The pathetic exit of a despot from office. Her father may have been a role model of virtue and hard work for her, but he forgot to cement in her head THE FACT THAT BRITAIN ALSO BELONGED TO THE WORKING CLASSES WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN WORLD WAR 1, AND WORLD WAR 2, in order for her to be nurtured in this land.In 1984 she bashed the strinking miners and deprived their families of Social Security Benefits to punish them,which can only point to her despotic conduct. Now she has her punishment.
@kitesurf4life How strange is your comment in that you delight in Thather's kicking the Miners' ass, when I was explaining that THEIR CHILDREN WERE DEPRIVED OF SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS SO THAT THEIR MOTHERS CAN FEED THEM. I sense that you might be AMERICAN,if so,then your comment is welcomed as evidence of your UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT OF CAPITALISM as adopted by the USA where nearly the poor people CAN'T EVEN GET ACCESS TO BASIC MEDICAL TREATMENT Obviously you have no understanding of UK.
@ZadZadrack No, i'm not american, i'm french (as i said already, but that is not important) so everything following your "if so" is wrong. You are just dealing with the common problem of the visible against the invisible. You are aware of people who suffered Thatcher's policies (they are the visible) but you ignore who was saved thanks to it (invisible but not less real).
@kitesurf4life:Thank you for your comment about the 'VISIBLE' AND 'INVISIBLE' effects of Thatcher's reign as Prime Minister.Now that you tell me that you Are French,I must say,if it had not been for the Miners' fathers,uncles,grandfathers,etc.France and you would now have been under HITLER'S NAZI RULE.Think about that,for it was the soldiers of the British,American,Polish,Australian,Indian,etc. who sacrificed their lives to FREE YOUR COUNTRY (FRANCE) and give you your FREEDOM,and not Thatcher.
@ZadZadrack yeup... again the miner's fathers, uncles etc are the visible ones. I also think about the one who are invisible and who are as nice and respectful than the other ones but slightly more numerous. And i prefer to insist: invisible does NOT mean unreal, those peoples existe really, simply YOU are unable to know who they are.
@ZadZadrack The French would not have been under Nazi-rule, if they had not started war on Germany. Simple, isn't it?
And if Polish dictator Pilsudski and his Polish terrorists had not enslaved 6 million Ukrainans and 2 Million Germans under alien rule, with BRITISH help, they would not have provoked a war either. It was actually the British Empire who created the conflict in Versailles 1919. You Brits don't know anything about your own country's history.
@Elberiver11 Please, by all means express your opinion about 'ZadZadrack's lack of historical knowledge/level of ignorance, but don't make assumptions about 'us Brits'...there are after all well over 60 million of us living here, and as with any country, the spectrum of knowledge, intellect, education, logic, prejudice and personal values is a very wide and varied one. (you're right, I detested Thatcher)
@ZadZadrack So what's "freedom" to you? Invading Iraq and killing 1 Million innocents like Britain and USA did?
Everbody has seen the pictures how you tortured innocents in Iraq, and how you killed children. So don't bitch about my country, as long as yours is doing far worse. I dont see the Germans starting any wars, the British and Americans started countless wars and killed millions since 1945. Is that your idea of "freedom"? lol
@kitesurf4life Unfortunately great leaders like Thatcher are rare. She was probably our best prime minister for the last 100 or so years, her only flaw was she rushed half of her plans through and by the time she got all the leaches off welfare and the public sector to a reasonable size, the economy couldn't grow fast enough to take in the unemployed. Labour cover unemployment up because people on welfare don't count as unemployed.
Her governments sold everything we had for fuck all and then left us with fuck all. The idiots that bought up the under priced shares and sold them for a quick quid and rubbed their hands in glee at the value of their homes never gave a thought for the next generation.
@Iazzaboyce her government sold everything that wasn't making any money. She left this country three times as rich as it was when she came into power, and when she left, she didn't leave shit loads of debt that the next three generations will be paying off.
@garethp no, agree she doesn't deserve a state funeral, she'd rather deserve a worldwide funeral for showing us the right path. Even me in france i admire her. when you were lucky enough to have thatcher, we had mitterand, the worst shit that could ever happen to a country.
the day that evil evil women dies i will stip off and run around laughing......that goes for the rest of the people those lives she destroyed....rot in hell you bitch
Yes I class destroying our industry so that now our global performance in GDP is pathetic and we have no chance of returning to supremacy a really much better state than when Maggie Thatcher arrived. Congratulations! :/
@samwillown What fucking industry???.....the fucking unions were running the country and dictating terms to the labour government and that meant a fucking strike every other day for the the rest of the year. i was only 18 when thatcher came to power and i couldn't get a job cos no one was working. Now i am a self employed plumber thanks to her "get up and go" mentality
despite having completely different ideological views from her, and disagreeing with some of her actions, i cannot help but respect this woman, as she was extremely strong, didn't take crap from anyone.
@gothicemo2011 you are so right!!!...Hitler would have had a field day with the following labour governments!!.....just as the falklands would be under Argentinian control by now if labour were in charge when they were taken the first time around.
I laughed so hard when that evil bitch was stabbed in the back by her own cronies. Jingoistic, condescending and lacking any compassion. Only Blair is worse
Corruption in government? You meaning sipping tea with despots like Pinochet and ordering the of the sinking the Belgrano when it was sailing away? I've read your over blinkered condescending opinions on here and you're a revisionist troll. Take your Thatcherite Oedipal fantasies elsewhere
@wingslyp Pinochet gave us territory during the falklands war, we shouldnt forget that. Belgrano was an instrument of war and was moving away but towards another vantage point within the exclusion zone(plus all is fair in love and war). The falklands was only deemed a pile of rocks in the S.Atlantic but is worth billions now due to the oil discovery. Not a bad shout at the end of the day really is it??
Guess it's not a bad shout, collaborating with murdering dictators and starting a war to save your political skin and the potential of oil exploration. Don't try and add integrity to Thatcher; she is as conniving and insincere as any politician.
@wingslyp Thatcher didn't start the falklands war. The oil/gas was discovered nearly 20years after the conflict ended. Yes,she may be conniving and insincere but hey, name me a politician who isn't??
She used the conflict to her advantage to gain another term in government. I dislike how revisionists on here and the film see her as some saviour. Yes Labour (New and old) and the unions didn't do us any favours but her legacy is a selfish amoral country, much like herself and as you pointed out like all politicians. She wasn't spectacular, she was another ordinary scheming MP
she was so fucking horrible her own cabinet got rid of her, hope the old bastard rots in hell i hate the old bastard, hope she's in terrible pain the last few years of her life, i hate her with every fibre in my body
There she is in all her insincerity - we all know how upset she was when she had to leave and yet again she performed a different feeling for the British public. The smile that covers. But it doesn't cover. That's one of the many problems with her kind of mind set - thinking people cannot see 'behind' the mask. Be truthful. People can see truth as much as they can see the above.
