Margaret thatcher dead - Whinging gits thread

[Meat-Head]

Just checking this thread to confirm she is still dead.
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Hey you been reading my script ?

on topic:-

heard on that really really CRSP radio 1 thry wont br plsying that dong witch id desd .... Never heard the song but it has to be better than the crap thry play.

[nush]

Hey you been reading my script ?

on topic:-

heard on that really really CRSP radio 1 thry wont br plsying that dong witch id desd .... Never heard the song but it has to be better than the crap thry play.

[bowie]

i dislike thatcher as much as the next man. i can always remember my grandperents shouting "there she is the bast##d !!" everytime she was on tv. but i'd have to say britain was a better place to live and grow up in during her years

[KDC]

i dislike thatcher as much as the next man. i can always remember my grandperents shouting "there she is the bast##d !!" everytime she was on tv. but i'd have to say britain was a better place to live and grow up in during her years

Aye apart from widespread poverty and social apathy caused through her persecution of the working class hub of the UK and empending poll tax , record unempoyment , draconian Norn Ireland policies , YTS schemes , falklands conflict , privatisation or closure of industries such as - coal mines , shipyards ,steelworks ,British gas ,and North sea oil and anyone who dared to protest set upon by her fascist police state...... It was an absolute joy to grow up in thatchers Britain!

[johnboy1974]

Strange how our kids who were born after Thatcher being our PM leave home and pay council tax and none off them have a riot over paying it. Most start work being paid minimum wage at ?3.68 and don't strike over the pay, even at 18 its only ?4.98.

There was me thinking all the riots of August 2011 in London were caused by the younger generation, and it all kicked off by the same thing- police intimidation.


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[gc1966]

yep,and the party residing in number 10 again using the police as their bully boys.same old tories,different figure head,same policies and ideals

[bowie]

[QUOTE=KDC;1939991]Aye apart from widespread poverty and social apathy caused through her persecution of the working class hub of the UK and empending poll tax , record unempoyment , draconian Norn Ireland policies , YTS schemes , falklands conflict , privatisation or closure of industries such as - coal mines , shipyards ,steelworks ,British gas ,and North sea oil and anyone who dared to protest set upon by her fascist police state...... It was an absolute joy to grow up in thatchers Britain!.

i understand all that, but when i was a kid i didn't know or care what was going on. all i knew was i could go out and play all day in the 80's and be back before dark. i wouldn't dare let my kids go out on their own for 10 minutes these days.

[nush]

then you might be interested to know that crime increased by 79% during her charge.

[Meat-Head]

then you might be interested to know that crime increased by 79% during her charge.

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why was that then?

[GastonJ]

I'm not going to back up his stats, however

It comes with the poorer having even less. They tend to get more desperate and steal to live, always happens. When you can't afford to live and the only way you can do so is by stealing - crime increases. That and a fair number of miners were classed as criminals, in fact almost everyone who protested against her and her policies was classed as a criminal.

[nush]

the stats are available online, it can be argued that the figures were so bad because more people reported crime, but however you choose to examine the figures crime rocketed under thatcher, the reasons are many but desperation would be one reason.

[phil-h]

Hated with a passion, if only for this:

[jordigirl]

av got no liking or disliking for the woman, but a think in these times of austerity why the hell is the tax payer ( a lot of who, hated her with a passion) having to fork out 10 million for her funeral ???

[RedSpider]

Leave the poor woman alone. Everything she did in power, she did because she had to, not because she was an evil witch.
She inherited a poor economy, where inflation was in double figures (peaking at 18%), from the previous Labour regime and she fixed it. Britian was one of the poorest countries in Europe and she made us the third richest.

Privatising industry generated a lot of money which helped the country pay off it's debt.

The unions were long overdue their come-uppance.

The Falklands war is often mentioned as a waste of time and resources for just a silly little island with a couple of penguins. But it was a matter of principle amongst other things. And, since the discovery of oil in the surrounding seabed, it's been shown that it was the right decision to fight to keep hold of the Falklands.
Besides, the islanders class themselves as British and Argentina has never had any real cultural or historical claim on the islands other than that they're close to Argentina.

She got a lot of stick over the poll tax being a tax on the poor blah blah blah but it was not a tax on the poor at all. Council tax is far worse than the poll tax.
Poll tax meant that every working adult in a house paid - A house with 4 working adults paid 4 lots of tax. With council tax, there was one tax bill which those 4 people could pay 25% each. HOT SWEET POTATOES!
Meanwhile, a house with one working adult with 4 kids to feed receives the same council tax bill and has to come up with that money themselves.
Ipso facto, the people with more money are getting a better deal than those with less. With poll tax, everyone was in the same boat.


Besides all that, she's not in power anymore and hasn't been for a long time so the Maggie-bashing is beyond pointless. Especially that, since she's been gone (since she's been gone, out of my head, can't take it), her successors have proper and royally buggered things up far more than she gets stick for.

RIP Maggie (or don't. I couldn't really give a monkeys)

[Meat-Head]

) having to fork out 10 million for her funeral ???

YOU WHAT? Where was the thread agreeing to that? No poll - no pop up warning nothing, who do i report and where to?