Most of those who say the wicked thing probably don't know the Britain before she came along and if they prefer that Britain, then she saved us from them without us having a civil war, for I for one was prepared to fight for my country against the left of the 70's and if you're one of them, then We beat you !

Did you read that article? Everything you need to know is in there.

David Hopper, general secretary of the Durham Miners' Association, said her death was a "great day" for coal miners.
The ex-miner, who turned 70 today, spent all of his working life at Wearmouth Colliery.
He said: "It looks like one of the best birthdays I have ever had.
"There's no sympathy from me for what she did to our community. She destroyed our community, our villages and our people.
"For the union this could not come soon enough and I'm pleased that I have outlived her.
"It's a great day for all the miners, I imagine we will have a counter demonstration when they have her funeral.
"Our children have got no jobs and the community is full of problems. There's no work and no money and it's very sad the legacy she has left behind.
"She absolutely hated working people and I have got very bitter memories of what she did. She turned all the nation against us and the violence that was meted out on us was terrible.
"I would say to those people who want to mourn her that they're lucky she did not treat them like she treated us."

Bloody Guardian deleted my comment about the Pete Wylie song. W@nkers

Do we see that from those from the other side? or is death just a time for positivity?

Will we only be able to see positive messages from the Jeremy Kyle show when Mick Philpott dies whilst everyone else maintains a dignified silence?

Thanks again for showing your complete lack of any grip on reality and facts, particularly when you have the option of paranoid whinging.

Didn't Thatcher leave No.10 about 20 years ago? So therefore the lack of social housing has nothing to do with her. However, it does have everything to do with another party that was in power for 13 of those 20 years.

I went to college in Widnes in the 70's and saw it was a terrible place. It isn't now, you obviously don't know that Widnes or your simply ignorant.

Remind me of Thatcher's words to the nation after the recapture of South Georgia? A week later she ordered the illegal sinking of the Belgrano when it was outside the exclusion zone and heading away from it. 321 sailors were murdered that day. "Gotcha" screamed Thatcher's pet Sun.


Indeed she was.

Really? So why didn't the Labour Party reverse the trend then? They did have 13 years in which to do it.

Margaret thatcher is judged on her own efforts, her own policies, her own idealogy. What labour, the lib dems, the monster raving loony party did before, during and after is irrelevant.

They carried on her policy, but to say it's 'nothing to do with her' is just plain stupid.

Because they're clueless, useless and have zero vision for this country.

Labour had plenty of time to reverse the policy. They didn't and therefore, given that they were in power for a long period subsequent to Thatcher's dismissal from office, the responsibility is theirs. And if you voted for the Labour Party during their time in office, the responsibility is also yours.

Indeed.

Except I see numerous people blaming Thatcher for things that happened under, and were the responsibility of subsequent (or sometimes earlier) governments. I wonder how many of those people have "commented" (I use that term loosely) based on direct personal experience of that era - and the dreadful few years before then - and how many are just repeating what they have been told or choose to believe?

And with that, I am definitely out of here again, indefinitely, before I am physically sick.

Very few, I should imagine.

Thatcher was an ideologue. We havent really had a different ideology since her. Rightly, she is not only criticised (and praised) for her actions, but also the continuation of the ideology she sold.

I reckon there'll be a few in the mining communities feeling a bit nauseous after tonight's festivities!

It closed 20 years ago so presumably and according to that comment he retired at 50 ?

Not a bad old screw if you can get away with it - such a shame that as president of the DMA he turned a blind eye, or maybe even encouraged the in-fighting between his members especially as the Northumberland pits closed during and immediately after the strike and the NCB tried to amalgamate those left of the workforce who wanted to continue in the industry by transporting them to the Durham pits on a daily basis where they were met with intimidation, ignorance and some quite disgusting acts of petty discrimination designed to ward off their "brothers" who dared to come and try and amalgamate into "their" pit (defecating in a persons bait box being a common practice).

Nope, I'm afraid that we were well rid of those types of industrial practices.

Political parties rarely reverse legislation that previous governments have put in.

That Labour didn't reverse the policy does not absolve Thatcher of all blame. And that there are only two parties with a realistic shout of securing a parliamentary majority - neither of whom would have reversed the policy - does not mean that the electorate are responsible for the policy or the problems it has caused.

So to comment on domestic violence, rape, torture, murder etc, you have to have personal experience? Give over.

Cannot comment on your example but i do know that after the strike the NCB were quite happy to foster conflicts between workers. They often tried to use workers from different p[its to undermine workers who were already employed. I have no doubt that there were petty acts but that is what happens when the unions lost and workers became indavidualised and atomised and scared for their own livelihods.

Moving scabs to different pits and then sacking those who would not work with them.

If ting in a scabs bait box was all that happened to them they were lucky

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There must have been a hell of a lot of depaived people around when Hitler died then!