Thatcher is dead

[butchersapron]

Young Londoners spraying champagne and looting charity shops; it's the sort of celebration Maggie would've wanted

Not much looting there <removed>.

 

[Streathamite]

implement it in ways that she would have thought absurd, go on to inflict miseries on the British people (that she almost certainly would not have done) whilst using her as an example

out of interest, what makes you think she wouldn't have been happpy with what all of her successors did re; the economy, privatisations, social authoritarianism, demonising the poor, the great Outsourcing bonanza etc.? It strikes me that it would have been a neoliberal paradise for her; her policies carried on to their logical conclusion.

 

[J Ed]

Front page of the Sheffied Star today:

 

[sojourner]

The one fucking day I'm off and offline, and the fella's out til daft o'clock, and the twat goes and karks it!!

Looks like I missed mega fucking threads here and on FB so I'll just put my congratulations here, and will be raising several glasses of sparkly tonight. Never thought I'd see this day - she's been hanging on like fucking bacteria round a shithouse bowl!

FINALLY!

 

[butchersapron]

Front page of the Sheffied Star today:

When are you going to call for an inquiry into your defence of the SYP and sheff weds then blunkett? I wonder if the families of the dead can forgive you?

 

[Streathamite]

outrageous

A perfect tribute to the wonders of Thatcherite capitalism!

 

[elbows]

Versions of Ding Dong! on Amazon currently at no 3, 9 & 21. The 'movers and shakers' panel on the right has 3 slots, all of which are occupied by versions of that song right now

 

[J Ed]

A perfect tribute to the wonders of Thatcherite capitalism!

Apparently the bloke that tweeted that got sacked

 

[Ranbay]

It made the Daily mail that tweet.

 

[Greebo]

Never mind the cultural christian allusions, IMHO this one nails it today:

 

[Streathamite]

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.

True, but I look to the long term. There's always a round 2, and it's coming.

 

[elbows]

Movers and Shakers in MP3 songs on Amazon UK right now:​

1. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Ella Fitzgerald.​

2. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Judy Garland.​

3. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Ella Fitzgerald.​

5. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Judy Garland.​

8. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Ella Fitzgerald.​

9. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Ella Fitzgerald.​

10. Tramp The Dirt Down by Elvis Costello.​

11. George Square Thatcher Death Party by Mogwai.​

12. Margaret On The Guillotine by Morrissey.​

13. The Day That Thatcher Dies by Hefner.​

14. Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead by The Munchkins.​

17. Stand Down Margaret(Dub).​

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It's what she would have wanted, market forces!​

 

[butchersapron]

True, but I look to the long term. There's always a round 2, and it's coming.

They're figureheads for a reason, being a figurehead has a function, and that function comes with a particular narrative. Opposing that narrative has its own function. It's part of how we get out of this mess, by challenging what we are taught about these figureheads. It's really important to do this.

 

[treelover]

Front page of the Sheffied Star today:

Blunkett, the man who described sick and disabled people as "sitting on the sofa watching daytime tv all day''


Btw, a guy was on Radio Sheffield who was from down South earlier who was sympathetic to the Miners, he categorically says he witnessed coaches leaving Sandhurst with military in police uniform...

 

[Crispy]

True, but I look to the long term. There's always a round 2, and it's coming.

You are right; I both expect and look forward to the tories losing the next election. But still, the fact remains, she dug up the notional center of british politics and drove it miles to the right, where it is now bedded in deep.

 

[belboid]

Movers and Shakers in MP3 songs on Amazon UK right now:​

1. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Ella Fitzgerald.​

2. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Judy Garland.​

3. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Ella Fitzgerald.​

5. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Judy Garland.​

8. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Ella Fitzgerald.​

9. Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead by Ella Fitzgerald.​

10. Tramp The Dirt Down by Elvis Costello.​

11. George Square Thatcher Death Party by Mogwai.​

12. Margaret On The Guillotine by Morrissey.​

13. The Day That Thatcher Dies by Hefner.​

14. Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead by The Munchkins.​

17. Stand Down Margaret(Dub).​

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It's what she would have wanted, market forces!​

she'd get the Number 1 easy if anyone could work out which version to buy!

 

[treelover]

A perfect tribute to the wonders of Thatcherite capitalism!

Managers been suspended..

 

[editor]

Not much looting there <removed>.

Don't put in real names please.

 

[nino_savatte]

she'd get the Number 1 easy if anyone could work out which version to buy!

I'm disappointed that Barbra Streisand's version of Ding Dong the Witch is dead isn't on that list.

 

[editor]

Young Londoners spraying champagne and looting charity shops; it's the sort of celebration Maggie would've wanted

Did they "loot" the shop? And you know why Barnardos was targeted, yes?

 

[Streathamite]

They're figureheads for a reason, being a figurehead has a function, and that function comes with a particular narrative. Opposing that narrative has its own function. It's part of how we get out of this mess, by challenging what we are taught about these figureheads. It's really important to do this.

agreed absolutely; that narrative is a one two parts myth and one part bullshit, that - tragically - people, even most people, have swallowed whole. We need to push that alternative narrative

 

[Streathamite]

You are right; I both expect and look forward to the tories losing the next election. But still, the fact remains, she dug up the notional center of british politics and drove it miles to the right, where it is now bedded in deep.

It sure is, which is why Labour winning the next election will make f-all difference, beyond it being quite pleasant to see that smirk wiped off Disco's face, and things being marginally less awful for people. Labour are not the answer. However, a mass leftward tide is, and that I am optimistic about, simply because there's only so far people can be pushed

 

[gunneradt]

Did they "loot" the shop? And you know why Barnardos was targeted, yes?

That makes criminal damage ok then?

 

[nino_savatte]

That makes criminal damage ok then?

It depends on what you mean by "criminal damage".

 

[Ax^]

That makes criminal damage ok then?

*shrugs*

 

[Badgers]

That makes criminal damage ok then?

Yep

 

[gunneradt]

ha ha the weekend should be fun - awaits numerous sob stories

 

[frogwoman]

she'd get the Number 1 easy if anyone could work out which version to buy!

It will be funny as fuck if ding dong does get to no.1 and they have to play it on radio 1.

 

[J Ed]

It will be funny as fuck if ding dong does get to no.1 and they have to play it on radio 1.

I bet they wouldn't do it!

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

It will be funny as fuck if ding dong does get to no.1 and they have to play it on radio 1.

Comments on Amazon say the Judy Garland version is too short to qualify (51secs).

Presumably that's why You Suffer by Napalm Death never got on TOTP.