Lady Thatcher
Lady Thatcher
RIP Lady Thatcher who died today.
Re: Lady Thatcher
Rejoice at that news, thats not gun fire you can hear, it is the sound of champagne corks popping all over the country.
Re: Lady Thatcher
The bitch is dead, it's time to party, party, party.
Rejoice, as she would have said.
Rejoice, as she would have said.
Re: Lady Thatcher
Boy, am l going to have a handover tomorrow!
Re: Lady Thatcher
You know their going to want to put up a statue to this demented bitch.
At least they can sling her corpse on the funeral pyre that's this country, ironically lit by her.
Perfect timing as well with the unemployed being branded hate figures by her offspring both political and plebs on the streets.
At least they can sling her corpse on the funeral pyre that's this country, ironically lit by her.
Perfect timing as well with the unemployed being branded hate figures by her offspring both political and plebs on the streets.
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max_tranmere
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Re: Lady Thatcher
She did a lot of good and the good was very good, she did a lot of bad and that was very bad - both will linger probably forever. Trade Union reform and the widening of the middle class through increasing opportunity, extending home ownership, working class people ascending into the white-collar workplace, particularly in the south-east (the City previously had been an exclusive club for posh people) were very good things. The absolute decimation of working class areas in the Midlands, the north, south Wales, etc, and putting millions on the dole, were terrible - and problems in these regions still exist today.
She did many things that were political (self-interest rather than for the nations interest) such as agreeing for us to join the European Monetary Union when she knew it would be bad for the country, and it was, it cost us dear, was an example of that. Nigel Lawson had quit as Chancellor, John Major was her new Chancellor and he pushed very hard for us to join. Had they fallen out over it and he had quit she would have been out. She couldn't lose two Chancellor's in one year so she agreed for us to join. A couple of years later we were ejected and it cost the country tens of billions, interest rates were put up as a result (twice in one day actually) and the effects on businesses gong bust and houses being repossessed were savage.
I also remember the aftermath of the 1987 General Election very well, how she was re-elected in June that year and in October (just 4 months into a 60 month term) she pulled the plug on all the subsidies for the shipyards in the north-east. This may have had to have been done but it could have been done a year or two earlier perhaps. She held it off until just after the Election so that when the people realised they had been 'had', it would not matter to her because no one can vote again for nearly 5 more years. I remember a year or two later reading in a newspaper that 'unemployment in the north-east was destroying family life'.
She was quite heartless in various respects, good in other areas. She divided opinion when in office and after she left office too. Some worshipped her and some despised her. That is how she will be remembered now she has died. There will be some people literally in tears today, and they'll be other people throwing parties.
She did many things that were political (self-interest rather than for the nations interest) such as agreeing for us to join the European Monetary Union when she knew it would be bad for the country, and it was, it cost us dear, was an example of that. Nigel Lawson had quit as Chancellor, John Major was her new Chancellor and he pushed very hard for us to join. Had they fallen out over it and he had quit she would have been out. She couldn't lose two Chancellor's in one year so she agreed for us to join. A couple of years later we were ejected and it cost the country tens of billions, interest rates were put up as a result (twice in one day actually) and the effects on businesses gong bust and houses being repossessed were savage.
I also remember the aftermath of the 1987 General Election very well, how she was re-elected in June that year and in October (just 4 months into a 60 month term) she pulled the plug on all the subsidies for the shipyards in the north-east. This may have had to have been done but it could have been done a year or two earlier perhaps. She held it off until just after the Election so that when the people realised they had been 'had', it would not matter to her because no one can vote again for nearly 5 more years. I remember a year or two later reading in a newspaper that 'unemployment in the north-east was destroying family life'.
She was quite heartless in various respects, good in other areas. She divided opinion when in office and after she left office too. Some worshipped her and some despised her. That is how she will be remembered now she has died. There will be some people literally in tears today, and they'll be other people throwing parties.
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max_tranmere
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Looks like they'll be having a party now...
The fans of Glasgow Celtic FC, who descend from Irish Catholic settlers in Glasgow who moved there in the 1800's and since, sing this song at their stadium. I imagine they'll be quite a few pints of beer drunk tonight in the 'green' side of Glasgow: