BREAKING NEWS: Former prime minister Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age of 87 after suffer

She had the toughest of jobs.

Cure the UK from years of ultra left wing labour socialist abuse.

The country was known as the sick man of Europe, and with good reason.

Maybe some of the ill wishers would prefer to be at the beck and call of the socialist workers party, where unions ruled the workplace, and the cabinet.

Nightshift workers were taking sleeping bags in to work, and every single public service trade union held the country to ransom. I remember my annoyance, when, as an apprentice, I was forced to join the union, me and the union never saw eye to eye again after that.

I defy anyone to have done the job better, RIP Margaret.

Originally posted by Hopechest
I fully expect to see the Thatcher hairdo make a comeback in the following weeks.

I've already made my appointment.

And a massive Goth revival. Wall to wall winklepickers and frilly shirts.
Personally I'm rather looking forward to it.

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Watch out,the Daily Mail readership are in mourning.
Mess with them and the lynch mob is out.

Originally posted by glen200376
Try growing up in Thatchers Britian and see how much respect you have for her.

I was born in '77, I lived through Thatchers' Britain, and while I am a liberal and agree that she made some mistakes, on the whole she was a strong leader and dragged our country out of a post-war funk and into the modern age alongside the US and Europe - on our own terms.

She did some terrible things, including the Poll Tax and the rolling back of industry, and she did next to nothing on equality and Human rights, but consider where we would be now if she hadn't made all the choices she did. Unions dictate policy in many areas in France and other EU nations today because they DIDN'T fight back. She did.

We would be a hell of a lot worse off if she hadn't made a lot of difficult decisions.

I want a leader with some guts, some conviction and some dedication to this country. I don't want a snivelling, pathetic yes man who panders to corporations and other nations, lies and takes the easy option just to stay in power.

We have not had a leader like her for a very long time. She made decisions as a servant of the people, every politician since has made decisions to keep themselves in power and lining their own pockets.

I should also add that it was the unions who left corpses on the ground and mountains of rubbish rotting in the streets for weeks in the winter of discontent. So lets not pretend that unions are amazing. They did just as much to damage this country, if not more, than Thatcher ever did. I don't want any mass group of thugs running my country, whether they be unions or corporation or bankers. I want my ELECTED to make the decisions.

Originally posted by RoScoLaz

Originally posted by Tykonos "Have some respect!"

for thatcher? not a chance in hell (which is where she will be by now).

I bet she's already closed down half the furnaces in hell and then privatised the other half.

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You have no idea as to how Thatcher destroyed community life in the poor northern working class towns and cities....just because It wasn't profitable

The woman was vile and requires no respect!


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I think it's wrong to celebrate in anyone's death. I found the Americans celebration of Osama Bin Ladens death to be extremely crass, so I won't be celebrating her death. I won't be mourning either. People die, she was getting old and she died.

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Explanation: St*rred!

Oh my bad ... I thought the British deeply understood Irony considering they invented it!

Personal Disclosure:

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Its ok to celebrate the life of this woman but not ok to criticize it?? ...WTH ATS!!

I said something on Page 1 and I meant it and I can tell you for sure I am not the only one who will celebrate this person not being here anymore

Anyone who is not from the UK will see her with rose tinted specs as I have seen in this thread, A lot of people have fallen for the BS MSM have been spieling on about her since she took power!

If you know of what she did you would no way defend her, unless your a heartless capitalist pig!

The woman was evil, not a good bone in her body, she shat on the poor people from a great height and she really enjoyed it!


Capitalism loved this woman....and that is it full stop!

A great day for British Politics.



She will NOT be missed.

How many other parents get to send the RAF looking for their kids lost in the desert. Just for him to try a coup in Equatorial Guinea?
Sir Mark Thatcher could face extradition attempt over failed African coup

Even in death the old bag is still dividing the country.

There's no way in hell she ought to get a tax payer funded funeral.

Let her supporters pay if they want. Free market principles at their finest.

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Just end up making the left look like hypocritical btards. I remember when Chavez died, having it out with the right wingers on ATS who were celebrating his death. I won't be a hypocrite and dance on Maggies grave. Despite what she has done.

