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Thatcher is dead

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Lifted from Facebook.

Margaret Thatcher was the most divisive and polarising politic leader of the last century. This is an incomplete list of why many of us fall on the side that does not regard her with anything other than odium…

1. She supported the retention of capital punishment
2. She destroyed the country's manufacturing industry
3. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws
4. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren ("Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher")
5. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)
6. She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration
7. She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)
8. She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed - the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million
9. She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands
10. The poll tax
11. She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad
12. She compared her "fight" against the miners to the Falklands War
13. She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we've been railing against for the last 5 years
14. She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS
15. She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits
16. She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA
17. She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control
18. Section 28
19. She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as "that grubby little terrorist"
20. She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers
21. She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population
22. She opposed the reunification of Germany
23. She invented Quangos
24. She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%
25. She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister
26. Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech
27. The Al Yamamah contract
28. She opposed the indictment of Chile's General Pinochet
29. Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike
30. She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%
31. BSE
32. She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession
33. She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process
34. She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa
35. Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin
36. Crime rates doubled under Thatcher
37. Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain - £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros - £1 billion
38. Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage
39. She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.
40. She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education
41. In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions
42. 21.9% inflation

Most people recognise the massive changes that evolved during the 1980s. However, to ascribe the positive changes to one person, as though they never would have happened in her absence, is laughable.
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Whay-hay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (delayed cheering as I've been working late tonight)

that fecking murdering bitch is dead, at long last.
I'll break a long-standing rule and have a drink or three tonight.........
There will be quite a few parties up here in the North of England.

A pity that her political legacy still continues with the current lot mis-governing atm.
 
Manchester United v Manchester City: no minute's silence for Margaret Thatcher ahead of derby
Manchester United have confirmed there will be no minute’s silence prior to tonight’s derby against Manchester City following the death of Lady Thatcher this morning.

Plans by Mrs Thatcher to implement an ID card system for football supporters in the late-1980s proved hugely divisive and controversial, leading to a groundswell of animosity towards the former Conservative party leader.

In recent months, Liverpool supporters have been pictured with anti-Thatcher banners, with derogatory chants also aired.
And with Thatcher viewed negatively in working-class towns and cities in northern England, United’s decision not to hold a minute’s silence is likely to prevent that opposition being aired during any tribute.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...nce-for-Margaret-Thatcher-ahead-of-derby.html
 
Pick TV (channel 11) has a one hour special starting on her in a minute

So does BBC1 :D

and half hour on Channel 4+1 with Jon Snow
 
I've been wavering between being sensible and outrageously celebrating her death all day. In the end I gave in completely and bought my student cava and then bought myself a bottle for the taxi home which I finished off with flatmates whilst listening to anti-Thatcher songs.

I'm pretty tipsy now and I'm singing Aretha's "Oh, Happy Day!".


Can she die again tomorrow? This has been great.
 
Text message doin the rounds in Ireland..

Baroness Thatcher: Born - Grantham 13/10/25
Died - London 08/04/13
Sadly missed - Brighton 12/10/84



UNITED WE STAND!

Hey now Tommy have you got a new shirt
is it the colour of fine bright blue?
Has your mother sent you off to your school?
From the street with a pretty view

Shall we wrestle in the old school yard
Like the other children do?
We can scuff these shoes You can tear your hands
And I'll rip that shirt off you

Hey there Tommy since you moved away
They've taken our town and they've made it new
And now there stands a chemical plant
Where the cherry orchard grew
And I married Lucy from the back of our class
Who once wrote letters to you
And we've got kids and we send them to school
From the street with a pretty view
Oh in your shirt of blue
Oh in your shirt of blue

(Chorus...)
Maybe Tommy
We grew up too quick
From the fields
Where the flowers grow
From a butterfly stick
To a baton and a brick
You changed your uniforms far too soon

Hey there Tommy shall we meet again
In the morning wet with dew
Me at the gates of the colliery
And you in your shirt of blue
Shall we wrestle in the muddy patch
like the other poor miners do?
We can scuff our boots we can tear our hands
And I will rip that shirt off you
Oh in your shirt of blue
Oh in your shirt of blue
 
discokermit said:
just started on the champagne.
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I raised a glass of milk earlier. seemed more appropriate.

guy I know is having a party tonight. under thatcher his job and trade (he was welder in a shipyard) vanished. as a result he lost his home his wife and his dignity, had a breakdown and it took over 15 years to pull things back together again.
 
Nice one said:
Manchester United v Manchester City: no minute's silence for Margaret Thatcher ahead of derby
Manchester United have confirmed there will be no minute’s silence prior to tonight’s derby against Manchester City following the death of Lady Thatcher this morning.

Plans by Mrs Thatcher to implement an ID card system for football supporters in the late-1980s proved hugely divisive and controversial, leading to a groundswell of animosity towards the former Conservative party leader.

In recent months, Liverpool supporters have been pictured with anti-Thatcher banners, with derogatory chants also aired.
And with Thatcher viewed negatively in working-class towns and cities in northern England, United’s decision not to hold a minute’s silence is likely to prevent that opposition being aired during any tribute.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...nce-for-Margaret-Thatcher-ahead-of-derby.html
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That's a shame. A minutes 'silence' broadcast internationally would have been brilliant. Osborne at the Paralympics times 100.
 
We've finished all the wine we had, so I'm now having an Old Fashioned, as we have whisky and bitters and have been watching Mad Men DVDs of late.
 
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