She put my dad out a job when she killed the steel industry saying it would be cheaper to import it rather than make it. I had to eat beans and toast everyday for a year because of this wrinkly old bitch. 20 years on and im still fucking fuming about it!
@TheFlyingScotsman01 Maybe he should of worked harder in school and had higher aspirations than to be a laborer? Maybe we should all just sit around smoking weed in our own shit, since that's clearly what you'd rather happen than to take a hit for your own country
He was a straight A student and passed every exam he sat in school actually and was a crane driver at the steel works, you know, a skilled worker? Fortunately a year later he got a job in the construction industry operating cranes to erect the steel frames of buildings and no i wouldnt rather we all sit around smoking weed unemployed as 1. it finances terrorism and 2. unemployment doesnt do our economy any good. Ending 1 of our largest industries insnt exzactly a hit either mate.
Forever loving maggie. Glad your heroine inspires you. From my community point of view, she shut the miners down because she had a beef with them (ie ted heath in 1974). She even had the temerity to close our pits down and import polish coal. Now that's how to keep communities thriving, go to jolly foreigner and let them put local people on the dole.
I cried my eyes out. Really, I had hoped that she had left the building. horizontal. Preferably in a box. Privatise her funeral and let the people of our country 'pay at the gate'. Can we bury her at markham main pit?
"After eleven and a half wonderful years".... for who exactly? The embodiment and promoter of greed and self interest is finally stabbed in the back by the people she stabbed in the back.
The Iron Lady. Clanking away into early retirement. The Iron Lady. Hard as nails. Like iron. Hard, she was. That's why they called her the Iron Lady. Hard hitting. Hard faced. The Iron Lady with a face of marble. The Woman of Stone. Old stone faced Maggie whose ugly mug could turn people to stone and make Medusa cringe, whimper and run for cover. The Iron Lady. Trying not to cry tears of tungsten. Clanking to her car. The Iron Lady. Going home ... to the iron ... and ... And the ironing. : )
@UDSS Enemy to what workers? She relieved the workers of tax and shut down unprofitable and backwards industries.
I pressume by this you refer to the mines, but as a marxist you believe against exploitation - so why must you support such a backwards industry with awful working conditions? explain that one.
See the problem is your ideology isn't supportive of true communism, you just support Stalinist communism, which is responsible for stavartion and loss of 100 million.
In keeping with the great lady's legacy, Margaret Thatcher's state funeral should be funded and managed by the private sector to offer the best value and choice for end users and other stakeholders. The undersigned believe that the legacy of the former PM deserves nothing less and that offering this unique opportunity is an ideal way to cut government expense and further prove the merits of liberalised economics Baroness Thatcher spearheaded.
@Never3rd Oh don't be so pathetic. She was a democratically elected prime minister, not a dictator. Regardless of whether you love her or hate her, she fought for and won the position and so she should get the same treatment as any other head of state when she dies. By your logic every prime minister of the last 30 years should be buried by the private sector.
@steve5312 As the petition says, she deserves nothing less than the honour of a privatised funeral in the spirit of her liberalised economics. Anything else is an insult to her legacy and - to be frank - an insult to those of us outside of the south-east who suffered under her regime.
@Never3rd No, she gets a state one as she was a Prime Minister and there is incredible public interest of her, just like every other PM, execpt she is very much so exceptional.
Your comment is just a copy and paste of some Guardian crap, which isn't witty, merely intelligent nor funny, it's just sick and I'm disgusted that such a paper would hold such a view, when one considers that they 'have more morality than the daily mail' (even though the DM show respect for all our PMs)
@ForeverComplaining If you can't see the irony in her taxpayer funeral then its no wonder you're her fan in the first place. Some may admire her, but the celebrations when she dies are no joke. She did a lot of damage to this country and that will be her legacy for most of the UK.
@Never3rd No, there isn't irony. State funerals aren't owned by the state... they are funded by it and this is because the individual had immense service to the country (Prime Minister or Monarch).
The whole idea of a state funeral is so that the whole public can get together and celebrate the life of an influential (democratically elected) figure.
And it's no wonder you're a hater if you can't differentiate between a state funeral and state control of industry.
By that you're implying that all industry was profitable, it's ok for undemocratically elected unions, run by multi-millionaires to control us all, it's a great idea to penalize low earning private sector workers, just to keep open useless unprofitable industry which gives a tiny minority of our population backwards, employment.
@ForeverComplaining Its good to know you value "profitable" industry over peoples lives (which depend on their jobs). If you understood circulation in the economy then you might re-think Tory bullshit. And using "undemocratically elected unions, run by multi-millionaires" is a laugh considering who benefits from privatisation (undemocratically elected multi-millionare executives and shareholders). Society is paying for Mrs "there's no such thing as society"s funeral = irony.
@Never3rd So presumably you'll be asking for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to have privatised funerals as well? Or more specifically, funerals whose costs are fronted by private companies who are then paid back ten-fold over the next thirty years by the taxpayer?
I strongly disagreed with the way Tony Blair ran the country but I wouldn't deny him a state funeral. He worked hard to get there and he was democratically elected. That's the nature of party politics - you can't please everyone.
People find any excuse to belittle or insult her (just check other videos). One example is the milk snatcher idea. JESUS CHRIST, it's not that big a deal. People are so twisted and corrupt.
@AtlasRezzed Well, anyone who supports burdening low income workers, or anyone for the matter, having to pay higher tax rates to fund milk, which was disgusting and out of date by the time the pupils recieved, is clearly left wing as they like burdening tax payers and giving people a load of shit, as it doesn't matter, just so long as the state offer it, even if it's substandard to privatised service (which is always the case)
The Nissan car plant in Sunderland (est 1986, aided by the Thatcher govt) currently produces 450,000 cars annually with a workforce of 5,500. It is the most productive car plant in Europe (Telegraph, 4th Jan 2012). That's 80 cars per man year. British Leyland at their height managed just 7 cars per man year, and most of those looked like they'd been assembled by pissed chimpanzees.
Mrs Thatcher had back bone, she told others direct and to the point, she never backed down, the woman had guts far more than any other PM we have seen since. I'm not going to say she was always right in what she did, no more than anyone else, humans...we all make mistakes. I would love to see her on form with this EU euro debt crap now!!
@1killerbilly Free school milk was introduced in the 1940s to help address the poor nutrition some kids were receiving at home. By the 1970s, it was no longer needed, but the poorest kids still received it, along with free school meals. It was means tested, as it should be. Now go back to school and learn something instead of parroting the dogma of others.
@1killerbilly Not very much, judging you solely on your use of English. Besides, I've yet to see you offer a rational contribution to this debate or a reasoned argument for your beliefs (whatever they are).
