Thatcher is dead

[laptop]

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[DotCommunist]

Louise was obviously pissed when she googled last night.

ubermensch always struck me as more of freind to charles, but yes, must have been impaired.

 

[killer b]

no it hasn't.

 

[laptop]

no it hasn't.

Found it. Search failure.

 

[killer b]

hate to be boring, and sure it's been done on here....but isnt the 'bitch' stuff a bit depressing on all sorts of levels ? - it is just sexist crap, it' gives ammo to Tory wnkrs, liberals / fakey feminists etc = witch aint great tbh, but 'bitch' ? it's easily avoided

it makes uncomfortable reading. but at least it shows it isn't just privilege checking left liberals and PC types that hated her. and i've frankly got better things to do with my time than contradict every off-colour remark about thatcher. like scratching my balls.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Louise Mensch ✔ @LouiseMensch

No song should be banned by the BBC unless its lyrics are pre-watershed. Thatcher stood for freedom. She'd have hated #Leveson


That's your one banned then dumbo.

I think the Great Dim One means post-watershed, doesn't she?

To think, the people of Corby had Mensch as their elected representative! What does that say about those who voted for her?

 

[ViolentPanda]

someone that's a little bit woolly - like a whet as they were termed

As I read this post, the chorus of The Damned's fine tune "Liar" is playing in my head.

 

[rekil]

hate to be boring, and sure it's been done on here....but isnt the 'bitch' stuff a bit depressing on all sorts of levels ? - it is just sexist crap, it' gives ammo to Tory wnkrs, liberals / fakey feminists etc = witch aint great tbh, but 'bitch' ? it's easily avoided

I don't like it either but it reminded me that Pinochet used it to refer to Allende during the assault on the presidential palace - 'Kill the bitch and you destroy the litter' or thereabouts. So defo not sexist.

 

[ferrelhadley]

I think the past week has been a bit of a rude awakening for the tories. They seem to live in a world where the middle third of the UK is really conservatives at heart but Labour have been winning because of weak conservative leaders\the bbc\fake economic boom or some such nonsense. But the kick back against Thatchers deification has left them floundering. The football is the real kick in the balls for them. The sort of 'salt of the earth' (i.e. working class but with enough income to afford a season ticket) types they dream about, Pebble Dash Man, White van man, Essex man etc etc etc, and yet they cannot be trusted to give the Dear Leader one minutes worth of silence.

They always assumed there was a huge reservoir of love for her and their core ideals. Instead they are finding that while most are not participating in the 'ding dong' type stuff, they are not able to raise much ire beyond their core tory heartlands for it.

The whole process has been polarising not unifying and they are on the wrong side of the numbers.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think the Great Dim One means post-watershed, doesn't she?

To think, the people of Corby had Mensch as their elected representative! What does that say about those who voted for her?

don't be dissing corby

 

[danny la rouge]

where are the proceeds going for the notsensibles song?- I have heard on the twitter that it is miner's charity- which would be excellent,if true, can't find any link to say it is going to a miner's charity

I'd be happy if it just goes to the songwriters.

 

[ViolentPanda]

You spineless lying bastard. We know what you meant. At least have the guts to stand by it. Pathetic.

Hoow can he have guts? He's a right-winger. Only about 10% of 'em ever have the courage of their convictions when it comes down to it. Why do you think so many of them smell of piss?

 

[laptop]

I'd be happy if it just goes to the songwriters.

Utopian, but fair.

 

[ViolentPanda]

don't be dissing corby

I'm not, I'm dissing those denizens of Corby far enough removed from reality to have voted for la Bagshite.

 

[ViolentPanda]

She's doing "oh, you!". No stern eyes there.

Why would Queen Liz hate someone who tried to take military honours from the Queen's services lol. (Edit, to clarify, wasn't there some controversy about Thatcher inadvertently taking salutes or summat post Falklands? Can't find it). Aye, I think she couldn't stand her.

Wasn't inadvertant, whatever Thatcher's private office claimed afterward. Her protocol Johnnies would have made everything clear to her. She usurped the queen's role to take that salute. There were a lot of pissed off squaddies and brass at the time. Your oath is to the monarch and the nation, not to the Prime Minister. Thatcher taking the salute was an insult, to the military and the queen.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is Mensch really that stupid?

There haven't been enough incidences in the media of her making a berk of herself in the last couple of years for you to not need to ask this?

 

[killer b]

Thatcher taking the salute was an insult, to the military and the queen.

i'm all for insulting the queen tbf.

 

[laptop]

The BBC's fudge has created another problem.

Either the script runs:

"And number N in the charts this week is this: [phono: 5s] 'ding-dong the wicked witch is dead'..."​

Or the announcer has to pronounce the dread title of the song. I have an image of someone sat in an empty studio practising saying it with a mixture of funereal gravitas and ironic audio quotation marks...

I'm hoping for this, and the clip to be the "really, most sincerely dead" bit

 

[weepiper]

hate to be boring, and sure it's been done on here....but isnt the 'bitch' stuff a bit depressing on all sorts of levels ? - it is just sexist crap, it' gives ammo to Tory wnkrs, liberals / fakey feminists etc = witch aint great tbh, but 'bitch' ? it's easily avoided

Whilst I completely see where you're coming from, I also feel that calling an unpopular female public figure a women-specific insult ranks fairly far down on my list of shit women have to struggle against.

