Thatcher is dead

[nino_savatte]

Mensch continues to delude herself.

Louise Mensch ‏@LouiseMensch

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It's so funny watching lefties pleading #ImInLoveWithMargaretThatcher is satire - because #DingDong was actually ABOUT her. #AllInTheTitle

She's joined by the self-styled "UK's #3 libertarian blogger". 3rd is nowhere, you chinless wonder.

Mark Wallace ‏@wallaceme

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@tweeter_anita that anti-Thatcher forces who could once bring the UK its knees are reduced to buying a song sums up the scale of her victory

 

[rekil]

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.

Biatch would be better?

What up biatch.

 

[2hats]

Time spent on parliamentary tributes to Churchill: 45 minutes.

Time spent on parliamentary eulogies to Thatcher: 7.5 hours. Plus the cost of specially recalling MPs...

 

[danny la rouge]

Mensch continues to delude herself.

Anyone pointed her towards what band member Steven Hartley told the BBC?

That he was surprised Tories were buying it, and that the song had been conceived as a satirical swipe at the former Conservative leader.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21241791

Or is it funny watching him say that, too? I mean, I think it is, but does she?

 

[cesare]

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.

Ta VP! I looked everywhere on google and couldn't find any references to it, I thought my memory was playing tricks on me.

 

[DotCommunist]

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

fair enough. It can't have swung solely on the rural blimp vote so there must be a good chunk of working class tories in corby. Stockholm

 

[butchersapron]

Mark Wallace ‏@wallaceme
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@tweeter_anitathat anti-Thatcher forces who could once bring the UK its knees are reduced to buying a song sums up the scale of her victory[/QUOTE]


Maybe wallace, maybe not, but either way, this is still a picture with you in it and always will be. Whose winning now then?

[/quote]

 

[ViolentPanda]

Ta VP! I looked everywhere on google and couldn't find any references to it, I thought my memory was playing tricks on me.

A lot of the Bufton-Tufton end of the Tory media don't mention it, because they know it was "bad form", and even Tony the grinning shitlump never did anything that egregiously self-regarding.

 

[cesare]

A lot of the Bufton-Tufton end of the Tory media don't mention it, because they know it was "bad form", and even Tony the grinning shitlump never did anything that egregiously self-regarding.

It was a coincidence that Idris asked that question about the relationship with Liz cos we'd been discussing it earlier. "Taking fucking liberties" was how it was perceived at the time, adding to the unrest/anti.

Edit: not surprising it's been so completely buried. Wish I could find some coverage.

 

[weepiper]

Jenny Haston ‏@avengemydeath
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Brilliant moment in george square where someone tries to set fire to a cardboard #Thatcher and two police rush over to stamp on her face.

 

[weepiper]

Another one from Leith

 

[Idris2002]

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.

Maybe, but there would have been an element of machismo involved in referring to Allende as a "bitch".

 

[rekil]

Maybe, but there would have been an element of machismo involved in referring to Allende as a "bitch".

/seriouscat

Mark Wallace ‏@wallaceme
3m
@tweeter_anitathat anti-Thatcher forces who could once bring the UK its knees are reduced to buying a song sums up the scale of her victory


Maybe wallace, maybe not, but either way, this is still a picture with you in it and always will be. Whose winning now then?

He should be getting his affairs in order, not pissing about on twitter.

 

[nino_savatte]

Anyone pointed her towards what band member Steven Hartley told the BBC?

That he was surprised Tories were buying it, and that the song had been conceived as a satirical swipe at the former Conservative leader.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21241791

Or is it funny watching him say that, too? I mean, I think it is, but does she?

She's put her fingers in her ears, I think. I know it's been said before, but fuck me, she's dumb.

 

[sunnysidedown]

Not sure if anyone has posted this interview with Chris Knight that was on ITV

 

[Favelado]

"It's a catchy tune."

 

[J Ed]

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

Emma Cowing also reports via twitter that police in George Square, Glasgow confiscated the burning effigy of Margaret Thatcher after the Union flag attached to it also began to burn. Without an effigy to burn the protesters did a conga and chanted "Maggie maggie maggie, dead dead dead"

 

[nino_savatte]

Anyone seen this?
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/...evolutionary/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1

A radical film about a radical woman.
Martin Durkin's controversial thesis is that Margaret Thatcher was a working class revolutionary.

A what?

 

[belboid]

Not sure if anyone has posted this interview with Chris Knight that was on ITV

christ, he's such an embarassing arsehole.

 

[laptop]

Anyone seen this?
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/...evolutionary/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1



A what?

Martin fucking RCP Durkin

 

[J Ed]

Anyone seen this?
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/...evolutionary/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1



A what?

Spiked/LM are a very dangerous cult.

 

[nino_savatte]

Spiked/LM are a very dangerous cult.

They are, indeed. I had loads of encounters with them when they were the RCP in the 80s.

 

[belboid]

Spiked/LM are a very dangerous cult.

they're not dangerous, they're just fucking irritating right-wing media whores

 

[J Ed]

they're not dangerous, they're just fucking irritating right-wing media whores

I'm not so sure, I think groups like this are useful for redirecting criticism of neoliberalism into a political ideology which pushes for more neoliberalism, this hasn't been pushed as much here as it has in America but it's coming...

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

So, all these people they're going to nick at Trafalger on Saturday on spurious grounds - I wonder what sort of bail conditions they'll be giving them? Pretty obvious there will be a 'stay away on Wednesday' clause, won't there?

someone who got nicked last Monday is banned from central London until the 18th in his bail conditions

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm not so sure, I think groups like this are useful for redirecting criticism of neoliberalism into a political ideology which pushes for more neoliberalism, this hasn't been pushed as much here as it has in America but it's coming...

its a totally different culture, common language and history aside. It won't, hasn't, have the same traction here. imo etc

 

[belboid]

I'm not so sure, I think groups like this are useful for redirecting criticism of neoliberalism into a political ideology which pushes for more neoliberalism, this hasn't been pushed as much here as it has in America but it's coming...

I'm not convinced. No one pays them any attention, really, and when they get heard at all, they, overwhelmingly, just sound barking.

 

[J Ed]

its a totally different culture, common language and history aside. It won't, hasn't, have the same traction here. imo etc

I'm not so sure, Murdoch is cosying up to UKIP, I can see them fulfilling a similar ostensibly 'libertarian' but in reality populist right role here with Murdoch press backing as the Tea Party with Murdoch's backing did in the US.

 

[JimW]

I'm not convinced. No one pays them any attention, really, and when they get heard at all, they, overwhelmingly, just sound barking.

Not that I think it means a massive audience, but isn't that Clare what's her face forever on the BBC? Doing their bit for the cuntocracy at least.

 

[belboid]

Not that I think it means a massive audience, but isn't that Clare what's her face forever on the BBC? Doing their bit for the cuntocracy at least.

I think she is fucking the producer of Moral Maze. No other reason she can get on so often - its certainly not due to her having anything interesting to say.