Mrs Thatcher Resigns - BBC 9 O'Clock News

[stanmarsh14]

The many things I am dreaming of, when she's 6 foot under.

Hurry up there, as I have all this brandy etc to pass through via me kidneys :D

[Moontazra]

I grew up under the middle-class tyranny of this power mad harradin-you would understand had you grew up in scotland, just how bad things were....the iron lady?

her heart was certainly cast in metal!

[darkwebonline]

Remember when those graphics were state of the art?!

[tunasandwhich1972]

2 words that fucked her up Poll Tax !

[snitch5000]

This old bag screwed up our once great country. She caused havoc with the miners, out of sheer vindictiveness. Dont worry Maggie. Theres plenty of coal where you are going. I'm sure old nick will lend you a shovel :)

[elrjames777]

@snitch5000 She "played havoc with the miners" UNION: most of the mines themselves were closed by John Major's government prior to being privatised. The "mixed economy" also received its death blows from Major by railway privatisation and the compulsory contracting out of local authority services :-)

[snitch5000]

@elrjames777 Margaret thatcher and the tories are a bad lot. Theyre no better now than they were 30 years ago. The only people they care to help are their own sort of people, generally speaking the wealthy classes. If you are poor, sick or disabled, and a tory government is in power, then god help ya!!!!

[elrjames777]

@snitch5000 Yes: Radical Tories target vulnerable individuals in a way the old one nation Conservatives may not have approved. Interesting your 30 year span; the irony is that then, as now, spending on welfare increases when Tories are in office (mostly due to high unemployment), whereas armed forces (mostly the Navy) get cut: remember the withdrawal of the big carrier Ark Royal and Survey ship Endurance prior to the "Falklands War": compare that with Cameron's defence review now :-)

[eclectica1]

Ding dong, the witch is dead (politically).

[JFredUK]

She got too big for her boots and her own party kicked her out! The poll tax fiasco made sure of that. Not that her successor was any better. John, 'interesting', Major was about as useful as a one legged man at a bum-kicking contest.

[elrjames777]

@JFredUK Can't agree with you there Freddie :-) Major was pretty useful to the EU in kicking the seat out of the trousers covering the "bum" of the pound sterling: remember the ERM and "black Wednesday" :-) Also, he was arguably a more successful seat cover of the cause of radical conservatism than Thatcher, if the predominant political orientation of ministers in his government is anything to go by; especially considering privatisation of the railways and local government services :-)

[Gorrrillla5]

The greatest day in British politics.......

[faulknmd]

I'm busy practicing my dance moves for her grave.

[Cool2BCeltic]

News flashes are often shocking pieces of news but this was a very welcome one. She was the worst PM I've known in my lifetime.

[PoliticalUK]

What a failure she was.

[madcapoperator]

Im no maggie fan and actally despise her rough hand with the trade unions (hers and scargills 'hold country for ransom' mentality) but have labour really done any better? The attlee government: Absolutely. Wilson: Half and half. Callagham: Crap. Blair: Ok. Brown: Dreadful. I'm just getting sick of this mentality of 'tories are for the rich, labour are for the working class' when brown and blair were almost anything but...

[phillper0906]

Yea, good, fuck off you old witch!!!!

[disuc42]

A Bitch

[MonsterMunchAreAce]

Greatest day in British history, till the day the old cunt dies anyway.

[Dendiol]

@MonsterMunchAreAce What a nasty view you take.

[nakedmambo]

@Dendiol A justified and rational view I'd say.

[Dendiol]

@nakedmambo She may be a divisive figure, but she's still an elderly, ill woman who has children. So I don't think comments calling her an "old cunt" are justified or rational in the least.

[nakedmambo]

@Dendiol In this life, you reap what you sow.

[noelmasson]

@Dendiol You wouldn't be saying that if you were from Scotland.

[Dendiol]

@noelmasson The Scottish should quit complaining about her. Search for "Scotland too critical of Margaret Thatcher" on the STV website and you'll see she was not "an old cunt".

[AidanLunn]

@Dendiol Well maybe she should apologise for her hatred or ignorance of anything outside of the South-East. Scottish industry is still waiting fr an apology from her.

[globaltraveller]

@Dendiol I agree with this sentiment. We Scots are too harsh on her for, unwittingly, she facilitated the return of our Parliament. She has set our country on the road to independence. And she sowed the seeds for the dismantling on the United Kingdom.

For all of that, I am deeply, deeply grateful to her.

[critic188]

she made us stand tall??????????? she turned our country into an a merican cruse missile site

[davedavid86]

Maggie shouldn't have resigned and the BBC should have kept this theme for the 9 o'clock news along with the 9pm news show.

