ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Born in 1977 by any chance? If so, you're hardly likely to have much experience of just how bad things got when she was Prime Minister.
Thatcher's State Funeral
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Born in 1977 by any chance? If so, you're hardly likely to have much experience of just how bad things got when she was Prime Minister.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
So you're indulging in insider dealing, are you?
*Reports his erstwhile monochrome comrade to the men with cattle-prods.*
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
'commoner'.
You forelock tugging servile twat.
You forelock tugging servile twat.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Imo it would be fitting for her to cast down a coal mine, it would limit those that could get to her
You could always seal the mine after too.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
He was only technically a "commoner" anyway. He was an "honourable", as well as later becoming a "right honourable", a Companion of Honour, and a Knight of the Garter. His family was riddled with aristocratic blood too.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Imo it would be fitting for her to cast down a coal mine, it would limit those that could get to her
Coal mine might be big enough to hold all the piss and shit people want to deposit on her grave too!
And what's your experience? You're right, I was a child during the Thatcher years, but that doesn't mean I can't hold an opinion on the subject (for example, I wasn't about during the late 19th/early 20th centuries, but know they weren't a barrel of laughs for most people).
She was in her own right more of a success than Tony Blair since she came from a more humble background and achieved the same post (but more withing it) in harder circumstances than Blair did. Her legacy will be more fondly remembered too.
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
Lol.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
bullshit, she was petty bourgois with all the venom the worst of that class can muster.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
I see tonight's Comedy Turn has showed up and is going through his/her paces....
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Since every post thatcher government has simply followed the legacy through to its logical conclusion whereby we're now proper, proper fucked it's hard to see how she will be remembered fondly by anyone who has to work for a living in real jobs.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I want her to die the day before the Olympic opening ceremony. A great big party in a stadium as the news is announced would be just the ticket.
How so? Her father was a humble grocer and she went to an ordinary grammar school. Blair on the other hand went to Fettes (and I see nothing wrong with that, BTW).
What's wrong with being so-called 'petty bourgois'?
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Heh heh heh
You're new to these parts, aren't you boy/girl?
What, London? No sunshine, lived here most of my life. Lived in other parts of England too though.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
...aaaaaaand he's gone. Again.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Return offender, FM? Well, I never.
Anyhoo - Melly sez "No state funeral for Thatchersaurus".
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
What did he do wrong FM? He may have been a prat but that's not a banning offence on here AFAIK.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Perhaps you could justify your reasoning by highlighting her good policies?
I am struggling to think of any.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
You know precisely why I banned him because you bloody brought him here and also woke him up again this Christmas.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
but labour but labour- I've venom to spare for him as well. That you don't see his private schooling as problematic says it all...
I said she had the venom displayed by the worst of her class- the I saw it and daddy pulled his socks up, we went without a proper starter once when times were hard alan sugarish self mythologising bullshit about how they know the proletariat and are entitled to despise them because of it. I didn't say it was neccesarily a bad thing- just that she displayed the more venemous tendencies from someone raised so.[/quote]
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
oh was it silent mental majority the hustings? again?
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
No I didn't, FM, That isn't the guy I know from elsewhere, if he was a child from the Thatcher years.
The man I know was working in Holland during that time and is a lot older - even older than I am. He supported Manchester United (he doesn't now) and remembers George Best during his prime. I'll bet Whitey77 doesn't.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Maybe - and I know this is an odd suggestion for somebody who's registered a dozen-odd accounts and claimed to be different people each time - he's been fibbing.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I was born in the early '60s. I came of age as Thatcher took power. I saw the million unemployed that the Tories had castigated Callaghan and Labour for become almost three million by 1985 due to Thatcher's industrial economic policy.
Of course you can hold an opinion, but your opinion is always going to be drawn from secondary rather than primary sources.
She was petite bourgeoise, Blair was bourgeoise. She had a father who was a local politician as well as a business-owner, Blair had a father who was a failed politician and a businessman. The humble background attributed to Thatcher, with her father mentioned as a "grocer" miss the point that the man owned a shop, he didn't work in it or manage it.
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