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R.I.P. Maggie
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R.I.P. Maggie
Scooter? Surely she was more of a BSA girl?
she was a RIGHT tit
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Call her what you will, right or wrong at least she had f***ing backbone unlike the spineless silver spooned weasel that's in power now and the predecessors from Labour.
In my area (North Nottinghamshire), we get quite a wide mix of people from around Derbyshire and Yorkshire. Generally, peoples feelings towards her are negative. It isn't the full blown hatred that you see quite a lot up north, but most people didn't like her. There aren't many pits near me, but most of them have still be operating up until quite recently. Thus, nobody really blames her when it comes to mining, because many didn't lose jobs (surprised?).
My grandad was a miner, a proud Yorkshireman. Most of my dads side are very pro-labour, and none of them liked Mrs. Thatcher. My mums side on the other hand, are all from Derbyshire, and are all Tory supporters. So I tend to get both ends of the stick thrown at me whenever the topic comes up. It's quite a weird situation, to be honest. But they both respect that she was very decisive, and didn't mince words like today's politicians.
I'm far too young to have been around, and therefore I never formed an opinion of her. To me, she was a controversial, but influential leader. And I respect her for that.
Me? I don't really support anyone. Nowadays they're all just indecisive, uncaring, spineless bastards who couldn't give a stuff about anyone but themselves, no matter what the party.
Just my (very late) 2p's worth
My grandad was a miner, a proud Yorkshireman. Most of my dads side are very pro-labour, and none of them liked Mrs. Thatcher. My mums side on the other hand, are all from Derbyshire, and are all Tory supporters. So I tend to get both ends of the stick thrown at me whenever the topic comes up. It's quite a weird situation, to be honest. But they both respect that she was very decisive, and didn't mince words like today's politicians.
I'm far too young to have been around, and therefore I never formed an opinion of her. To me, she was a controversial, but influential leader. And I respect her for that.
Me? I don't really support anyone. Nowadays they're all just indecisive, uncaring, spineless bastards who couldn't give a stuff about anyone but themselves, no matter what the party.
Just my (very late) 2p's worth
It shows how much impact she had on peoples lives (good & bad) by the fact that people are still talking about her many years after she was in power.
While I understand the animosity of some, personally Blair and Brown screwed my life up much more than Maggie did.
While I understand the animosity of some, personally Blair and Brown screwed my life up much more than Maggie did.
Anybody slagging her off obviously wasn't out of nappies during life in Britain during the 70s.
All we had were wildcat strikes over sod all, it seemed like we were being run by shop stewards committees, we had TWo-hATs like Scargill and Red Robbo with their smarmy BS on the news almost every night justifying their latest walk-out, my late Dad was an area chairman of the NUR and called his share of strikes, so I know well about the under-the-table crap that went on in the Unions.
Maggie was a breath of fresh air at the time and I knew a LOT of Labour supporters that admired her, but of course would never say so in the social clubs.
RIP Maggie, you told it like it was and did a damn good job, and I hope the slimy back stabbers that got you out are getting toasted.
All we had were wildcat strikes over sod all, it seemed like we were being run by shop stewards committees, we had TWo-hATs like Scargill and Red Robbo with their smarmy BS on the news almost every night justifying their latest walk-out, my late Dad was an area chairman of the NUR and called his share of strikes, so I know well about the under-the-table crap that went on in the Unions.
Maggie was a breath of fresh air at the time and I knew a LOT of Labour supporters that admired her, but of course would never say so in the social clubs.
RIP Maggie, you told it like it was and did a damn good job, and I hope the slimy back stabbers that got you out are getting toasted.
She was the last of the so-called conviction politicians. In that she genuinely believed that the only way for us to stop going down the pan was to cut back on public (tax payer) spending and stop the unions from wrecking us. I travelled extensively at that time and we were envied abroad for having a pm with "balls". Now we just have career politicians who are only interested in clinging to their jobs.
Even on the international scene she was in a different class from those who preceded her and those that followed. Despite Britain being a 2nd or even 3rd class military power by the early '80s she was very instrumental in bringing down the Berlin Wall and ending the Soviet Union's domination of Eastern Europe (as well as other significant changes) by leading Ronald Reagan round by the nose. Tony Blair, by comparison, spent the post 9-11 period pushing Bush around with his nose up George W's a**e.
However controversial the Task Force to reclaim the Falklands was, and in some people's minds still is, it did one important thing for the UK. It put down a marker to other nations and, in my opinion, gave the Soviet Union the final push that Gorbachev needed to dissolve that organisation.
She was by no means perfect, but unfortunately there are plenty, mainly on the "On trend" left who have spent the last 30+ years trying to denigrate what she achieved . This country was sick and although she didn't cure it, she certainly put it on road to recovery.
However controversial the Task Force to reclaim the Falklands was, and in some people's minds still is, it did one important thing for the UK. It put down a marker to other nations and, in my opinion, gave the Soviet Union the final push that Gorbachev needed to dissolve that organisation.
She was by no means perfect, but unfortunately there are plenty, mainly on the "On trend" left who have spent the last 30+ years trying to denigrate what she achieved . This country was sick and although she didn't cure it, she certainly put it on road to recovery.
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Ding dong the witch is dead,
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I hope people are talking about me so long after my death.....let's face it, they don't talk much about me while I'm alive
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Tiocfaidh Ar La
Dream on.
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b'fhéidir d'fhéadfaí tú a bheith níos úsáidí do fóram má werent tú ag trolling snáithe seo ......
It always winds me up when people post in Serbo-Croat. Cease and desist immediately. Smarta**e.
I am not sure if that post was in response to the foreign language post a little higher up the page but I know what you mean! I re-read a lot of this old thread the other night. I had forgotten how heated it had become at the time.