[densaner77]

Mrs Thatcher is one of the most divisive leaders in the long history of british politics. Her clear contempt for half the country was reflected in election results. She never came near a majority of the vote in three elections. Whatever short term economic benefits accrued from her government we are all living today with the social and economic legacy of Thatcherism. Is the UK today either a better or fairer nation than in the past? I don't think so. Let the debate continue...

[caleb4080]

Margaret Thatcher was one of the best priministers we've had! She is not affraid to speek up and make her voice heard! And she wasn't affraid to take us into war when we need to!! Go conservative!!!!!!!

[RavingLoonatic]

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[npe1]

@caleb4080 But, she was not such a great Prime Minister as far as the education system was concerned, otherwise how would we have ended up with someone as illiterate as you posting on YT? Please learn to spell the following words: afraid, speak and Prime Minister.

[buzzclick500]

The worst thing I can say about a politician is, "They didn't do their assigned job," which means they didn't keep the people happy who put them in office. The paradox being that it's NOT difficult.

[Dalek1230]

Greatest:)

[firefighterno1]

The monumental, bombastic, all- powerful TV MAST ident. It represented the best of the BBC. The ident represents the mast receiving breaking news around the world and then transmitting it to the masses with catclysmic devestating shockwaves thunder and lightning flashes. The flashes emmitting from the mast at very end suggest that BBC remains poised -always ready to bring you world news as it happens.The BBC is still the biggest broadcaster in the World. National Shall Speak Peace unto Nation

[torontoboy45]

oh what a perfect day - one of the best of my life. the bitch was stabbed in the back by her own party and boy did she deserve it. the lick-arses, spivs, grovellers and chancers who make up the tory party are alive and well and sitting right behind cameron.

[Dalek1230]

@torontoboy45 Get behind the wal ommie

[CMOT101]

God that was a good day!  I can't wait for the day 'Call Me Dave' is forced to pack his bags and remove his smug face from No 10

[buzzclick500]

" She led her country longer than any other p.m. this century...." OUR public servants don't lead US anywhere. We tell them what we want, and they do it.

[Dalek1230]

@buzzclick500 LOL :) Look at Barrack - Communist - Obama

[buzzclick500]

@Dalek1230 : Can you please make up your mind who to hate with more vigor and intensity? It's very confusing.

[rodjames98]

Evil old bastard who's days are seriously numbered now thankfully.

[Hazzmania1234]

Tdp well done what an amazing point. Your one of the only people who talks sense about mrs thatcher

[erictheviking871]

when is this cunt going to die. i aint had drink for years,but i will throw one mighty fucking rave when she dies. i will dance like fuck to repetative beats for days. take drugs galore ,and fuck work off fr a week . hurry up you horrible cunt.id like to dance on her grave.

[oneinoneon]

@erictheviking871 fuck me mate,yr the cunt,yr the sort of twat that bites the hand that feeds ya,bet you have not got a job and yr wife's a hooker......cunt

[erictheviking871]

@oneinoneon im not your mate,monkey spunk.

[WindAndTheLion]

Maggie Thatcher was the best PM since Churchill... what an amazing leader... wish she would come run in the USA

[alunhughes147]

@WindAndTheLion Maggie Thatcher was the best PM since Churchill..? God..what a pair....there would be a few rich , millions of poor and lots and lots of wars....your crazy

[WindAndTheLion]

@alunhughes147 you write like Goebbels... we are laughing at you

[alunhughes147]

@WindAndTheLion Please dont mention me in the same line as Goebbels , a murdering NAZI.....but Thatcher looks good alongside Goebbels , Hitler , Himmler ect

[WindAndTheLion]

@alunhughes147 nice try... Thatcher is pure Churchill and you're just a NaziSocialist

[alunhughes147]

@WindAndTheLion A Nazi Socialist ?

[Dalek1230]

@alunhughes147 IDIOT THE NAZIS WERE THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY LOOK IT UP

FAIL FAIL FAIL

[alunhughes147]

@Dalek1230 Yes you are right ,Hitlers facists were called National Socialists , and once in power they started out quite well , creating employment for millions of down and out Germans . But the price of Hitlers obsession for power came high . We all know the rest , war , genocide ect . We all know how evil Hitler and his regime was and the price the world had to pay. There were more Germans clearing the rubble of thier bombed out cities at the end than there were building autobans at the start

[Dalek1230]

@alunhughes147 Did well, DID WELL. READ WHAT YOU ARE WRITING , READ IT.

This is why Socialism is spat on, it has made you praise Hitler.