@DaMuttzNutz I have to say you are just as stupid as snowfield667. They weren't "slums" they had been wrecked. What did you expect? And most houses were being re-done with inside toilets by the 60s, especially the surburban areas. The very early 50s we still had outside toilets by by the end of that decade, most houses were getting real bathrooms put in. It wasn't half the country, it was less than that. Those stuck with an outside toilet were the minority.
@DaMuttzNutz No, the mid 1980s. Milk wasn't taken away in the 1970s because Thatcher wasn't in power then. Though in the 1960s people had everything. Good economy, decent leaders, free milk etc. I can see why it's been voted the best time for Britain and possibly most of the world.
@boffinme80 Thatcher took the free milk away when she was Minister of Education under Edward Heath. Whatever school you were at, you should have paid attention.
@DaMuttzNutz I did pay attention excuse me. And you're harsh. The early 70s were quite good as they were still following the routine of the 60s. From 1975, it all went downhill from there. People say Thatcher caused the recession but it was actually the Conservatives who did that in the late 70s. But not all of that decade was bad. In 1970-1974 there was still full employment. 1975 was when we started that three week and the powercuts. By the mid 80s it got ok but then another recession**
@boffinme80 The early 70s were good, with low unemployment. However, it was then that the unions were starting to flex their muscles and Britain started to lose business. For some reason, the unions didn't like the democratically elected government and eventually brought it down. Soon it was beer and sandwiches at Number Ten with their puppet hanging on to their every word and doing their bidding. By the time Thatcher came to power the economy was fucked.
@DaMuttzNutz The oil crisis happened in 1973 though we did not get badly affected until 1975. The mid 70s was when the economy went to the rats. I don't know about you but I think the 90s were a good time to be in as the economy was once again booming and full of prosperity, like the 50s and 60s. John Major was a decent pm however people don't like him just because he was "weak" and Blair wanted to prove him wrong. Blair was a thug. He was just as bad as Thatcher.
@boffinme80 when times are tough, you need a determined bastard in charge. Churchill was one, Thatcher another. The UK was going nowhere until the excessive power of the unions was curbed. Thatcher made mistakes, most notably defence cuts which precipitated the Falklands War, but she laid the foundations for a thriving economy. It's not by chance alone that the UK is one of a handful of $2tn economies
@boffinme80 The conservatives weren't in power in the late 70s, Sunny Jim Callaghan was...nominally, at least. The real power was in the hands of the Labour Party paymasters
@DaMuttzNutz Though no offense, but personally I think anyone who thinks the economy was worse in the late 70s are insane. Look what's happening now. Most of the retails are closing, the bus services are closing, cinemas are closing, so are libraries. That didn't happen as much in the late 70s.
@boffinme80 The libraries are going now for two reasons: Access to the Internet means we no longer have to go to libraries to do research; abolition of the cosy price-fixing in the publishing industry and increased competition means that books are relatively much cheaper to but outright.
Cinemas closed at an alarming rate in the 1970s with the advent of video taping. The cinemas also had to me made places that people would want to go to rather than the flea pits that existed then.
@DaMuttzNutz Cinemas didn;t close in the 70s because video tape wasn't avalible to the public until the 80s, though they became cheaper in the 90s. Though the REAL reason why cinemas closed down is due to downloads, which is actually illegal. To be honest, cinemas didn't close down because of the home video market because if you remember vhs, the quality was fuzzy and the 8mm film had to be formatted into inch size to just about fir the tv screen. Yes I do remember the 70s. What about the 90s?
@boffinme80 Winter of Discontent? Endless strikes? You don't remember the huge mounds of rubbish piled up in the streets? Morgues full of unburied bodies? Running to the IMF to borrow money to prop up unprofitable industries? Inflation above 25%? Pay Freeze? Power Cuts? All this happened in the 1970s. This country was starting to look like the third world. For all her faults, Thatcher was prepared to address our problems, unlike Heath, Wilson and Callaghan.
@DaMuttzNutz Look I remember what happened in the 70s and that was only the late 70s which was awful I agree. ITV went off air for 5 months in 1979 and the dead were left unburied in 1979, the rubbish was all over the street in 1979 that all happened in the late 70s! You're acting as if the entire decade was a disaster, it was good in the first half. Please stop acting like you know better and please stop being rude to other people. Every decade had it's dark sides even the 60s..
@snowfield667 The 60s had it's problems like every decade but most of it wasn't that bad at all. I would never say it was the worst decade Britain ever had. It wasn't called the Swinging Sixties for nothing as the 80s were called Amazing Eighties and so on. The worst decade we have ever had were the 30s. The Great Depression.
@boffinme80 we had strikes, power cuts and the three day week in the early 70s. Edward Heath was about as useful as a cat flap in an elephant house when it came to tackling the unions. We did have full employment though.
@DaMuttzNutz The power cuts and strikes all happened after the Oil Crisis which happened in late 1973. 1974 was when we had the three-day week. 1970-1973 were okay until the Oil Crisis happened. Then the strikes happened. Nothing bad happened in the early 70s until 1974. Read about it.
@DaMuttzNutz I'm sure you and I can both agree that 1970-1974 were good years. In 1975 that was when the strikes started and the oil crisis got worse. So it was a 50/50 decade. I did enjoy the first half of the 70s and so did many others. And I do admit that disco was terrible.
@DaMuttzNutz **in the early 90s from 1990-1992. By 1993 the economy got better and we all had full employment again. So the 90s were a pretty nice decade apart from the recession. This recession is the worst, as they have reported in the news because huge retails like Woolworths have closed down and WH Smiths might be on the way as well. Hopefully not.
... I read recently in one of our Canadian newspapers, that it was only 1/3 of a pint of milk that the kids got. That is not much, but still it was a cheap move on Maggie's part.
@cheeriosinabowl It is the parents responsibility to feed and nourish their children not the responsibility of the State like in communist countries. That is the reason she withdrew it, she disagreed with the whole principle of the State taking away parental responsibility, it had nothing to do with money.
... while I agree with you in general, it was only a small amount of milk given to the kids. The milk program was already in practice when Maggie took over power. Why not just leave the milk program intact? It was only a small part of one's life, not a monumental issue. I read in the paper it was a money issue, the milk was reportedly more expensive than the books! Oh well, no use crying over spilt milk. o))
I detested Thatcher at the time, however, in reflection, I'm glad that she came along when she did. She had the resolve to let failing businesses fail, taking archaic working practices with them. She taught that the fate of Britain should be decided at the ballot box and not according to the whim of unelected union dictators like Scargill. So what if manufacturing went to the wall? Does anyone really believe it could compete in a free market against China and India?
ugh it seems everyone here is a thatcher worshipper :/ she was the one that left the north of england permanently crippled, as it remains to this day. she removed the manufacturing base that this country had had for so long and replaced it with a 'service' economy which is centred around banking and jobs that, at the end of the day, mean nothing. see where thats led us now....
