk in Lagos – I had been given him to look after for the day, and the itinerary started with the Guinness brewery and went on to the United Distillers bottling plant, before lunch at the golf club. I had to reunite him with his spouse for the State Banquet and quite literally fell out of the car. Happy days.

I can say I was on first name terms with her – she always called me by my first name. Except unfortunately she thought that was Peter. I recall she came out to Poland when I was in the Embassy there and I was embarrassed because she knew me, and thus greeted me more warmly than my Embassy superiors. The problem was lessened by her continuing to call me Peter very loudly, even after I corrected her twice.

In person she was frightfully sharp, she really was. If you gave her a briefing, she had an uncanny ability to seize on the one point where you did not have sufficient information. She also had that indescribable charisma – you really could feel when she entered a room in a way I have never experienced with anybody else, not Mandela or Walesa, for example. You may be surprised to hear that in person I found her quite likeable.

Yet she was a terrible, terrible disaster to this country. The utter devastation of heavy industry, the writing off of countless billions worth of tooling and equipment, the near total loss of the world’s greatest concentrated manufacturing skills base, the horrible political division of society and tearing of the bonds within our community. She was a complete, utter disaster.

Let me give one anecdote to which I can personally attest. In leaving office she became a “consultant” to US tobacco giant Phillip Morris. She immediately used her influence on behalf of Phillip Morris to persuade the FCO to lobby the Polish government to reduce the size of health warnings on Polish cigarette packets. Poland was applying to join the EU, and the Polish health warnings were larger than the EU stipulated size.

I was the official on whose desk the instruction landed to lobby for lower health warnings. I refused to do it. My then Ambassador, Michael Llewellyn Smith (for whom I had and have great respect) came up with the brilliant diplomatic solution of throwing the instruction in the bin, but telling London we had done it.

So as you drown in a sea of praise for Thatcher, remember this. She was prepared to promote lung cancer, for cash.

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/

 

If find it amusing that members from countries like Finland post on here to tell me how great she was, and how she was the sole reason Britain could consider itself a power.

What a lot of crap.

How can you been empowering your nation when you flog off all our assets to a few ''yuppies', and use the police as a clear political tool, against our people?

How can exploiting the less well off be a worthwhile and noble thing?

How can taking us into a conflict that did not need to be, anything to be esp proud of?

What is to boast about that you create a Child Support Agency, that is so ill conceived and punative, men were quitting their jobs, due to amounts being taken that were all wrong, and way too high.

Don't forget as well, the misery of one In ten unemployment, the YTS, the YOP, the fact that peace would never have been brokered with the IRA under her, etc, etc.

The women was a damaging force for this country, and that damage is still there today.

 

I was wrong in what I hoped earlier. She shouldn't be buried with a miner's boot up her arse.

She should be stuffed in a glass case with a miner's boot up her arse.

 

I'm sure there are a number of necrophiliac miners who would agree with you.

 

Totally agree with this post. On the whole, Thatcher did more for Britain than against, and I'm pretty sure she left it a bit better than she found it. And at least with her, you knew where she stood - which is light-years away from the crop of wishy-washiness we've got now. And yes, the fact that she was against the USSR as much as she was was a huge feather in her cap so far as I'm concerned.

RIP, Baroness Thatcher, and regards to your family. You will be missed.

 

She wont be missed by me or any of mine, I am sure there is one hell of a party im missing in ireland right now.

 

Definitely NOT the people's Prime Minister.

 

A truely great lady. She will live forever.

 

I'm sorry but people hating and celebrating Margret Thatcher's death for her ideology is just sick. Why not actually look at the person and what she actually accomplished. She was a strong woman that had a pair of balls to dominate politics in a male run world. Not to mention she grew up in a family owned business family and still managed to become Prime Minister. I could prattle on about how she is a great historical person no matter what her ideology was for hours but I wont because it will fall on deaf ears.

Nope we're all going to be little heathens and hate on her for politics rather than seeing how she conducted herself and grew to be a strong figure in history. Sick, just sick.

 

I absolutley hate her for how she conducted herself in ireland. I give two (*)(*)(*)(*)s about her otherwise.