No Response needed

[alunhughes147]

@Dalek1230 ANY goverment that can get into power and solve mass unemployment has done well , lts a pity that the rabble in goverment in Britain today cannot seem to be able to resolve the problem here . My praise was directed at the one thing that Hitlers party did right....reduce mass unemployment . What is wrong with that ? My praise for Hitlers National Socialism stops there . Being {what l consider} a socialist myself l condem everything else that the NAZI party did .

[Dalek1230]

@alunhughes147 This is why socialism fails, y adopting "everyone for all" and abandoning personal liberty, you can get people brainwashed into becoming Nazis, Protect Personal Liberty, Becoming A Conservative

[Buondelmonte123]

@alunhughes147 I'll tell you something. If the UK had compulsory voting as does Australia, [you get fined about $55 if you don't vote], the far right would have much more power than it does today.

[alunhughes147]

@Buondelmonte123 Sorry but l disagree . The low turn outs in this country are due to people being driven to apathy . We have a Conservative government backed by a weak Liberal Democrats who have lost all credibility . Under the Tories unemployment is still rising , drastic cuts in the benefit system have left many genuine people struggling to survive and now there is a massive threat to the Health Service , The Tories act as though we are still a world power , sending our military wherever { 1

[alunhughes147]

@Buondelmonte123 { 2 } the USA wants them while ordering cuts in defense . We give billions of pounds to countries like Pakistan to help with their education system , while our teachers are up in arms over cuts and Pakistan is spending billions on a new nuclear submarine and aircraft carrier . Mass immigration has turned thousands of towns and cities into cultural divided no go areas. So why are the people in apathy......because we have a government that will not listen to the cries of { 2

[alunhughes147]

@Buondelmonte123 { 3 } its people and an opposition New Labour that offers no real alternative . ...In other words , people are pissed off to the teeth with listening to the false promises of greedy , corrupt politicians who seem to be sitting on their backsides playing games with peoples lives ...perhaps we need a Libya or Egypt or Syria to end this apathy...l hope not...but

[Gardenstatehomecomin]

@Buondelmonte123 i don't think so scince most people aren't far right or far left you'd have centrists with more power.

[Gardenstatehomecomin]

@Dalek1230 yes and they had a coalition with the bavarian christian conservative party. why? they shared similar social views. and you do realise the main SOCIALIST party in germany at the time WERE the social democrats.

[buzzclick500]

@alunhughes147 : Churchill was a one-man freak show. Biggest interest in his life: more food. ;])

[Dalek1230]

@buzzclick500 NAZI SCUM

[buzzclick500]

@Dalek1230 : Aren't Daleks those mean, vacuum-cleaner-looking things on Dr. Who...?

[Marnerbanana]

ah this cheers me up no end...

[trademestuff]

And they say that the BBC is left-wing biased, yeah right. "Couldn't even get the support of her own MPs, voted in by 12.5 million people"-trying to instigate that they have gone against the people's will.

[dartaddict]

@trademestuff

A lot of the people who make that claim probably even consider Sky News to be left-wing biased.

[funkship]

she gonna die soon

maybe cameron will follow soon

we need a agood assasination , its been too long come on osama do the deed .

[bolloxinator]

We were in a court watching the poll tax non-payment cases screwing up the court system when someone came in and said 'Thatcher's resigned'. There was a massive cheer from the public gallery, and euphoria which settled down to a sense fo coming out of darkness into murkiness. Who was going to take over the party of the rich and the stupid now? Great day anyway. We sunk her flagship, and she'd gone down with it.

[jazzythegreatest]

right winged priministers ftw!

[fpscockyboi]

anyone up for making some sought of Facebook group to throw a party when she dies?

[SnuggleShinobi]

CUNT

[vermillion303]

This was one of the happiest days of my life. When she dies I will throw a fucking party. Die Bitch, DIE!

[HuggyMackay]

Yes and of course no one dare mention that traitor Scargill who went to Colonel Qadaffi of Libya and who called a strike without a ballot.

[tugwilsond8907]

@HuggyMackay spot on! he is a traitor and how quickly people forget!!

[TheSpineyOne]

@HuggyMackay

bullshit right-wing propaganda. Mug.

[alanpgoodwin]

When she dies, we should decapitate the body and drive a stake through the heart. You know, just to make sure...

[Kevinasp]

I shed tears when I think of the day Thatcher resigned... tears of laughter! People said when she wept that she must be human... I replied "Her tears were for herself, nobody else... she didn't shed any tears for the miners, steelworkers, millworkers and others at the bottom did she?".

[banedon88]

lol I'm feeling Anger through the force. Seriously, the woman did what was necessary especially at the beginning of her time in office. She did over stay her welcome though and really did cast a shadow too large for those that came after.