@chazza010 you really think they'd still be building ships on the Tyne? Industry was fucked by the unions; in particular men like Derek Robinson, who would lead 'his' men out for the flimsiest of reasons. British Leyland built out-of-date crap cars and the shipyards were losing customers at the speed of light. Coal? What kind of idiot wants a coal mine to be there for their children to work down?
I`m only 42, but remember her times well when growing up, if not really understanding them! Now, in mature reflection, I see this era, both in the UK and the US asn the era that mass globalisation began in the extreme form that we know it in today. Clearly, globalization on this massive scale of consumer led capitalism that is guided by the market has not proven a positve venture of the UK and US, engineering and production are vurtually dead, Corporations, however, have done quite well!
@8corporal Globalisation is an inevitable by-product of the Internet and computer age. Once large amounts of money could be moved with the click of a button, globalisation became unstoppable. We'd have globalisation now even if Arthur Scargill and Red Robbo were running the country
@DaMuttzNutz I agree, and this is my point. MT is hated for a lot of free market and privitzation ecconomic policy, and, needless to say, a ,ot of dmage was done and the country was transformed (the Special`s `this town is looking like a ghost town` conveying this nicely). However, like you, I feel globalisation was unstoppable irrespctive of what who occupied Downing Street or the Oval Office. It`s still a crock of crap though, dominated by the IMF, the World Bank and corporations!
I find the depiction of this woman in her country astonishing. She was the last Prime Minister that put the Great back in Great Brittan. She cared for your country and its sovereignty more than any other PM in modern times.
Jesus it's disgusting to see these horrid comments. I understand why one might not like her but wishing Alzheimer on someone or wanting them to die is pathetic, sad and plain cruel. If you want to act like an ignorant pig don't go extreme, instead be decent enough to make decent arguments.
If people don't have the intellect to have a decent clean debate without making crude comments about Margaret thatcher for example she will die a slow and painful death, whore, twat or your use of the Fword. Then don't bother making a comment. Make constructive criticism and back up your argument with stats and evidence!! OMG there are some morons on here!!
ira still undefeated
MrTaximan1234 5 days ago
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DukeriesLad 2 days ago
Mind the door doesn't hit your arse on the way out you old cunt!
sleepypoodle 6 days ago
@sleepypoodle LOL you dont seem to like here either, do you lol
Elberiver11 5 days ago
can we have a national holiday when this old woman finally goes to hell !
alburbs 6 days ago
@alburbs if you think she will go to hell, she's already there for 22 years. You happy?
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@alburbs LOL i was just wondering what the Brits think of Maggy, whether they like her or not.
After only 2 ort 3 comments i just read, its quite clear, hahaha!
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karezza6 1 week ago
Goodbye and die old bitch !
lionelagarde 1 week ago
She is a wonderfull person!
patriota9191 1 week ago
and ira still undefeated,remember brighton.?
MrTaximan1234 2 weeks ago
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The ira have been extinct for a long time now. :)
Uberdude25 2 weeks ago
@Uberdude25 do you really believe that?
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karezza6 2 weeks ago
The pathetic exit of a despot from office. Her father may have been a role model of virtue and hard work for her, but he forgot to cement in her head THE FACT THAT BRITAIN ALSO BELONGED TO THE WORKING CLASSES WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN WORLD WAR 1, AND WORLD WAR 2, in order for her to be nurtured in this land.In 1984 she bashed the strinking miners and deprived their families of Social Security Benefits to punish them,which can only point to her despotic conduct. Now she has her punishment.
ZadZadrack 2 weeks ago
@ZadZadrack ahahah, she kicked the miners ass and that was a great decision.
kitesurf4life 1 week ago
@kitesurf4life How strange is your comment in that you delight in Thather's kicking the Miners' ass, when I was explaining that THEIR CHILDREN WERE DEPRIVED OF SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS SO THAT THEIR MOTHERS CAN FEED THEM. I sense that you might be AMERICAN,if so,then your comment is welcomed as evidence of your UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT OF CAPITALISM as adopted by the USA where nearly the poor people CAN'T EVEN GET ACCESS TO BASIC MEDICAL TREATMENT Obviously you have no understanding of UK.
ZadZadrack 1 week ago
@ZadZadrack No, i'm not american, i'm french (as i said already, but that is not important) so everything following your "if so" is wrong. You are just dealing with the common problem of the visible against the invisible. You are aware of people who suffered Thatcher's policies (they are the visible) but you ignore who was saved thanks to it (invisible but not less real).
kitesurf4life 1 week ago
@kitesurf4life:Thank you for your comment about the 'VISIBLE' AND 'INVISIBLE' effects of Thatcher's reign as Prime Minister.Now that you tell me that you Are French,I must say,if it had not been for the Miners' fathers,uncles,grandfathers,etc.France and you would now have been under HITLER'S NAZI RULE.Think about that,for it was the soldiers of the British,American,Polish,Australian,Indian,etc. who sacrificed their lives to FREE YOUR COUNTRY (FRANCE) and give you your FREEDOM,and not Thatcher.
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@ZadZadrack yeup... again the miner's fathers, uncles etc are the visible ones. I also think about the one who are invisible and who are as nice and respectful than the other ones but slightly more numerous. And i prefer to insist: invisible does NOT mean unreal, those peoples existe really, simply YOU are unable to know who they are.
kitesurf4life 1 week ago
@ZadZadrack The French would not have been under Nazi-rule, if they had not started war on Germany. Simple, isn't it?
And if Polish dictator Pilsudski and his Polish terrorists had not enslaved 6 million Ukrainans and 2 Million Germans under alien rule, with BRITISH help, they would not have provoked a war either. It was actually the British Empire who created the conflict in Versailles 1919. You Brits don't know anything about your own country's history.
Elberiver11 5 days ago
@Elberiver11 Please, by all means express your opinion about 'ZadZadrack's lack of historical knowledge/level of ignorance, but don't make assumptions about 'us Brits'...there are after all well over 60 million of us living here, and as with any country, the spectrum of knowledge, intellect, education, logic, prejudice and personal values is a very wide and varied one. (you're right, I detested Thatcher)
sleepypoodle 5 days ago
@ZadZadrack So what's "freedom" to you? Invading Iraq and killing 1 Million innocents like Britain and USA did?
Everbody has seen the pictures how you tortured innocents in Iraq, and how you killed children. So don't bitch about my country, as long as yours is doing far worse. I dont see the Germans starting any wars, the British and Americans started countless wars and killed millions since 1945. Is that your idea of "freedom"? lol
Elberiver11 5 days ago
In a better state she must be on crack shes done the worst damage out of any prime minister cany wait for that old troll to die
iiPradaRii 2 weeks ago
@iiPradaRii fuck labour
NottinghamForest22 1 week ago
@NottinghamForest22 Hmm were r u in the league again Celtic FC #1
iiPradaRii 1 week ago
@iiPradaRii loll the SPL is League 2 standard. Piss poor.
