Thatcher is dead

[Dillinger4]

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.

I am watching BBC News, and I get the feeling that although they are trying their hardest to venerate her, there is only really a very limited amount of nice things they can say

 

[treelover]

Happy students in Sheffield http://forgetoday.com/news/nus-conference-2013/video-have-you-heard-thatchers-dead/ edit: wtf some of them aren't?

Jo Cardwell at the NUS Conf getting interviews, its years since she was a student!

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

toasting with people abroad on skype.
I so wish I had my northerner friends who moved to australia's phone number so I could wake them up with the news.

 

[Fez909]

ah, ok. why would any of his fans know (or care) about a politician who was out of office a decade before their birth? when i was a kid i don't think i knew who harold wilson or ted heath were.

I don't know, but I suspect they all think she's great now because Harry felt the need to say "RIP" about her. This is what I meant earlier in the thread about the yoot learning of her for the first time today, and all the fawning giving them the impression she was a force for good.

 

[Dillinger4]

toasting with people abroad on skype.
I so wish I had my northerner friends who moved to australia's phone number so I could wake them up with the news.

I am very happy to be in the North today

 

[brogdale]

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.

I think the 'Fail' have done that one already.

 

[story]

toasting with people abroad on skype.
I so wish I had my northerner friends who moved to australia's phone number so I could wake them up with the news.

Oh my god, I wish that too! Being able to break the happy news would be excellent.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I've just this minute heard the news!

 

[ViolentPanda]

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



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

And I'm just saying that people are generally better-off without some lady bountiful attempting to impose her morality on people who've been at the sharp end of neoliberal bullshit not just with the advent of the Bedroom Tax, but since the advent of Thatcher.

 

[Fez909]

I think the 'Fail' have done that one already.

Really? I might have not explained what I meant properly, so just to clarify: the Daily Mail have an article with genuine criticism of her policies said by public figures since her death??

 

[Dillinger4]

I've just this minute heard the news!

hooray!

 

[Paul of Medway]

mwhhaa haha

 

[gawkrodger]

Just literally got off a plane in Hong Kong. Best end to a flight. Ever

 

[Remus Harbank]

only really sad thing is that compared to today's lot she was left of centre

 

[eoin_k]

I'm already pissed and on the South Bank suggest a venue and I'll buy you a drink.

I didn't see this till I got home unfortunately. Have a good one!

 

[toggy]

The bill for policing her funeral will be bigger than that of the Olympics.

Good riddance to the old witch.

 

[brogdale]

Really? I might have not explained what I meant properly, so just to clarify: the Daily Mail have an article with genuine criticism of her policies said by public figures since her death??

Oh yeah, OK..thread away. Might be useful to see who actually stuck to their guns.

 

[Orang Utan]

Some people are young/ignorant/stupid enough to not know she was:
http://whoismargaretthatcher.tumblr.com/

 

[belboid]

Happy students in Sheffield http://forgetoday.com/news/nus-conference-2013/video-have-you-heard-thatchers-dead/ edit: wtf some of them aren't?

bloody hell, they could at least spell Weston Park right

 

[thelittlechef]

Alexei Sayle: "She made a conscious decision to run down manufacturing and concentrate on two areas which were arms manufacture and financial services. I wonder in some ways if having financial services and arms manufacturing at the core of your country kind of corrupts you morally. This idea that she was a great reformer - in a sense she was a great destroyer."

 

[Dillinger4]

they have just had Nick Clegg followed by John Major on BBC news, not sure which one is the most pointless

 

[Gerry1time]

only really sad thing is that compared to today's lot she was left of centre

Yep. Amusingly, one of the photos the Guardian have on display at the moment is her linking arms with pro-europeans at a 'Britain in Europe' style rally. Just one part of her history that is generally ignored by those on the right these days.

 

[Chairman Meow]

Err, some of your Aussie friends might be awake. I'm in Perth and thinking about going to bed soon as I have no one to celebrate with.

 

[nogojones]

Cardiff party starts at 6PM on Queen St.

 

[DRINK?]

So one assumes the Thatcher residence has too many bedrooms now

 

[brogdale]

Cardiff party starts at 6PM on Queen St.

Do we have a party thread yet?

 

[Ted Striker]

Isn't it really something that - it's what 4 hours now? - and the b3ta esque types are so ecstatic they can't even bring themselves to do the obligatory funny pics on this one?! I await people proving otherwise though!

 

[Ranbay]

Isn't it really something that - it's what 4 hours now? - and the b3ta esque types are so ecstatic they can't even bring themselves to do the obligatory funny pics on this one?! I await people proving otherwise though!

 

[lefteri]

 

[Flanflinger]

Paulo Di Canio has already been spotted wearing a black armband.