[lhrlyc]

i cannot wait for the day when we can all sing "ding dong the witch is dead"

[crawleygat37]

Id agree with that. BACK THEN, BBC news was far more informative than it is now..!! Now a days, its all gossip and hear-say, and stories milked to death..!!

[firefighterno1]

The big bombastic all powerful TV mast ident. It represented the best of the BBC. The mast receiving breaking news around the world and transmitting it to the masses with a ctaclysmically powerful shockwave and lightning flashes. The flashes emmitting from the mast at very end suggest that BBC remains always poised and resdy to bring you world news as it happens. They were the days. Bring back the mast and all its glory and might.

[ITW84]

bring back that news theme tune

screw the rave music we've got now

[tractionman]

This country has gone downhill from Thatcher onwards. The bitch ruined our industries. And what about the mines.... Arthur was righ, were now shipping coal in big style. It makes me puke. And what about that twat of a son of hers, when is he going to face the music. Soon I hope now that Simon Mann is back home. I here he is now living in south of spain among loads of other crooks. Oh and the shit has even got his old mans knighthood. Puke,Puke,Puke.

[chelseamrb65]

Tony blair the evil greedy money grabbing cunt and that other scots twat gordon broon have fucked this country up over the last 12 years to the state it is in today.

[proudgooner23]

even though i`d consider myself a labour person , I always liked Mrs Thatcher = a strong leader & we knew she was in charge. Thats the type of leader we need today & am afraid Mr Brown,Mr Cameron just haven`t got it.

[pembo18]

Can't wait til it's on the news that she's died.

[alexmccormack]

Couldn't agree more. This country is shit today because of her.

[daveevans1000]

I thought it should have been "Mrs Thatcher's years of terror are over".

[chelseamrb65]

Lefties and commies all have one thing in common they are all as thick as two short planks always have been always will be.

[pembo18]

We know when to use punctuation, though, to be fair to us.

[chelseamrb65]

Brown will be gone next election the most incompetent prime minister and chancellor since callaghan and healey.

Mrs thatcher repaired their damage through difficult and harsh choices only for spiv blair and clown brown to destroy it all again there is no room for a left wing socialist government in this country again.

I admired thatcher for getting britain back on it's feet again i wasn't a fan of everything she did by a long chalk but at least she got britain successful again in the end.

[iamthestig1]

my dog could do a better job than Gordon Brown.....

[Tomj2110]

So will Brown!

[getntheredj]

A tirent old bitch.....she will die a hated bastard by soooo many!!

[TheZanipolo]

@getntheredj rubbish- the best PM since Churchill

[GodBotherer1]

@getntheredj

Only hated by retarded left wing Marxist lay-abouts like yourself.

She has more balls than the men in the UK House of Commons, the men are too busy sucking the cocks of goat fucking islamic community leaders balancing the budget to focus on welfare handouts for muzzies who come to the UK to sponge in between praying 5 times a day.

[Conspiruhcy]

@GodBotherer1 Wrong, she's hated by the entire population of Scotland. The whole of Scotland can't all be left wing Marxist lay-abouts can we now?

[GodBotherer1]

@Conspiruhcy

Scotsmen are a bunch of alcoholic tightarses.

[Conspiruhcy]

@GodBotherer1 You are sorely mistaken, that is the Irish :)

[GodBotherer1]

@Conspiruhcy

They both speak Gaelic & both can't handle their grog.

[tdp1909]

@getntheredj Hated by the ignorant & loved by those who dig a little deeper & know why she did what she did.

[Buondelmonte123]

While she was Prime Minister my friends and I referred to London as Thatchergrad.

[Kotassium]

@getntheredj You say that so many did not like her yet why did she win three terms as Prime Minister? Hmmm.

[Gardenstatehomecomin]

@Kotassium because the FPTP system allows for a party to win only 40% of the popular vote and a majority government and the left wing vote was split between the social democrats & liberal alliance and the Labour party

[leap2jump]

she is my hero and always will be

[bommmmmmmm]

Just looked at your profile. Lol. A little bitter over your idols fall from power by any chance? She will be dead soon. Party at mine.

[bailorg]

I love that theme music, and even the graphics are pretty cool for 1990.

[ajs41]

@bailorg

These graphics were introduced on Monday 31st October 1988.

[MattTheSpratt]

@bailorg Unfortunately, this look for BBC News was panned due to its' resemblance to Nazi imagery.

[bommmmmmmm]

'ding dong the witch is dead, the wicked witch, the wicked witch , Ding dong the wicked witch is dead'

[tonyregan021177]

A very lame and pathetic comment!