NottinghamForest22 1 week ago
@NottinghamForest22 We bet Man Utd so how does that make us league 2 standard
iiPradaRii 1 week ago
we would definitely need someone like her here in france... plenty of syndicaliste ass to kick.
kitesurf4life 2 weeks ago
@kitesurf4life Unfortunately great leaders like Thatcher are rare. She was probably our best prime minister for the last 100 or so years, her only flaw was she rushed half of her plans through and by the time she got all the leaches off welfare and the public sector to a reasonable size, the economy couldn't grow fast enough to take in the unemployed. Labour cover unemployment up because people on welfare don't count as unemployed.
TheConnorian 1 week ago
absolute legend, its such a shame she had to leave. We need someone like her now, with some bollox to do the job.
simpleasLiam 2 weeks ago
Her governments sold everything we had for fuck all and then left us with fuck all. The idiots that bought up the under priced shares and sold them for a quick quid and rubbed their hands in glee at the value of their homes never gave a thought for the next generation.
Iazzaboyce 2 weeks ago
@Iazzaboyce her government sold everything that wasn't making any money. She left this country three times as rich as it was when she came into power, and when she left, she didn't leave shit loads of debt that the next three generations will be paying off.
simpleasLiam 2 weeks ago 2
"We're leaving Downing Street for the last time after eleven and a half evil years."
Watchiya 2 weeks ago
Thatcher destroyed the Unions and kicked the workshy layabouts in the arse. Good work.
MrFlibble2011 2 weeks ago
Thatcher dont deserve a state funeral wen she pops it
garethp 2 weeks ago
@garethp no, agree she doesn't deserve a state funeral, she'd rather deserve a worldwide funeral for showing us the right path. Even me in france i admire her. when you were lucky enough to have thatcher, we had mitterand, the worst shit that could ever happen to a country.
kitesurf4life 1 week ago
cow!!!!!!!
garethp 2 weeks ago
the day that evil evil women dies i will stip off and run around laughing......that goes for the rest of the people those lives she destroyed....rot in hell you bitch
TheJaaysog 2 weeks ago
Yes I class destroying our industry so that now our global performance in GDP is pathetic and we have no chance of returning to supremacy a really much better state than when Maggie Thatcher arrived. Congratulations! :/
samwillown 3 weeks ago
@samwillown What fucking industry???.....the fucking unions were running the country and dictating terms to the labour government and that meant a fucking strike every other day for the the rest of the year. i was only 18 when thatcher came to power and i couldn't get a job cos no one was working. Now i am a self employed plumber thanks to her "get up and go" mentality
ledzeplad 3 weeks ago
Britain needs another thatcher.
JonasBridgous 3 weeks ago
@JonasBridgous we already got one in David Cameron and hes a bigger cnut
garethp 2 weeks ago
DIOS BENDIGA A LA DAMA DE HIERRO. UN SALUDO FRATERNO DESDE CHILE
FEMP1971 3 weeks ago
I want my School milk back "Bitch".
joebstarsurfer 3 weeks ago
@joebstarsurfer what else do you want for nothing???
ledzeplad 3 weeks ago
God will dance on her grave ideots.
joebstarsurfer 3 weeks ago
@joebstarsurfer Its idiot with an "I" by the way. Good to see education didn't suffer under the tories.
ledzeplad 3 weeks ago
Mubarak, Gaddafi...come on Maggie, let's make it a hat trick!
david030491 3 weeks ago
@david030491 Yeah you could re-instate Scargill and fuck all would be done!!!!!
ledzeplad 3 weeks ago
@david030491 Mubarak isn't dead.
The1985Channel 2 weeks ago
It moves me to tears :(
blondemax 3 weeks ago
despite having completely different ideological views from her, and disagreeing with some of her actions, i cannot help but respect this woman, as she was extremely strong, didn't take crap from anyone.
theevilfish 3 weeks ago
@theevilfish Yoursi is the most intelligent view on youtube EVER!!!......
ledzeplad 3 weeks ago
Whatever industry Thatcher apparently ruined wouldve been completely operated by immigrants by now anyway so stop crying.
takalua911 3 weeks ago
Even Hitler Himself Would've been scared of The Iron Lady Long Live the Iron Lady
gothicemo2011 4 weeks ago
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EddieHitler7 3 weeks ago
@gothicemo2011 fuck the iron lady, and my gran was scared of no one!
EddieHitler7 3 weeks ago
@gothicemo2011 you are so right!!!...Hitler would have had a field day with the following labour governments!!.....just as the falklands would be under Argentinian control by now if labour were in charge when they were taken the first time around.
ledzeplad 3 weeks ago
God bless the Queen of Politics. Such strength. I've never seen an MP of today speak with their mind like this dear lady did.
greenbutterfly101 4 weeks ago
I laughed so hard when that evil bitch was stabbed in the back by her own cronies. Jingoistic, condescending and lacking any compassion. Only Blair is worse
wingslyp 1 month ago
@wingslyp You laughed? You laughed at a leader with the independence to not give in to the corruption in government?
hyenapeptic 1 month ago
@hyenapeptic
Corruption in government? You meaning sipping tea with despots like Pinochet and ordering the of the sinking the Belgrano when it was sailing away? I've read your over blinkered condescending opinions on here and you're a revisionist troll. Take your Thatcherite Oedipal fantasies elsewhere
wingslyp 3 weeks ago
@wingslyp Pinochet gave us territory during the falklands war, we shouldnt forget that. Belgrano was an instrument of war and was moving away but towards another vantage point within the exclusion zone(plus all is fair in love and war). The falklands was only deemed a pile of rocks in the S.Atlantic but is worth billions now due to the oil discovery. Not a bad shout at the end of the day really is it??
ledzeplad 3 weeks ago
@ledzeplad
Guess it's not a bad shout, collaborating with murdering dictators and starting a war to save your political skin and the potential of oil exploration. Don't try and add integrity to Thatcher; she is as conniving and insincere as any politician.
wingslyp 3 weeks ago
@wingslyp Thatcher didn't start the falklands war. The oil/gas was discovered nearly 20years after the conflict ended. Yes,she may be conniving and insincere but hey, name me a politician who isn't??
jarwz 2 weeks ago
@jarwz
She used the conflict to her advantage to gain another term in government. I dislike how revisionists on here and the film see her as some saviour. Yes Labour (New and old) and the unions didn't do us any favours but her legacy is a selfish amoral country, much like herself and as you pointed out like all politicians. She wasn't spectacular, she was another ordinary scheming MP
wingslyp 2 weeks ago
she was so fucking horrible her own cabinet got rid of her, hope the old bastard rots in hell i hate the old bastard, hope she's in terrible pain the last few years of her life, i hate her with every fibre in my body
EddieHitler7 1 month ago
good riddance to bad rubbish!
