At least she had better values than Blair. Come the time, I wont be crying at his departure. I may even do the jig! How the f..k does someone like that become a Middle East peace envoy?? Maggie had way bigger balls, without hiding behind lies. lies and more lies. btw, poll tax no longer exists. Its been replaced by council tax. For some reason my Labour council keep putting it up. Poll tax was a rubbish idea anyway, making people pay per person for services used. Almost like everyone having to buy a ticket to take a bus ride.
Maggie was good for me. I only worked a three day week in the '80's; not because there was no work, because I could earn enough tuesday to thursday to spend monday and friday on the golf course. Rest in peace Mrs T.
I have mixed views really. On a commercial level I think she did a lot for the country and she got Britain working again. However on a social level she caused great misery and was dismissive of the public in general in doing so. I believe that there are ways and means of getting the country working and getting the public on-side at the same time. She failed to get the mix right IMO
Funny that,not a single person I've spoken to thought it worth mentioning. She'd had her time and she died,end of story. She wasn't Gaddafi,or Hitler,or Stalin,or even Pinochet. She wasn't the Devil You obviously had a hard time under her Tory government But a lot of very working class people didn't,including myself But because you have a different view,I won't call you a tosser Your mates the Servicemen,I presume they were volunteers? I mean they were not conscripts,like the Argentines? So they can't really complain that someone sent them somewhere to fight a war,surely. After all,thats what soldiers do... I do feel for the ex-Miners,but they were led by a man who's ego led them into a battle with the Elected Government of this country...they backed the wrong horse,and as usual the least well-off paid the highest price.Scargill and his mates didn't go hungry Trade Unionists are supposed to represent the interests of their members,so it's hardly surprising that they got/get the arse with a Government thats trying to represent the interests of everybody. Everyone has a different view dependent on their experiences at the time. All those views are perfectly valid No need to resort to personal abuse,surely...
Maggie Thatcher Ronald Reagan Cruise Missiles Being an unemployed youth Killing Joke The Specials Smoking Painted Leather Jackets Larger Top An 8th of your finest Gigs Sixth formers I miss it all...:frown: Nostalgia, it's great!
Just a shame he lacked her integrity. Think what you will of Mrs T. but she was straight & principled, what you saw was what you got. She wasn't a slimey, two-faced, liar who used her position to plant the seeds for future nest-feathering...
It was Scargill and the rest of the trade unionists that ruined industry and mining. Look at British Leyland it spent most of its time on strike and the and cars that were built just fell to bits! So we looked to import cars, Importing coal was cheaper. Don't throw all the blame at Thatcher, blame should be apportioned. Anyway I was 5 or 6 when she cam in to power and 16 going on 17 when she left No10 so to be fair never really effected me like others on here. I just like the no nonsense hard headed leader, she left office 24 years ago so why all the anger towards an old lady. May worse political crimes have been committed since. RIP to an old lady with a far more interesting life that any of us will ever have
Yes Mr C.The left never refer to the part that Arthur Scargill played in the miners' strike.He was a Marxist,determined to bring down the Conservative Government.The mining industry like other state owned industries was losing millions of pounds.Striking and picketing was not a sensible solution to the problem.The idea that but for Margaret Thatcher mines in England would still be up and running is absolute nonsense.Similarly Harold Wilson had to close down much of the steel industry in South Wales but the steel woprkers were not attacking the police and these events are rarely mentioned by anybody including the left and the Thatcher haters.
Which is what we in Australia will do to our Communist, criminal, Union moll of a PM if we only could. For all her failings and obstinacy, I'd take 100 Thatchers any day.
"that woman caused more heartbreak and sadness than any other politician in my lifetime." Really.....? Ask those servicemen friends of yours whether they'd rather have given their lives in a justified conflict representing Queen and country, as in the Falklands, or in an oil and gas-fired commercial adventure on behalf of the Halliburton Corporation and friends in Iraq and Afghanistan, then seek out the bereaved of our lost servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan and ask them who sent their loved ones to die in the name of Wall Street and American balance sheets and ask them where they sit on the 'heartbreak and sadness' index..
I have nailed my colours to the mast elsewhere on this thread ,but to be honest it will be many decades before an objective opinion can be made of her as a politician, but I doubt history will be kind.