I'm not going to get into that game.

I think this thread demonstrates how very much like marmite Thatcher was. You either loved or hated her.

Some people say she made mistakes, but she believed in what she was saying and stuck to her guns. Some may call her a stubborn individual who didn't like to lose face.

Personally I am not celebrating her death, but I certainly will not be shedding a tear. The poor got poorer, the rich got richer. That's the conservative way and she ensured the only winners in her premiership was the rich.

She killed communities by ripping manufacturing out of the heartlands. It was all part of the Bilderberg plan, she was a puppet, but convinced herself she wasn't. When she realised she was she tried taking them on and she was soon ousted!!

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Well there are some that point out she did more damage over a longer period than direct attacks by the German airforce...

For me personally I saw what she did for personal liberties for people and destroyed mining communities, suicide rate's increased and greatly dismantled Britain as a near- self-sufficient world power to one that's owned by supra-national entities.

She's got a lot to answer for, even taking into account fending off the Argentine Bullies in '82...

So, you people think Maggie was evil....try this one on for size!

Rainbows
Jane

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You are totally entitled to deal with her death exactly how you want to......and so am I!

The country will be split tonight on two extreme levels....Total joy and total sorrow, no real in-between

I'm a very peaceful man, I wish for world peace, i wish to end world poverty, I want us all to be able to live as one race on one planet .........but .......I no way feel like an hypocrite in celebrating this females passing

There's only one thing I really agreed with her on even way back then.....to quote the woman herself

“The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.” — Margaret Thatcher,

and this

(On The European Union) “What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.” — Margaret Thatcher,

and finally

“(A unified) ‘Europe’ is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.” — Margaret Thatcher,

Did anybody listen to her then? No. Europe would be a far different place now if she had still had the 'authority' to say "NO, NO, NO"



Rainbows
Jane

We live in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital. Haven't heard anyone speak of Thatcher in favorable terms since her death was announced, apart from an admittedly vacant 17 yo guy who thought she was "kinda cool for sticking it to Argentina"

*sigh*

Originally posted by Cobaltic1978
Personally I am not celebrating her death, but I certainly will not be shedding a tear. The poor got poorer, the rich got richer. That's the conservative way and she ensured the only winners in her premiership was the rich.

And Labour changed that how, exactly?

Lets not forget that every politician since then has had the opportunity to change things. None of them have. She saw the way the world was moving, with the banking and service sectors driving development, and she made the right choice to place Britain at the front of that success.

You can just as easily blame Labour and every successive government for allowing rampant greed and capitalism to destroy what she started.

Originally posted by Cobaltic1978
She killed communities by ripping manufacturing out of the heartlands. It was all part of the Bilderberg plan, she was a puppet, but convinced herself she wasn't. When she realised she was she tried taking them on and she was soon ousted!

So, first you say it was all part of the "Bilderberg plan", but you ignore that she was immensely critical of Europe and refused a single currency. So which is it? Surely if she was "chosen" as you propose, then they could have done far better than choose someone who was against what people believe is their main objective - a one world government.

This is the confusion of ATS. It's a conspiracy when it suits, but when something makes no sense and even disproves that conspiracy, it's just overlooked or remains unmentioned.

Like it or not, the UK was successful for decades because of the hard decisions she made. Yes, closing down the mines was bad, and the poor decisions and lack of controls of all governments since allowed rampant greed in the corporate and banking worlds to cause a collapse. But the nation as a whole is better off than it was because of her, there were not mass deaths and a return to 18h century poverty the way the unionists suggested there would be. Those people lost their livelihoods, and adapted. And I dare say that they are healthier, more prosperous and better off now than they would have been stuck down a hole in the ground for the rest of their lives.

I remember when the refuse wasn't collected for weeks and weeks and weeks. And it wasn't because of the snow. I remember when the lights when out at night and London was in darkness. But it wasn't because of the snow. I remember when the trains didn't run for days. Yet not because of the snow. And I remember also when conversations in the pub where about "what will we do when the 4 minute warning sounds?" - and now all we have to worry about about is the snow. Thank you Maggie! Whatever your detractors might say, and whatever mistakes you also made, Britain and the World ARE a better place because of you