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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 8:48 pm 
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Do they still play all the Top 40 on a Sunday like they used to? I know the good old BBC have said they won't play it, but i vaguely remember hearing some of the charts a few months ago in someone's car and i seem to remember they only played a selection of stuff anyway. Bring back Bruno Brookes. Or maybe not.

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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:56 am 
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There you go.

'Lord Parkinson, former cabinet minister and Conservative Party chairman, said: "This will conserve Lady Thatcher's legacy and teach a whole new generation about the importance of the work she did as prime minister." '

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22141238

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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
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A library?

The Tories have closed most of them!

What a slap in the face.


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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
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It feels like an insult. I don't know what a suitable 'commemoration' would be-as far as I can see there is non necessary,we have the lasting damage to remind us- I really think they should just let her go.


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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
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Any statue in a public place would be desecrated - so lets have hundreds and see which one last the longest.

Mind you they would all be nicked for scrap - keep the thieves away from the rail tracks for a week or two.


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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
PostPosted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:04 am 
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While all the funeral faalah gathers speed, this in the Torygraph. Her evil offspring, dragging us back to the workhouse. x

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/pers ... cants.html


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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:34 am 
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I had the pleasure of being up home in the north east when the evil one died, think I might have spontaneously self combusted if I'd been here in a Thatcher worshipping locale.

I am pleased she is gone now. She lacked respect all through her life for the values I believe in and the people I admire. She lacked respect for the "decent hardworking" folk we are told so much about by our present day politicians and waged war against people who "strived" all of their lives. She destroyed industry and manufacturing and instead celebrated the greed and avarice of the City of London. She loved tyrants like Pinochet and despite all the words of tory politicians she hated freedom of speech. She divided the nation geographically more than any other politician and heartlessly celebrated the destruction of hundreds of northern towns and villages by removing the work that had created them and replacing it with nothing.

Any politician who says "there is no such thing as society" can only be bent on the destruction of positive human relationships based on caring and sharing and I can't admire that. She gloried in war and her celebration of the rights of small islands didn't exactly extend to the island of Ireland where she allowed hunger strikers to die. Her friends were PW Botha, she viewed Nelson Mandela as a terrorist. Of course the real terrorists were people like her son the knighted (?) toothy knacker.

She used the police force as a political force and paid them well to brutalise miners standing up for their livelihoods, their families, their communities and their society - she called these people "the enemy within" - and we are meant to celebrate her and mourn her passing? Really?

I despised her while she lived and despise her in death and there are very few people who have made me feel like that because I do believe in the sanctity of life and respect for the dead. She had a very real negative impact on my life and the community I am from and the places and people I love.

The saddest thing of course is that her legacy is alive and kicking. We have a major housing problem - who sold off all the houses to create a new generation of landlords with no social ethos? We have no industry or large scale manufacturing to speak of - who drove that? We have the celebration of wealth and the poor or even less well paid are despised - who created that world?

She loathed sport and football in particular and was happy to continue the lie that the deaths of Liverpool supporters were sellf inflicted. An evil and despicable woman.

She was the first woman prime minister yet did very little to further the role of women in public life. I keep hearing about her great patriotism. Is patriotism just about war and kicking small countries around? Clement Attlee of course played his part in the Second World War but more importantly he did things for his fellow countrymen and women, enabled a society of respect, of support and of mutual appreciation - he changed our world in the hope that the misery of the thirties would never return (David Cameron should look around him as he gloats in his "rightful" Eton privileged place). No celebration of his life at great taxpayer expense. I keep hearing that Maggie was elected 3 times. Well so was Harold Wilson and he had the good grace to keep Britain out of a war - Vietnam. The precedent is set now. I want a £10m funeral.

Good riddance to bad rubbish and I pray that people will start to look more honestly at her legacy and the damage it is doing in our country now.


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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:42 am 
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Poetry. x


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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
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helenwatson wrote:
Some great stuff out there, providing an alternative to the Thatcher love-in.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013 ... atcher#_=_

Who knew Russell Brand could be so eloquent? x

I loved this too.


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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:49 pm 
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It is a cracking article.

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 Post subject: Re: Thatcher is dead
PostPosted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:41 am 
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maggie wrote:
helenwatson wrote:
Some great stuff out there, providing an alternative to the Thatcher love-in.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013 ... atcher#_=_

Who knew Russell Brand could be so eloquent? x

I loved this too.


Me too. Thanks for the link Helen.


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