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Thatcher is dead

This is the problem in revelling in her death - namely fracturing anticuts campaigns and the like - from facebook:

She wasnt the only one in the group - support in the comments
Just saying

Another empty point hers (not yours necessarily) - the benefit cuts (hate the term bedroom tax) will not be defeated by appealing to compassion from the government - but by imposing various kind of wider costs against the rich via collective action.

"I don't care how evil Thatcher was, seeing all these comments from the people I have been going out of my way to help with the cause (letter writing almost every day, attending protests, petition signing, getting my view across to as many people and media outlets as possible) is pissing me off. You want compassion from a government yet have none yourself. You want help from those who aren't affected by the BT? You want to prove you are not the "scum" as portrayed in the media...Christ, one look at the comments and the Daily Fail will have a field day. I wish you all success in your efforts to get this scrapped. Although I am still very much against all the cuts I am now bowing out. As this doesn't affect me I was fighting for you guys."

In fact it's a warning about the kind of people attracted to compassion-based campaigns 'As this doesn't affect me I was fighting for you guys'
 
Her damage is well and truly done and embedded, with her ideological descendants in full control. Things will be worse tomorrow than they are today. They won. We lost. And now we're on the floor, they're putting the boot in. Can't get excited over the death of a figurehead, personally.
Can't disagree with the analysis, but I'll still have a moment today (even though as others have said, I thought I'd have felt more). My take on your last sentence is 'I'd rather it was Osborne'.
 
Harry Styles twitter followers respond to the shocking news...

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hopefully her hell will be somewhere in South America, a camp in Chile in the 70s, say, and she will be there with Ronald Reagan
 
R5 Live Tony Benn just said she used her power to undertake Class War. That's more like it.


Did you notice the presenter warning Benn that "this is a day for respect"?

I'm really struck by how the talking heads are labouring the notion that she was kind, respectful, compassionate.
 
R5 Live Tony Benn just said she used her power to undertake Class War. That's more like it.

I was going to start a counter-thread to the Labour hypocrisy one, whereby we post up the genuine criticism of her from those in the media, politicians, whatever...but I knew it would be a ghost thread, spineless cunts that they all are.
 
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