And in something of fitting irony, the BBC originally reported: [url=http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/margaret-thatcher-has-died-from-a-strike-bbc-20130409-2hi5r.htmlMargaret Thatcher dies following a STRIKE[/url

Yeah, it's at times like this that I'm sorry there's no such thing as hell.

And to think that Rugby League fans always claim that they are the best supporters in sport? A family sport?

Some complete and utter scumbags on here.

I really do despair.

Brainwashed idiots.

Good riddance.

Disgustingly evil woman. A shame there's no Hell as it's what she deserves.

It is getting tiresome having to explain again that destruction is so much easier and cheaper than rebuilding.

Are you saying that Gordon Brown should have spent more to rebuild what the tories had destroyed?

The left lost the argument so they demonise and personally attack.

The longest democraticaly elected Prime minister for a hundred years, enough said.

Lefty loons can do one !

A tit has its uses. A brainwashed twit
Is, well, a brainwashed twit.

How am I brainwashed?

I was born during Winston Churchill's 3rd term as Prime Minister. Churchill and the tory administrations of Eden, MacMillan and Douglas-Home continued to build upon the work started by Clement Atlee to renew infrastructure, the biggest house building programme this country had ever seen, the development of the welfare state and the NHS.

By the time Thatcher came to power, I was married and paying a mortgage, even with interest rates that were upward of 15%. I spent my time on the cobbles while on picket duty. I saw the sell-off of nationally owned assets, sometimes sold off back to those who already owned them. I saw swingeing increases in VAT while North Sea oil revenues paid for tax cuts for the rich. I saw the numbers on benefits increase from 2 miilions to 6 millions, again all paid for through North Sea oil & gas revenues and seen as "a price worth paying". I've seen grown men reduced to tears because they couldn't provide for their families. I saw the gap between rich and poor widen dramatically. I saw schoold fall into disrepair while their sports fields were sold off. I saw patients lined in corridors because there wasn't sufficient space in wards to treat them properly.

Don't even begin to tell ME that I'm brainwashed sunshine

"British people's wealth" is an empty and misleading expression.
It could mean that everyone is better off or it could mean that nearly everyone is starving but a tiny minority of unbelievably wealthy.

The fact is that, under Thatcher (of whom we are speaking), the poor got poorer for the first time in over a century.
"One of the better legacies"?
Leave it out.

I should have watched the BBC this morning then. Susanna Reid is gorgeous





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Susannah Roedean?
As thick as porcine manure and can barely string together a coherent sentence.
The only reason I can think of for her being a presenter is that someone is holding out hopes of getting into her knickers.

Intresting thread

Ok. Point taken.

You are a scumbag then.

yet give you a ballot paper and this is what you vote for. dry your crocodile tears. go and ask the nhs that you vote to privatise if they'll fit a backbone for you.

From you, that's a badge I shall wear with pride

What are you on about now soft cock?

I never voted for "this", whatever "this" means. I've never voted tory, nor will I ever

I'm not aware that any of the mods here are attempting to foist their beliefs on to others – and, indeed, actually managing to do so to the extent that they are directly impacting on the lives of others at a practical, day-to-day level.

I am not aware that any of the mods here have, for instance, made decisions that unemployment is a price worth paying (although not by themselves, obviously) and are sitting back watching while others lose their jobs and their homes.

Please feel free to correct this if it is incorrect, but when a person enters politics, and particularly when that person aims for the very top job, and then inflicts on an entire country policies that have huge ramifications for many, many people and communities, and becomes, in so doing, the most divisive figure in that country's politics for a century plus, then I suspect that a lack of sympathy from those who feel that they personally were impacted negatively or those they knew were so impacted, can hardly be revelatory to any thinking individual.

good for you marching, how very political.
just a couple of things.

so not really housebound then, you'll be sure to let the relevant departments know that you are able to go marching.

Not having sympathy and actively celebrating the death of a human being are quite different I would have thought the title of the thread would have been changed.

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is that what they call 'busted'

Ding dong the Witch is dead now at Number 26



Buy the Ella fitzgerald version as judy Garlands is too short to qualify for the charts

Exactly. I'd hope that my family would get some sympathy but as I'll be dead I'll never find out and really couldn't care. As I said earlier, given that her children are a crook and a racist they have my sympathy over losing their mother but thats where it stops.

You are aware that those who have to use mobility scooters can still "march" aren't you?

you don't need to vote tory to vote for privatising the nhs.


now, run along and read your beloved lib dem manifesto, again obviously, after you pored over it several times in 2010.

i particularly like the bit where it says something like, "allow health boards to commission services from a range of different types of provider" or something.

well done, you've got what you wanted, like i said dry those crocodile tears, you're not fooling anyone. soft cock.