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

RIP 'Iron Lady'

may you Rust In Hell

Originally posted by Afterthought
At least one of Thatcher's number one fans is already dead. I hope she's burning right beside him.
www.telegraph.co.uk...

National Archives files show that Savile met with Mrs Thatcher at both Downing Street and Chequers in his successful attempts to secure a £500,000 donation from the government for the rebuilding of Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

The hospital is only three miles from the Prime Minister's official residence, Chequers, and Savile became a friend of Mrs Thatcher. The pair reportedly spent New Year's Eve together 11 years in a row.

Can we say: Power hungry sicko psychopaths?!

Here is another one of her "friends". You can tell a person by the company they keep:-

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It's you that has no idea what I was on about with regards about the 1 down,7 billion to go.
How you came to your comments from that quote I do not know.
Incase you hadn't noticed we already are living in a 'ruptured economy'.
You definitely haven't read me bumming up the unions on here,so it begs the question-what are you on about?

I wasn't around at the time and frankly I'm not as knowledgeable as I'd like to be about Thatcher and the times she was in power.

However I know she polarised opinion.

What I dislike some what is that she is to be accorded the same funeral as a senior member of the royal family would have. Considering how such a vast majority hated her and the current government we have now and the policies they're enacting, it seems like an unusual choice.

I know it won't be a full state funeral, but it will certainly be enough! Winston Churchill yes...Margaret Thatcher...I don't think so personally.

Originally posted by BritofTexas
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?

Just because you seem to think you are clever, you know she paid for that out of her own pocket don't you? I'm guessing you don't.

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And you realise why her pockets were so deep?

Originally posted by christina-66
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We can argue all day about the rights and wrongs with every different decision she made. But the legacy left behind is undoubtedly a greater country that gave us 20 years of growth and prosperity during 90s and 00s.

No - credit cards gave us growth - and the payback has just begun. We were living in a fool's paradise - not a booming economy.

You are referring to the Britain of Blair, are you really so young you can't remember what the total vacuum of ideas gave us in the seventies?

I live in the North East of England. Just off to the pub now to have a few pints with my old man and my grandad to celebrate this bitch finally kicking the bucket.

She basically destroyed my community and we will never forgive her for it.

Originally posted by christina-66
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And you realise why her pockets were so deep?

Please explain? You obviously know something that I don't but I would be interested to know.

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Just off to the pub now to have a few pints with my old man and my grandad to celebrate this b$$$$ finally kicking the bucket.

Yeah that’s right are you going to turn up at the funeral as well and defecate all-over hear grave in front of her family.

I find it interesting that so many members seem to be so politically inept the only way they feel they can express their grievances with her politics is to jump with joy at her death.

Originally posted by Kram09
I know she polarised opinion.

That she did... what will follow in this thread is a complete split in opinion regarding her.

I lived during her time as PM and I have respect for her personally... but I know others have reasons not to.

Fact is she was a leader who had to make tough decisions... The UK economy was in constant decline for over 30 years before her time as PM.. she turned it around but at the expense of some... tough decisions for the betterment of Britain as a whole.


Either way an old lady died... I see no need to celebrate.

Originally posted by glen200376
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It's you that has no idea what I was on about with regards about the 1 down,7 billion to go.
How you came to your comments from that quote I do not know.
Incase you hadn't noticed we already are living in a 'ruptured economy'.
You definitely haven't read me bumming up the unions on here,so it begs the question-what are you on about?

Ummm, no, it begs the question what are you on about. What exactly are you on about then?

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Answering a question with a question,very politician like.
OK I'll bite.
The 1 down thing was to do with Onami's intro thread where she advocated the extinction of the human race.
Now you explain why you thought I wanted to go back to the 70s.
Or were you just ranting randomly?

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All those on the thread moaning about the removal off free milk in schools

The reason free milk was introduced in the first place was because of food rationing during

and after the war...so that children got their calcium etc.