 

[eatmorecheese]

I think the past week has been a bit of a rude awakening for the tories. They seem to live in a world where the middle third of the UK is really conservatives at heart but Labour have been winning because of weak conservative leaders\the bbc\fake economic boom or some such nonsense. But the kick back against Thatchers deification has left them floundering. The football is the real kick in the balls for them. The sort of 'salt of the earth' (i.e. working class but with enough income to afford a season ticket) types they dream about, Pebble Dash Man, White van man, Essex man etc etc etc, and yet they cannot be trusted to give the Dear Leader one minutes worth of silence.

They always assumed there was a huge reservoir of love for her and their core ideals. Instead they are finding that while most are not participating in the 'ding dong' type stuff, they are not able to raise much ire beyond their core tory heartlands for it.

The whole process has been polarising not unifying and they are on the wrong side of the numbers.

This is what I'm (optimistically) thinking. My Facebook feed tends to confirm that the Thatcher fans are frankly astonished by the strength of the negative reaction. (I have a lot of school peers from the 80's and early 90's on Facebook, who I haven't ever seen socially since leaving school. All public school boys).

It's all fallen back to raging against the lack of "respect" for the family, etc. On the fundamental ideological/political points, they have fallen silent. For now...

 

[SpineyNorman]

Loadsacunts.

From the comments:

David Cameron is the illegitimate son of Agusto Pinochet and Carol Thatcher . In 1982 , Carol was sent by her mother as an emissary to Pinochet .They became lovers and David was born in London 9 months later . At the christening , Saddam Hussein and Suharto were god fathers . every dictator alive at the time was there , and Britain gave them guns as souveniers . Not pistols mind , nuclear weapons and sarin gas .
Then they sat down to a meal of downtrodden poor people spiced with garlic .
After a ceremonial burning of an argentine flag in the middle of a pentagram , they all retired to watch re-runs of the footage of Major Bill Dawson saying ” 'I can confirm that white flags are flying over Stanley, the Argentines have surrendered - Bloody marvellous'.
The islands are actually going to be renamed the Islas Pinochet , in recognition of his help in 1982 .

LOL

I recognise that style of punctuation - is that you Casually Red?

 

[Dogsauce]

I'm not, I'm dissing those denizens of Corby far enough removed from reality to have voted for la Bagshite.

Sadly, her walking away from that seat has denied us a Portillo moment in 2015.

Still, there will probably be a fair few of those to enjoy (before the reality check of a shit Labour government takes over). Clegg's defeat will probably be the most cathartic.

 

[treelover]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/apr/13/margaret-thatcher-protests-cuts-live

live updates, I don't think the protest tonight is going to be as epic as is hyped by the media..

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

I've kept a cool head all week and barely listened to any MSM, glanced at some threads. It's waning now. I'm on a politics page on Faceache which is populated quite evenly on one hand by centre to leftists who are generally reasonable. On the other hand it's a virtual festival of ignorance and hateblame. The Thatch droolers keep banging on and on and on about "standing up to foreigners" and not one of them has answered my perfectly reasonable question regarding what it says about a person that she was a loyal friend to a man who had supporters of democracy raped with dogs.

 

[teqniq]

Margaret Thatcher the tax snatcher? Mystery of her £6m house with links to THREE tax havens

Margaret Thatcher’s £6m London townhouse is owned by a mysterious company with links to THREE notorious tax havens.

Financial experts said it could have been a scheme which would help her estate avoid millions of pounds in inheritance tax.

But because her affairs are shrouded in such extraordinary secrecy it may be impossible to find out.

The trail leads to offshore businesses in the British Virgin Islands with links to Liechtenstein and Jersey.

The £6million property she lived in for more than 20 years is owned by Bakeland Property Company, based in the BVI.

The company’s official address is a PO Box in a small town in Liechtenstein and it had its original roots in St Helier, Jersey.

Any suggestion of avoiding a £2.4m inheritance tax bill will spark outrage following the row over who is paying for Thatcher’s lavish £10m funeral....

 

[8115]

£10m funeral?

 

[JTG]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/apr/13/margaret-thatcher-protests-cuts-live

live updates, I don't think the protest tonight is going to be as epic as is hyped by the media..

I don't either, largely cos it's a party not a protest

 

[sunnysidedown]

Whilst I completely see where you're coming from, I also feel that calling an unpopular female public figure a women-specific insult ranks fairly far down on my list of shit women have to struggle against.

For me the word 'Bitch' has a Jackie Collins tough woman thing going on, Thatcher doesn't deserve that title.

 

[JimW]

Have i the chronology of this week right?

Monday Thatcher dies.
Friday Munchkin Fury At Maggie Ding Dong Song.

I am still laughing like a drain at this post the next day. Sterling work.

 

[cantsin]

it makes uncomfortable reading. but at least it shows it isn't just privilege checking left liberals and PC types that hated her. and i've frankly got better things to do with my time than contradict every off-colour remark about thatcher. like scratching my balls.

agreed on all points, but just dont enjoy the likes of Grace Dent, a working class woman (turned meejah lovey, yes , but no "left liberal and PC type " ) , getting turned off by the uneccessary surface level misogynism. No biggy in the grand scale, ofc.