Margaret Thatcher dead...

No, for being too bloody arrogant and pompous to sit down with them and negotiate, and therefore the Troubles continued. The Blair government took the right path, talked, and the outcome was the Good Friday agreement, and peace in Northern Ireland and the British mainland.

 

I do hope there is a Hell.

 

And where did it get her? Nowhere, fast.

 

Shamful, some ppl have no respect

She wasnt a mass murderer she was a PM, show some dignity....


I see a blood thirsty mob cheering at the death of another as a degraded society, no diffrent than a lyncing mob or crowd cheering at stake burning.

Disgusting and shameful...

Let me guess, its the same ppl that preach values on Israel right ?

 

She marked Nelson Mandela as a terrorist. For her support for Pinochet alone she was a moral outcast. Right-wing fanboys have no concept of what support for such an ogre means. You disgrace yourself.

 

Dont mourn her, but to cellebrate the death of your own PM is exactly what you said, DISGRACFUL.

 

She was never my PM but that makes no difference. She had a rotten character, mean, vicious, conniving and self-serving. She was a bloody Zionist.

 

Let's put it this way - Hugo Chavez she was not.

 

btw - how is your former PM - SOB - Arik Scheinerman getting on - ? still plugged in , is he ?

Hanging on coz Arafat is waiting for him. (wink)

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She did nothing for the advancement of females in politics, since she rarely promoted them in her own party.

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Aye.

And of cancer too, and quite young.

She had a fair innings.

Did you read that a 'typo' on the BBC said she had died of a 'strike'.

Not kidding.

 

Respect is earned and not automatic.

She had v little respect for people while alive, why should we pretend to respect her now?

 

I should be more grateful for the Teflon coating of a previous president.

 

Maggie was as good as dead when she left/pushed out of No.10 -

I did'nt like her or her policies - Did nothing for me - I managed to get my foot on housing ladder thx to the Wilson govt + Wedgie Benn - putting the frighteners on house landlords. Our landlord begged me to buy the house we 're renting - (in hindsight ) very favourable terms .
Been staunch Labour all through - never Tory.
But what's done is done - sadly a little b-****- Bliar turned out a traitor to all Labour stood for and made no attempt to undo whatever harm the Tories had done .

Let be - she died many years ago. I wont be dancing on her or anyone else's grave - death comes to us all.

IMO - the show they plan putting on next week is just another waste of taxpayers money.

For now journalists - - media - for or against in praise /condemnation , are working overtime.

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Well I guess I am a bit more human than you are. If Obama or another successful politician died that I did not agree with (and did not kill people for his political gains) then I would look at that person for what he accomplish. I would not go on forums and go yay the witch is dead and drink copious amount of alcohol as I spout how my party is the best of two halves. I'm not saying mourn but dear god give her respect for girls who don't subscribe to your politics can have the opportunity to look up at her. But all I see when ever there is a strong right wing woman you left wing jerks come like a cloud of locust and try to destroy any good image or positive thing that person could promote all in the name of your ideology.

If people on your side can't see how wrong it is to celebrate another person's death because of political reasons, well that just says a lot don't ya think. And that is more or less what I am getting at here.

 

It's important to understand how much Britain sucked before Maggie came to power.

The UK had to be bailed out by the IMF.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/imf-crisis.htm

There used to be a phrase called "British Disease" to describe the economic incompetence of the UK after the war to the 1970s. That phrase went away after Maggie came to power.

http://www.voxeu.org/article/competition-cured-british-disease

Unions were all-powerful in Britain. Given the amount of influence they had in the Labour Party at the time, they effectively ran the country. The legacy of that time was garbage piling up in the streets and dead bodies being left unburied. Unions could go on strike without a vote of their membership, and one union could go on strike to support a strike of another union, the two not having anything to do with one another, i.e. steel workers going on strike to support dock workers.

http://m.guardiannews.com/uk/2009/dec/30/liverpool-gravedigger-strikes



Wide swaths of the British economy were owned directly by the British government, which ran the businesses first for the unions. Costs were so high, in large part due to the unions, that they ran at loss and were being subsidized by the government. Electricity blackouts were common in the UK in the 1970s because the businesses were so poorly run.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6729683.stm

That's why the government privatized. There is no reason for governments to own coal companies or steel companies or airlines or gas drillers.

 

Why?

I don't know her.

She had a long life.

Why should I feel anything, she was not deprived in any way was she?

I don't understand this faux mourning.

 

Actually yes I did defend him. (Possibly not here but on another political site) I said the same thing as I did here. People actually look up to this man and just because of his ideology doesn't make him a spawn of Satan. But then again the controversy behind Chavez is he killed people, with Thatcher its all about the trade unions and taxes. One seems a bit more heavier than the other don't ya think.

 

Didn't I just say you don't have to mourn her but give her respect? I'm sure you would be defensive and a tad bit sad if the person you looked up to suddenly died. But then again, I don't know you. You could be built out of a brick wall for all I know and actually believe that to mourn over childhood 'hero' is just 'faux mourning'.

 

Don't you worry, all those shedding crocodile tears for the Thatcher monster were on their seats cheering for the murders of Saddam and Gaddafi and they're licking their lips at the prospect of a murdered Assad. Hypocrisy is the backbone of the right-wing.

 

That Israeli female terrorist, Livni, is a strong woman too.

 

I suppose that the pre-Thatcher governmnet was responsible for this ?



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Memphis

' British disease ' was a right-wing slogan. Unions have real grievances. Slavery is supposed to have been abolished.

 

And yet your side does it right back? Both hard right wing and hard left wing have no class and no tolerance for people with opposite ideals.

 

Oh no Livni is an Israeli therefor a monster! Opposing views are quite a scary thing if only we could all think the same and agree on everything.

You're just validating what I am saying. Someone has opposite views therefor you feel the need to demonize. I think that is the true root of evil in this world. The lack of tolerance.

 

Never understood that if you do not (and with good reason), like or respect someone when alive, there is a social pressure to respect them when they die. What difference does it make anyway - they are dead.

 

Intensely? Really?

Can you provide us a list, so that we can have some sort of basis to evaluate your claim?