thatcher

[piggy]

i am most dissapointed in this forum for the severe lack of bad taste/sick jokes about the late maggie thatcher, apart from "ding dong the witch is dead" being the number 1 d/l last week there does not seem to be anywhere near enough disrespect for this hideous woman/dictator. shame, shame on you all.

[Godspot]

She not as bad as Tony Bliar imho - seen this other day & thought it interesting:

Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary - 4oD - Channel 4
www.channel4.com/.../margaret-death-of-a-revolutionary/4odShare3 days ago – Watch Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary online when you want on 4oD. ... Martin Durkin's controversial thesis is that Margaret Thatcher was a .

[Win2Win]

That's because I think she was great :thumbs ... but then I'm a military man and you'll find it really hard to find one of us who are against her .... whereas Blair :spank:

[piggy]

oh dear :ermmm just a few thoughts, coal mining,steel,shipbuilding, manafacturing base, nhs, gas ,electricity, water, railways,local authority grants, poll tax. i blame the brighton bombers for ::swear missing.

[piggy]

she should have been cremated to get her used to her new inviroment, they knew not to play stairway to heaven at her service it would take more than a staircase more like a miracle

[piggy]

where's big c when you need him i'll just have to party by myself :party:REDanceda:drnk

[Win2Win]

More coal mines were closed before and after Thatcher by Labour governments :doh .... People only remember her time during coal mine closures because Scargill made a personal vow to not be beaten by a woman, which was as clear as day for all to see.

Plus things like coal mining, ship building, etc were all losing money and being heavily subsidised by the taxpayer. All those industries were much cheaper abroad, that is called capitalism. As for selling off the utilities, etc, everyone since has done very well out of them via pension funds, and our gas/electric would still be the same price now if it wasn't privatised due to the wholesale price and the fact that gas is linked to oil price which is just wrong.

[tovarich]

Seems you've got your wish, Piggy, Lady Thatcher has been cremated, which will be a big disappointment to BigC and Tophatter who no doubt are now queueing up to "piss on her grave"

It takes a certain level of intelligece to come out with the moronic bile you've just posted. Perhaps, if you knew your history you might have a change of mind, although I doubt it.

When Margaret Thatcher took over running the country in 1979 she found the cupboard was bare and we were bankrupt and up to out ears in debt. Harold Wilson and "Sonny" Jim Callaghan were so good at their jobs that Callaghan (remember him saying "CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS)had to go to the International Monetary Fund with cap in hand to beg for financial help, because we were in the same position as Cyprus is now. Bankrupt.

I've just heard a report on TV that in 1979 29 million working days were lost due to strikes and last year 2 million, What do you think, Piggy, wouild you call that an improvement?

Margaret Thatcher knew she had a difficult task ahead but she was too strong to give in to the unions. If you want to go on strike so be it. The unions had got used to the fact that all they had to do was threaten a strike and they would get their pay rise from their puppets in Downing Street, which is why I said on a previous post that TUC leaders Messrs Jackson, Gormley, etc spent more time in Downing Street pulling the strings (and enjoying their beer and sandwichs) than Harold Wilson.

Although Margaret Thatcher has had to take the blame for killing off the British Mining Industry it was that good communist lad from Yorkshire Arthur Scargill who did that. Strike after strike after strike meant that Arthur Scargill had priced British coal out of the market. It wasn't just cheaper but much cheaper to buy coal from abroad -like Poland for instance, and since the country had no money we had to buy cheap.

After 15 years of socialist/communist misrule we couldn't afford to buy our own coal.

And when Mrs Thatcher was told by British Intelligence that Arthur Scargill had made two secret visits to the Russian Embassy in London she froze the NUM Funds. Of course this was the Kremlin's dream come true, a chance to bring down the British Government led by a woman who was too strong to yield, so it was arranged that one million hard currency roubles (then about £750,00) to be transferred into a Swiss Bank account opened in the name of Ms N.Hyett. It is no coincidence at all that it is the married name of Nell Myers, Scargills close friend and a senior NUM official.

This was all reported in The Mail on Sunday , April 15th 2007, or you can google A.Scargill V the Mail On Sunday.

I'm sure there is no connection but I remember at the time hearing that Arthur Scargill owned three bungalows in Yorkshire and last night a photo on TV showed his current home. I'm not a greedy person but it has always been my ambition to own a house with half the rooms he has, but then I'm not a socialist/communist. He hasn't done bad for a working class lad from "oop North"

Much like those other "Champagne" socialists such as "LORD" John Prescott, who,if he hadn't been a union member, would probably still be serving afternoon tea and sandwiches to old ladies on cruise ships.

Or "LORD" John Reid, who might still be working in the Glasgow shipyards, (if they had any) Again the shipyards couldn't compete with foreign shipyards because their union insisted that 5 (five) men be employed to do what 2(TWO) men used to do I.E. put in a rivet. Again priced their ships out of the market because they couldn't compete for price against the Koreans and Chinese.

Or "LORD" Peter Mandelson, ?

I think I'd rather have a rich millionaire coming into politics to run the country because he's not in it to line his own pockets, (and probably better educated)
than a wannabee "Champagne" socialist who is only out for himself

One last thing, Thank you for saving my country and may you REST IN PEACE, Maggie.

[piggy]

actually tovarich i don't need to know my history as i lived it, boom bust economy, record interest rates, record unemployment in a society where the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, she created the society that give birth to the underclass.
you can argue the toss on coal and steel but we were buying in from germany who were subsidising there industries have a look at the present and decide who was right or wrong.
you can bang on about scargill but i can mention things like westminster council , labour peers and i can come back with lord archer etc so we'll that area alone and concentrarte on some facts like privatisation, why sell when your making a profit and at way below the market value thats just economical suicide or if your millionnaire banker husband and his banker pals are making millions i suppose it might make sense.
to be honest i cant be assed to carry on this against somebody so ill informed and obviously my intellectual inferior.

[MarcusMel]

The only thing we truly own in life is now. The past is only there to for us to find out if we have yet learned how to be civilized. This situation was always going to happen, no matter who was trying to manage the country. My mother once quoted another politician or philosopher to me with 'people get the governments they deserve', meaning if we don't pay attention to what our managers are doing we deserve what happens, I suppose. So what have we learned? Perhaps one lesson I hope was learned, was if you are female you don't just vote for another woman because they are the same sex as yourself.