EddieHitler7 1 month ago
she done fuck all for scotland
Mr2011DomDom 1 month ago
She was stabbed in the back by her own party. Disgraceful. She should have been shot in the face by the rest of us.
m00nshine2004 1 month ago
There she is in all her insincerity - we all know how upset she was when she had to leave and yet again she performed a different feeling for the British public. The smile that covers. But it doesn't cover. That's one of the many problems with her kind of mind set - thinking people cannot see 'behind' the mask. Be truthful. People can see truth as much as they can see the above.
0FindGlory 1 month ago
She put my dad out a job when she killed the steel industry saying it would be cheaper to import it rather than make it. I had to eat beans and toast everyday for a year because of this wrinkly old bitch. 20 years on and im still fucking fuming about it!
TheFlyingScotsman01 1 month ago
@TheFlyingScotsman01 Maybe he should of worked harder in school and had higher aspirations than to be a laborer? Maybe we should all just sit around smoking weed in our own shit, since that's clearly what you'd rather happen than to take a hit for your own country
hyenapeptic 1 month ago
@hyenapeptic
He was a straight A student and passed every exam he sat in school actually and was a crane driver at the steel works, you know, a skilled worker? Fortunately a year later he got a job in the construction industry operating cranes to erect the steel frames of buildings and no i wouldnt rather we all sit around smoking weed unemployed as 1. it finances terrorism and 2. unemployment doesnt do our economy any good. Ending 1 of our largest industries insnt exzactly a hit either mate.
TheFlyingScotsman01 1 month ago
@TheFlyingScotsman01 You're scottish!!
hyenapeptic 4 weeks ago
@hyenapeptic I`m a `western European` actually thanks to Gordon Brown joining the E.U lol.
TheFlyingScotsman01 4 weeks ago
Forever loving maggie. Glad your heroine inspires you. From my community point of view, she shut the miners down because she had a beef with them (ie ted heath in 1974). She even had the temerity to close our pits down and import polish coal. Now that's how to keep communities thriving, go to jolly foreigner and let them put local people on the dole.
danceonhergrave1 1 month ago
I cried my eyes out. Really, I had hoped that she had left the building. horizontal. Preferably in a box. Privatise her funeral and let the people of our country 'pay at the gate'. Can we bury her at markham main pit?
danceonhergrave1 1 month ago
"After eleven and a half wonderful years".... for who exactly? The embodiment and promoter of greed and self interest is finally stabbed in the back by the people she stabbed in the back.
NarcissistsDie 1 month ago
psstheyyou 1 month ago
I love that day that monster left office. She was an enemy of the workers and all revolutionaries. The capitalists loved her, but we marxists not!
UDSS 1 month ago
@UDSS Enemy to what workers? She relieved the workers of tax and shut down unprofitable and backwards industries.
I pressume by this you refer to the mines, but as a marxist you believe against exploitation - so why must you support such a backwards industry with awful working conditions? explain that one.
See the problem is your ideology isn't supportive of true communism, you just support Stalinist communism, which is responsible for stavartion and loss of 100 million.
ForeverComplaining 1 month ago
In keeping with the great lady's legacy, Margaret Thatcher's state funeral should be funded and managed by the private sector to offer the best value and choice for end users and other stakeholders. The undersigned believe that the legacy of the former PM deserves nothing less and that offering this unique opportunity is an ideal way to cut government expense and further prove the merits of liberalised economics Baroness Thatcher spearheaded.
Never3rd 1 month ago
@Never3rd Oh don't be so pathetic. She was a democratically elected prime minister, not a dictator. Regardless of whether you love her or hate her, she fought for and won the position and so she should get the same treatment as any other head of state when she dies. By your logic every prime minister of the last 30 years should be buried by the private sector.
steve5312 1 month ago
@steve5312 As the petition says, she deserves nothing less than the honour of a privatised funeral in the spirit of her liberalised economics. Anything else is an insult to her legacy and - to be frank - an insult to those of us outside of the south-east who suffered under her regime.
Never3rd 1 month ago
@Never3rd No, she gets a state one as she was a Prime Minister and there is incredible public interest of her, just like every other PM, execpt she is very much so exceptional.
Your comment is just a copy and paste of some Guardian crap, which isn't witty, merely intelligent nor funny, it's just sick and I'm disgusted that such a paper would hold such a view, when one considers that they 'have more morality than the daily mail' (even though the DM show respect for all our PMs)
ForeverComplaining 1 month ago
@ForeverComplaining If you can't see the irony in her taxpayer funeral then its no wonder you're her fan in the first place. Some may admire her, but the celebrations when she dies are no joke. She did a lot of damage to this country and that will be her legacy for most of the UK.
Never3rd 1 month ago
@Never3rd No, there isn't irony. State funerals aren't owned by the state... they are funded by it and this is because the individual had immense service to the country (Prime Minister or Monarch).
The whole idea of a state funeral is so that the whole public can get together and celebrate the life of an influential (democratically elected) figure.
And it's no wonder you're a hater if you can't differentiate between a state funeral and state control of industry.
ForeverComplaining 1 month ago
@Never3rd 'a lot of damage'?
By that you're implying that all industry was profitable, it's ok for undemocratically elected unions, run by multi-millionaires to control us all, it's a great idea to penalize low earning private sector workers, just to keep open useless unprofitable industry which gives a tiny minority of our population backwards, employment.
ForeverComplaining 1 month ago
@ForeverComplaining Its good to know you value "profitable" industry over peoples lives (which depend on their jobs). If you understood circulation in the economy then you might re-think Tory bullshit. And using "undemocratically elected unions, run by multi-millionaires" is a laugh considering who benefits from privatisation (undemocratically elected multi-millionare executives and shareholders). Society is paying for Mrs "there's no such thing as society"s funeral = irony.
Never3rd 1 month ago
@Never3rd So presumably you'll be asking for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to have privatised funerals as well? Or more specifically, funerals whose costs are fronted by private companies who are then paid back ten-fold over the next thirty years by the taxpayer?
I strongly disagreed with the way Tony Blair ran the country but I wouldn't deny him a state funeral. He worked hard to get there and he was democratically elected. That's the nature of party politics - you can't please everyone.
steve5312 1 month ago
@steve5312 Blair won't get a State funeral as his own party hates him as much as everyone else...at least Thatcher retains her fan base.
aeronuk1 1 month ago
@aeronuk1 If I put millons of bucks into your fat gob im sure youd be in my fan base
jmcfintona999 1 month ago
Hehe... best day of my life! Tara Maggie. Make sure you turn out the lights and flush the loo, you scabby old bat!