About 40 years after the war and no rationing, there was no need for this so why

would it be necessary for this to continue. If it was still available it would only be adding

to the current obesity epidemic!

They were the best of times and they were the worst of times living in Thatcher's Britain. But mourn her passing? No.

I went from boy to man under Thatcher's rule. Personally the 1980s were a great time for me. The music was still somewhat interesting as we had bands who had something real to say about the issues of the day instead of solo girl artists and pretty boy bands who churn out plastic pop these days.

Computing technology, console games and VCR were becoming better and cheaper. Growing up was really quite good fun for .I was lucky and got a decent job in a time of high unemployment in later part of the decade. But there are many friends and family who were not so lucky and fell on hard times.

Thatcher devastated lives in the North, the Midlands and across the border in Scotland and Wales. She didn't just decide to take on the unions she broke their back and wiped out whole communities. She sold off the nationalised industries to the people who had already paid their taxes supporting them. The deception seemed to fool everyone as she effectively stole them from the public and then lined the treasury with more billions to pay the unemployed. Now look at the power industry, water and railways fleecing us.

A "greed is good, think of yourself" culture was promoted. Everyone could make a killing if only you'd get on your bike and become a stock market gambler errr trader. Action needed taking after the shambles of both Labour and Tory governments in the 1970s but politics became totally polarised just a few years into her reign. Labour leaning to a far left agenda that would never get them elected and Thatcher's far right policies crushing the old industries of the blue collar workers. And come on it was never going to be easy to retrain and get a new career for those who had known nothing else since leaving school.

What we see now in Britain is the fallout from Thatcher's policies. She created the "unworking" class that the Tories are now moaning about. She killed their livelihoods in the manufacturing and mining towns in the early 1980s and they never worked again. Their children believe they never will either and so work the benefit system instead or turn to crime. She cultivated the look after yourself first attitude that can often be seen in public.

I can't say all she did was bad as things needed to change and we can never know which way things had gone had she never rose to power.

But the 1980s were a bitter sweet era for me and my memories of Margaret Thatcher are mainly bitter ones.

It's absolutely fantastic, there is a huge party going on in my town right now, free milk being passed around. Happy days.

Originally posted by Onami
I am from a small valleys town that used to have a thriving coal industry, now it is all unemployment.

This is only a small consolation but I'm going to celebrate!

I am wearing my Union Jack earings already!

Lets all do the conga, lets all do the conga....

You hate her as a politician. I get it. But she was also a human being. A human with thoughts, opinions, feelings, family, friends and more.

Where is your humanity? Where is your heart? Have you no shame? A human being is dead. I am willing to bet that there is not a person on this Earth who has not done something that some one else found utterly despicable.

For example, I suspect many people find your attitude here, despicable.... I know I do.

You and those saying these kinds of things about a person dying, should be ashamed. You really need to do some reflecting and look into your own heart when you are wanting to celebrate the death of a person.

She is far more than her political career. She is a human being and she has died.

Develop your humanity because form what I can see here, you are lacking in that department.

RIP Margaret Thatcher. I hope you are happy and comfortable. I also am sending good vibes to her friends and family that love her dearly. May their suffering and mourning be lessened.

Peace and love.

Maggie showed more balls than any of her male colleagues whether Tory or Labour, she trod on many feet whilst in charge so it is no wonder there are so many bad wishes as there are good wishes.

One thing I will say, Maggie made the world look up and listen as she put the UK back onto the world scene.

RIP Maggie

Wolfie

Originally posted by jazzguy
RIP 'Iron Lady'

may you Rust In Hell

joke got old within about 3 tweets- doesn't make sense, you must be religous, so how she "REST IN PEACE" (which implies going to heaven), yet "rust" (hahahahahahahahah so good) in hell?

Huh, huh broer


HUH BROER?

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My sister in laws sister lives in a small village in the North East and her husband was

one of the miners who lost his job (retired now) when the mines in the area were closed

down. She has said many times that she has never been so well of as she is now