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- oey0
- monospaced0
Who? j/k
- kingsteven0
Last chance to sign the petition for no state funeral :)
- more important things to be signing petitions for/against at the momentFax_Benson
- true datkingsteven
- kingkong0
I suppose it's like any politician or political party, if you benefited from their decisions you love them, if you didn't you hate them. As someone from a family that bought their council house, were able to start a successful business and send their kids to a selective grammar school she was a hero in my family.
To many she was a complete hate figure and destroyed jobs and communities.
Cant help wonder what state we'd be in if it wasn't for what she did, in a globalised world. A bit like France or more like Germany or Scandinavia?
One things for sure given the last two or three I'd vote for her tomorrow.
Funny how much of the spineless politics and politicians in the UK are as much to do with the reaction to not be like thatcher during the 90's. Absolute gimps to a man.
- you can gain personally from a set of policies and still hate what happens to the majority who get left out.Fax_Benson
- Fax_Benson, some people are individualists other people see the whole picture.oey
- How can i feel happy with a good thing that happens to me and as I look around the World is dead?oey
- it wasnt, I saw a whole bunch of working class families where I grew up benefit massively.kingkong
- then that's alright then Kingkong,georgesIII
- yep pretty muchkingkong
- Now imagine if you were a miner, or a farmer or a prole or anyone who didn't benefit from her largessegeorgesIII
- loadsssaa moneyykingsteven
- Ah, that old tory principle of 'as long as i'm rich the rest can do one'isakosmo
- Morning_star0
She did more for the Punk and Rave scenes than any artist ever did.
- Punk pre dates her.kingkong
- and Im pretty sure rave had nothing to do with anti establishment. I only remember the drugskingkong
- in the same way that WW2 was great for peace in Europe.Fax_Benson
- I guess your experiences of the early-mid eighties were different to mine.Morning_star
- clearly
kingkong - erm, rave wasnt exactly political, but its roots were very much from the 'anti establishment'detritus
- I mean, purely in terms of its location and physicality.detritus
- georgesIII0
- wrong threqd..georgesIII
- kill it of the dayoey
- merica boobsmarychain
- instrmntl0
A friend from Ireland posted:
"Finally!! Say hi to Hitler you ****"
- vaxorcist0
it wasn't only what she did, it seemed to be the relish she took in making other peoples lives miserable..... and the rather strangely demonic way she seemed to delight in telling people they "were wrong", often in situations where they couldn't respond... she fought very unfairly and seemed to love it...
- She did seem a quile twisted. And racist. And wasn't she very good friends with Jimmy Saville, seriously.eoin
- eoin0
- detritus0
"And wasn't she very good friends with Jimmy Saville, seriously."
oh come on! EVERYONE loved Savile back in the 80s - even shrewd politically-oriented types who used him as a lumpen means to garner something close to empathy from kids of all the the working class people she's pissed off...
- Fair point. The Pinochet defence and protection is pretty unforgivable however.eoin
- eoin0
- eoin0
- eoin0
- GeorgesII0
Ahahahhahha my sides,
Savile and now thatcher, great days for minors
- detritus0
- Never mind that politics is a fickle realm where people often have to court that which they don't necessarily approve.detritus
- Like Pinochet?eoin
- Like Pinochet.
*shrugs*detritus - (Sadly, I couldn't find a picture of Mandela with Savile...)detritus
- Her affinity for dear murdering Augusto was not political, it was personal. And continued long after she left office.eoin
- Perhaps the two shared common personality traits.eoin
- *shrugs* then we're left guessing at the roots of that respect, aren't we?detritus
- lol @ detritusoey
- Not just respect, support for, and a positive influence over the fate of, a known mass murderer ... *shrugs*eoin
- Obama and Desmond Tutu?oey