MartianTom 1 month ago
She was strong and brilliant. An Iron time for Britain, from the Iron lady. God bless her, God bless Britain.
DoctorCheeseFood 1 month ago
People find any excuse to belittle or insult her (just check other videos). One example is the milk snatcher idea. JESUS CHRIST, it's not that big a deal. People are so twisted and corrupt.
AtlasRezzed 1 month ago
@AtlasRezzed Well, anyone who supports burdening low income workers, or anyone for the matter, having to pay higher tax rates to fund milk, which was disgusting and out of date by the time the pupils recieved, is clearly left wing as they like burdening tax payers and giving people a load of shit, as it doesn't matter, just so long as the state offer it, even if it's substandard to privatised service (which is always the case)
ForeverComplaining 1 month ago
She thinks she's the fucking queen, fucking bitch.
ThomasEnnit 1 month ago
TOP LADY, I wish she was running India..India be so powerfull. we would have all the low life in India now.
INDIA be full of Niggers, Pakistain , Rominanina, and West Indians
magadee1000 1 month ago
@magadee1000 Well she probably, admires India as you have a High-tech industry :)
ForeverComplaining 1 month ago
good riddance
Lipz101 1 month ago
she was a terrible priminster she is yucky
Paramore40944 1 month ago
God Bless The Iron Lady.
theonebradchambers1 1 month ago 25
long live the iron lady
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aeronuk1 1 month ago
The Nissan car plant in Sunderland (est 1986, aided by the Thatcher govt) currently produces 450,000 cars annually with a workforce of 5,500. It is the most productive car plant in Europe (Telegraph, 4th Jan 2012). That's 80 cars per man year. British Leyland at their height managed just 7 cars per man year, and most of those looked like they'd been assembled by pissed chimpanzees.
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
Mrs Thatcher had back bone, she told others direct and to the point, she never backed down, the woman had guts far more than any other PM we have seen since. I'm not going to say she was always right in what she did, no more than anyone else, humans...we all make mistakes. I would love to see her on form with this EU euro debt crap now!!
theboywholived2 1 month ago
anybody who takes milk away from a 5 year old should be hanged lol
1killerbilly 1 month ago
i remember her for one thing taking my fucking milk away when i was 5 years old at school fucking loved my milk thanks thatcher
1killerbilly 1 month ago
@1killerbilly That was the 1970s, not the 1870s. I got plenty of milk at home
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz truth hurts she robbed 5 years old kids off milk lol
1killerbilly 1 month ago
@1killerbilly Free school milk was introduced in the 1940s to help address the poor nutrition some kids were receiving at home. By the 1970s, it was no longer needed, but the poorest kids still received it, along with free school meals. It was means tested, as it should be. Now go back to school and learn something instead of parroting the dogma of others.
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1killerbilly 1 month ago
@1killerbilly grow up you daft prat. You clearly know fuck all. My father was a painter and decorator and I grew up on a West London council estate
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz plonker
1killerbilly 1 month ago
@1killerbilly go home to mummy, little boy
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz ok i go home to mummy if you go home to your gay father
1killerbilly 1 month ago
@1killerbilly you seem to have a very intimate knowledge of my father's sexuality. One can only wonder how you came by it.
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz you be surprised what i no my little play thing
1killerbilly 1 month ago
@1killerbilly Not very much, judging you solely on your use of English. Besides, I've yet to see you offer a rational contribution to this debate or a reasoned argument for your beliefs (whatever they are).
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz facts are my contribution and evidence anybody with blood on there hands doesnt get the time off day from me thats my argument
1killerbilly 1 month ago
@1killerbilly I've yet to see you make any factual assertions here, only one-line opinions.
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz none from you
1killerbilly 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz I have to say you are just as stupid as snowfield667. They weren't "slums" they had been wrecked. What did you expect? And most houses were being re-done with inside toilets by the 60s, especially the surburban areas. The very early 50s we still had outside toilets by by the end of that decade, most houses were getting real bathrooms put in. It wasn't half the country, it was less than that. Those stuck with an outside toilet were the minority.
boffinme80 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz No, the mid 1980s. Milk wasn't taken away in the 1970s because Thatcher wasn't in power then. Though in the 1960s people had everything. Good economy, decent leaders, free milk etc. I can see why it's been voted the best time for Britain and possibly most of the world.
boffinme80 1 month ago
@boffinme80 Thatcher took the free milk away when she was Minister of Education under Edward Heath. Whatever school you were at, you should have paid attention.
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz I did pay attention excuse me. And you're harsh. The early 70s were quite good as they were still following the routine of the 60s. From 1975, it all went downhill from there. People say Thatcher caused the recession but it was actually the Conservatives who did that in the late 70s. But not all of that decade was bad. In 1970-1974 there was still full employment. 1975 was when we started that three week and the powercuts. By the mid 80s it got ok but then another recession**
boffinme80 1 month ago
@boffinme80 The early 70s were good, with low unemployment. However, it was then that the unions were starting to flex their muscles and Britain started to lose business. For some reason, the unions didn't like the democratically elected government and eventually brought it down. Soon it was beer and sandwiches at Number Ten with their puppet hanging on to their every word and doing their bidding. By the time Thatcher came to power the economy was fucked.
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz The oil crisis happened in 1973 though we did not get badly affected until 1975. The mid 70s was when the economy went to the rats. I don't know about you but I think the 90s were a good time to be in as the economy was once again booming and full of prosperity, like the 50s and 60s. John Major was a decent pm however people don't like him just because he was "weak" and Blair wanted to prove him wrong. Blair was a thug. He was just as bad as Thatcher.
boffinme80 1 month ago
@boffinme80 when times are tough, you need a determined bastard in charge. Churchill was one, Thatcher another. The UK was going nowhere until the excessive power of the unions was curbed. Thatcher made mistakes, most notably defence cuts which precipitated the Falklands War, but she laid the foundations for a thriving economy. It's not by chance alone that the UK is one of a handful of $2tn economies
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@boffinme80 The conservatives weren't in power in the late 70s, Sunny Jim Callaghan was...nominally, at least. The real power was in the hands of the Labour Party paymasters
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz Though no offense, but personally I think anyone who thinks the economy was worse in the late 70s are insane. Look what's happening now. Most of the retails are closing, the bus services are closing, cinemas are closing, so are libraries. That didn't happen as much in the late 70s.
boffinme80 1 month ago
@boffinme80 do you remember the 1970s? I do; I started work in 1971
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@boffinme80 The libraries are going now for two reasons: Access to the Internet means we no longer have to go to libraries to do research; abolition of the cosy price-fixing in the publishing industry and increased competition means that books are relatively much cheaper to but outright.
Cinemas closed at an alarming rate in the 1970s with the advent of video taping. The cinemas also had to me made places that people would want to go to rather than the flea pits that existed then.
