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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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11/04/2013 12:44
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While listening to some local radio station today, (Im in Welwyn city of gardens). I heard that "Thatchers son is lost without her"... I actually spat coffee and almost choked. An unfortunate choice of words.
Or possibly carefully chosen For those too young to remember
"RK's way seems the most sensible to me". ali_hire 16 Dec 2010
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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11/04/2013 15:57
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Has anyone checked to see if she's been resurrected yet?
"RK's way seems the most sensible to me". ali_hire 16 Dec 2010
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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11/04/2013 20:28
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I cant understand how people will be having a celebration in central london on saturday to rejoice at her death . I wonder how many on the left and everybody else will feel when Tony Blair leaves this planet .I suspect the left will forgive him (iraq war)and give him a pass . Double standards
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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11/04/2013 22:33
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I cant understand how people will be having a celebration in central london on saturday to rejoice at her death . I wonder how many on the left and everybody else will feel when Tony Blair leaves this planet .I suspect the left will forgive him (iraq war)and give him a pass . Double standards If I'm still around I'll have no idea what they'll be saying. I won't be able to hear it over the party noise...
"RK's way seems the most sensible to me". ali_hire 16 Dec 2010
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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11/04/2013 22:42
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Yay, woohoo, pass the lager.
Wait, we are still celebrating the death of a frail, ill, old lady, right? I'm amazed how many of today's yoof, who have no idea who is in Parliament now, are outraged by someone who left Parliament before they were born. The pot/kettle award goes to........... Glenda's a woman?
"RK's way seems the most sensible to me". ali_hire 16 Dec 2010
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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11/04/2013 23:11
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I wonder how many on the left and everybody else will feel when Tony Blair leaves this planet .I suspect the left will forgive him (iraq war)and give him a pass . Double standards No, I think most people on the left hate Blair nearly as much as Thatcher.
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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11/04/2013 23:32
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A cracker! No prizes for guessing whose side the speaker John Bercow is on then.... I'm off to watch Question Time - where from? Finchley Should be very lively!
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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11/04/2013 23:33
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The hatred for that woman is nothing to do with which party she represented or that she was a woman , it was the decisions she made and how she made them.
There will never be again or ever has been a PM that is held in such utter contempt by so many for so long.
She was an evil cow.
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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11/04/2013 23:42
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The hatred for that woman is nothing to do with which party she represented or that she was a woman , it was the decisions she made and how she made them.
There will never be again or ever has been a PM that is held in such utter contempt by so many for so long.
She was an evil cow. # I think you will find Tony Blair is in the running for that .
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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11/04/2013 23:53
11/04/2013 23:53
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Anyone else remember the ERM fiasco and Black Wednesday when that Arch Eurosceptic Maggie took us into the ERM? Then when we got a royal hiding we had to leave with our tail between our legs some £3 billion poorer? Or when interest rates hit 15%? Consequently UK home repossessions totalled 129,000 in 1990-91 As for the Thatcher boom, it turns out Economists say it was all a pipe dream, it was just oil revenue, and the cash from the sale of the Nationalised industries, which means our manufacturing base was lost for no good reason. http://econ.economicshelp.org/2010/02/thatcher-revolution-1980s.html In 2002 Labour had reduced the National debt to 29% of GDP (From around 44% under Tories) By 2009 the UK National debt stood at 56.8% of GDP (Mainly to d owith the rescuing of the various banks) In 2011 it had reached 68% As of Q1 of 2012 it has reached 86.8% Rather than cutting any deficit, things are now worse than under Labour in the late 70s. Still as they say, there are lies, damned lies and statistics
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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12/04/2013 00:49
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Privatising national infrastructure industries... not convinced that selling me something I already own at a knock down price so I can sell the shares immediately and make a quick buck and then watch the mess of cross-selling and downright fraud that the delivery of those services descended into should ever have been legal.
I'm interested in this. It wasn't long before that many of these industries were nationalised - I'm not sure any of them started as government bodies (railways, mines, steel etc were mostly started in the industrial revolution by private individuals). What makes going in one direction right but going back the other way wrong? I'm genuinely interested to understand this The Railways were nationalised not through political dogma, but because the "big four" Rail companies were basically bankrupt, and in those days before the roads transported most goods, it was an economic necessity that they keep running. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Act_1947 The railways are good example of demonstrating that free market economics are not always successful, as in the rail mania boom many competing companies opened rail lines often very close to each other (as anyone who has ever been to Catford will testify!)
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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12/04/2013 08:49
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There will never be again or ever has been a PM that is held in such utter contempt by so many for so long.
Or revered by so many for so long.
"RK's way seems the most sensible to me". ali_hire 16 Dec 2010
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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12/04/2013 09:47
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There will never be again or ever has been a PM that is held in such utter contempt by so many for so long.
Or revered by so many for so long. Not sure about that - plenty have been unwaveringly keen on Churchill for a bit longer than Maggie.
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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12/04/2013 09:48
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Yay, woohoo, pass the lager.
Wait, we are still celebrating the death of a frail, ill, old lady, right? Are you feeling ok, Brewster - this is a most un-Brewster-like post!
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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12/04/2013 09:52
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Not sure about that - plenty have been unwaveringly keen on Churchill for a bit longer than Maggie. Ah Winnie..another Tory with a successful war under their belt..
"RK's way seems the most sensible to me". ali_hire 16 Dec 2010
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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12/04/2013 09:55
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Not sure about that - plenty have been unwaveringly keen on Churchill for a bit longer than Maggie. Ah Winnie..another Tory with a successful war under their belt.. Hmmm. We're going off topic here, but Churchill's record was not exactly unblemished either. Everyone has their faults...
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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12/04/2013 10:00
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Hmmm. We're going off topic here, but Churchill's record was not exactly unblemished either. Everyone has their faults... He wasn't too popular with miners either - they're a hard crowd to please
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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12/04/2013 10:20
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Or dockyardies... or the Anzacs..
"RK's way seems the most sensible to me". ali_hire 16 Dec 2010
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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12/04/2013 15:23
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Or bomber Harris, at least the (lost) boys do now have a memorial!
Harris took the full backlash of the Government policy for Bomber command and is, to this day, hated by so many. Chuchill never made any public comment on the matter but through the war knew exactly what was going on, supported the policy and encouraged its continuation. Harris refused his war end knighthood due to Chirchill keeping quiet and then left the UK (Recently released documents have proven Churchills involvement).
Yet today one name stands for all that is British whilst the other goes down in history as a butcher.
They used to have to guard the Harris memorial as it was so often vandelised.
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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12/04/2013 18:47
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Wait, we are still celebrating the death of a frail, ill, old lady, right? Don't fret too much, I'm sure it will all die down soon. It's not like us Brits have a history of celebrating someones death, burning an effigy of them and letting off fireworks each year is it?
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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He is in his fifty's and was a Sergeant with the Metropolitan Police and will recieve the full pension,sorry to burst the bubble but can't see him waiting to sign on for job seekers allowance whilist begging for forgiveness. Quite the opposite, he will be inundated with offers
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