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz Cinemas didn;t close in the 70s because video tape wasn't avalible to the public until the 80s, though they became cheaper in the 90s. Though the REAL reason why cinemas closed down is due to downloads, which is actually illegal. To be honest, cinemas didn't close down because of the home video market because if you remember vhs, the quality was fuzzy and the 8mm film had to be formatted into inch size to just about fir the tv screen. Yes I do remember the 70s. What about the 90s?
boffinme80 1 month ago
@boffinme80 Winter of Discontent? Endless strikes? You don't remember the huge mounds of rubbish piled up in the streets? Morgues full of unburied bodies? Running to the IMF to borrow money to prop up unprofitable industries? Inflation above 25%? Pay Freeze? Power Cuts? All this happened in the 1970s. This country was starting to look like the third world. For all her faults, Thatcher was prepared to address our problems, unlike Heath, Wilson and Callaghan.
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz Look I remember what happened in the 70s and that was only the late 70s which was awful I agree. ITV went off air for 5 months in 1979 and the dead were left unburied in 1979, the rubbish was all over the street in 1979 that all happened in the late 70s! You're acting as if the entire decade was a disaster, it was good in the first half. Please stop acting like you know better and please stop being rude to other people. Every decade had it's dark sides even the 60s..
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snowfield667 1 month ago
@snowfield667 The 60s had it's problems like every decade but most of it wasn't that bad at all. I would never say it was the worst decade Britain ever had. It wasn't called the Swinging Sixties for nothing as the 80s were called Amazing Eighties and so on. The worst decade we have ever had were the 30s. The Great Depression.
boffinme80 1 month ago
@boffinme80 we had strikes, power cuts and the three day week in the early 70s. Edward Heath was about as useful as a cat flap in an elephant house when it came to tackling the unions. We did have full employment though.
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz The power cuts and strikes all happened after the Oil Crisis which happened in late 1973. 1974 was when we had the three-day week. 1970-1973 were okay until the Oil Crisis happened. Then the strikes happened. Nothing bad happened in the early 70s until 1974. Read about it.
boffinme80 1 month ago
@boffinme80 conceded. I thought the 3-day week was earlier. Jan 74 it was
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snowfield667 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz I'm sure you and I can both agree that 1970-1974 were good years. In 1975 that was when the strikes started and the oil crisis got worse. So it was a 50/50 decade. I did enjoy the first half of the 70s and so did many others. And I do admit that disco was terrible.
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@DaMuttzNutz **in the early 90s from 1990-1992. By 1993 the economy got better and we all had full employment again. So the 90s were a pretty nice decade apart from the recession. This recession is the worst, as they have reported in the news because huge retails like Woolworths have closed down and WH Smiths might be on the way as well. Hopefully not.
boffinme80 1 month ago
@1killerbilly
... I read recently in one of our Canadian newspapers, that it was only 1/3 of a pint of milk that the kids got. That is not much, but still it was a cheap move on Maggie's part.
cheeriosinabowl 1 month ago
@cheeriosinabowl It is the parents responsibility to feed and nourish their children not the responsibility of the State like in communist countries. That is the reason she withdrew it, she disagreed with the whole principle of the State taking away parental responsibility, it had nothing to do with money.
aeronuk1 1 month ago
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... while I agree with you in general, it was only a small amount of milk given to the kids. The milk program was already in practice when Maggie took over power. Why not just leave the milk program intact? It was only a small part of one's life, not a monumental issue. I read in the paper it was a money issue, the milk was reportedly more expensive than the books! Oh well, no use crying over spilt milk. o))
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aeronuk1 1 month ago
I detested Thatcher at the time, however, in reflection, I'm glad that she came along when she did. She had the resolve to let failing businesses fail, taking archaic working practices with them. She taught that the fate of Britain should be decided at the ballot box and not according to the whim of unelected union dictators like Scargill. So what if manufacturing went to the wall? Does anyone really believe it could compete in a free market against China and India?
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
ugh it seems everyone here is a thatcher worshipper :/ she was the one that left the north of england permanently crippled, as it remains to this day. she removed the manufacturing base that this country had had for so long and replaced it with a 'service' economy which is centred around banking and jobs that, at the end of the day, mean nothing. see where thats led us now....
chazza010 1 month ago
@chazza010 you really think they'd still be building ships on the Tyne? Industry was fucked by the unions; in particular men like Derek Robinson, who would lead 'his' men out for the flimsiest of reasons. British Leyland built out-of-date crap cars and the shipyards were losing customers at the speed of light. Coal? What kind of idiot wants a coal mine to be there for their children to work down?
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
I`m only 42, but remember her times well when growing up, if not really understanding them! Now, in mature reflection, I see this era, both in the UK and the US asn the era that mass globalisation began in the extreme form that we know it in today. Clearly, globalization on this massive scale of consumer led capitalism that is guided by the market has not proven a positve venture of the UK and US, engineering and production are vurtually dead, Corporations, however, have done quite well!
8corporal 1 month ago
@8corporal Globalisation is an inevitable by-product of the Internet and computer age. Once large amounts of money could be moved with the click of a button, globalisation became unstoppable. We'd have globalisation now even if Arthur Scargill and Red Robbo were running the country
DaMuttzNutz 1 month ago
@DaMuttzNutz I agree, and this is my point. MT is hated for a lot of free market and privitzation ecconomic policy, and, needless to say, a ,ot of dmage was done and the country was transformed (the Special`s `this town is looking like a ghost town` conveying this nicely). However, like you, I feel globalisation was unstoppable irrespctive of what who occupied Downing Street or the Oval Office. It`s still a crock of crap though, dominated by the IMF, the World Bank and corporations!
8corporal 1 month ago
@8corporal It was Labour that first sold this country out to the IMF, never forget that.
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8corporal 1 month ago
I find the depiction of this woman in her country astonishing. She was the last Prime Minister that put the Great back in Great Brittan. She cared for your country and its sovereignty more than any other PM in modern times.
stevenpawsey 1 month ago
Maggie leaving downing street was end of great Britain for sure
IceQueen3D 1 month ago
Hate her cabinet - bunch of back-stabbing cowards! It's terrible what they did, just terrible. At least she showed them at her last Commons :)
emma41093 1 month ago
What a cunt.
Jamiethewookie 1 month ago
Jesus it's disgusting to see these horrid comments. I understand why one might not like her but wishing Alzheimer on someone or wanting them to die is pathetic, sad and plain cruel. If you want to act like an ignorant pig don't go extreme, instead be decent enough to make decent arguments.
cxx78 1 month ago 8
Aw I feel bad seeing her cry :/
cxx78 1 month ago
If people don't have the intellect to have a decent clean debate without making crude comments about Margaret thatcher for example she will die a slow and painful death, whore, twat or your use of the Fword. Then don't bother making a comment. Make constructive criticism and back up your argument with stats and evidence!! OMG there are some morons on here!!
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