Billy Elliot, Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher.

[thechosennerf]

Hmm. The lyrics could easily be changed:

So merry Christmas David Cameron

May God's love be with you

We all sing together in one breath

Merry Christmas David Cameron

We all celebrate today

'Cause it's one day closer to your death

[Jimisonjons]

Merry christmas David Cameron, we all celebrate the day because it's one day closer to your death!

[midgiemarsh]

@Jimisonjons one day closer to yours too mate

[dlwke2]

@Jimisonjons, Britain still has a culture of nanny state welfare and lazy entitlement. The unions want government to protect jobs that others can do cheaper and more efficiently. Very sad. We watched the socialist bum student riots in London last week with shock and sadness. Hopefully David Cameron can improve things. ~~Greetings from America.

[bhffa]

@dlwke2 wtf u on david cameron is a wanker and hello we mig hav had maggie thature but u stupid americans had george bush and ombma HAHAHA

[thegreatloy]

@dlwke2 You know nothing of the current state of Britain, direct your ignorance elsewhere.

[Jimisonjons]

@dlwke2 While you sit shedding your crocodile tears for the poor windows of Milbank tower, millions of young people are watching "with shock and sadness" the future of public education being dismantled by an illegitimate government intent on introducing the biggest cuts in generations. School students are watching "with shock and sadness" their future disappearing in front of them. It gives me great joy to see students fighting back and bringing horror to the eyes of Tory dipshits like yourself.

[JCDenton04]

I'll say with the money some in Parliament want to spend on her funeral they can give us all shovels and we'll dig a hole to hell to send her to Satan personally.

[haschtrollet]

@JCDenton04  you stole that from mock of the week :p

[JCDenton04]

@haschtrollet So I'd gladly start digging for such a noble task

[Sobekain]

@JCDenton04 LOL!  KUDOS!

[Jimisonjons]

@JCDenton04 I'll only support a state funeral for Thatcher if she's buried alive.

[vivascargill]

tory labour like the democrats and republicans--cia penetrated labour wouldn't be surprised if Gaitskill was on the payroll--UP ARTHUR!!

[mymilkshakes12342]

one of my favorite billy songs ever!

[Seattlecarnut]

This is one of my favourite songs by Sir Reg.

[zeebop12]

the tory bastards TRIALLED THE UNFAIR TAX IN SCOTLAND LET U TORY LOVING BASTARDS NEVER FORGET THAT! DEATH TO THATCHER AND FUCKING QUICK!!!

[DPhily]

I love this song.  In any case she is up there with one of the all time great modern leaders... Merry Xmas, and all my best Maggie.

[MJMedin]

What a load of absolute crap. It's a shame that the mining industry was unsustainable and had to be allowed to fail, but that was an inalterable economic fact. People forget the days of twenty per cent inflation in the late seventies. Margaret Thatcher introduced a small number of moderate economic reforms which brought the country back from the brink of insanity. The only people who disliked her were those too lazy to make it in the dynamic and vibrant economy she created.

[smee7777]

You sound like you know a thing or two about something you know nothing about. You had to live in a community affected by the coal miners strike to feel the hatred we have for the most evil person to occupy number ten Downing Street.

We are all now paying for the one thing that Thatcher wanted and that is the power of the working class to bring this country to a stand still, as happened in the 70's.

[MJMedin]

I know more than a thing or two about it. Nevertheless, believe it or not, I do empathise with the miners and those in mining communities, as trite as that might sound. It doesn't change my belief that she was right. We could not simply continue expanding the money supply and national debt to meet continually growing government control of the economy and protect coddled union workers' jobs. Personally, I wish Thatcher had gone further, but she did save us from the hell of the seventies.

[ellanvannincymru]

What do you mean by "gone further"? You think "going further" would have reduced suffering and poverty?

[MJMedin]

Well, among other things, she kept:

the NHS, job-seeker's allowance, a whole range of welfare payments, the comprehensive education system, liberal immigration policies, and staggered income tax bands. And she abolished the poll tax - a step in the direction of a flat, fair tax system. She also did not reintroduce either corporal or capital punishment or withdraw from the EU.

Admittedly she would never have been able to acheive many of the above for political reasons.

[ellanvannincymru]

So you think those things should have been eliminated, just clarifying?

[gilesosborne2]

Thatcher; the worst prime minister this country ever had, who destroyed the work of generations and left millions with no future except on the dole or in low wage drudgery, and who stole a future from our kids.

Evil. Roll on the day she carks it!

[boredcustomer56]

Yea gilesosborne, you're right; most truly horrible prime minister's get elected three times and raise the gross domestic product of their country 23%, aswell as strengthining the pound that was a that point weaker than the dollar, something that occured as a result of the mining strike.

[ellanvannincymru]

GDP does not understand human suffering, adding up the assets of the very rich and very poor, and dividing it by the population of the country is meaningless unless wealth is distributed. The benefits of a strong pound are felt most by corporations. IF you don't have enough pounds in the first place, it will never be quite strong enough. Thatcher tripled unemployment, doubled the poverty rate, and led britain to it's child poverty peak. In human terms her legacy is disastrous.

[gilesosborne2]

Yes, I am right. I wish I wasn't and her record had been any good. But it w3asn't. Everythign she touched she ruined.

The 3 elections were a con and don on the back of lying manifestoes and a contrived war. Currency? Yeah right... Dmark to £, 1979, 4; Dmmark to the £ 1990, 2.8.

The US Dollar... £ fell from 79 till 90, thanks to her.

You don't know what you're talking about.

[mario1983xy]

Let Baroness Thatcher's critics (and enemies) cry out their irrational hatred.

The more they hate and scorn and jear the more they rob their own noses into the ashes of their defeat.

Thatcher never cared too much what the media or artists or musicians said about her politics. She didn't read newspapers very often and it is quite probable that she never heard this song in her whole life.

I understand that it helped cheering up the socialists but did it help them?

*loughing out loudly*

[vivascargill]

@mario1983xy blow me asshole

[ltmishastraskov]

I'll be glad when Thatcher does finally leave humanity in peace. In fact, someone give's us a shovel, and I'll get started on a special pit for her. I'll dig it so deep that the miners can hand her over to Satan themselves. State funereal for that witch? Not in my name!

[vivascargill]

@ltmishastraskov bury her head down in a pit --then burn the bitch

[ltmishastraskov]

@vivascargill I'm a man, son.

[ltmishastraskov]

@vivascargill Oh, sorry, you mean't her. Beg pardon.

[vivascargill]

@ltmishastraskov no problem-- what is she a man-a woman or a creature out of hell

[GlobalInk]

It's amazing how many people still feel this strongly about Maggie Thatcher. Unless you were here during that period, it's impossible to understand.

I wasn't alive then, obviously, but it's so easy to tell when I talk to people about it.

It's pure loathing.

I love this song =D

[ReaganHaych]

i went to see the musical

amazing :D

[claleo28]

Poor miners...I mean what could they do....well they could turn to benefits and drugs....oh yes thats what they did do.

[groovydad1]

@claleo28 So what other choice were they given?

[falkirkbairn01]

Great video. Support the Unions!

[JamesTilsley1]

It is a nice song, but you can't escape the truth that thatcher turned this country around and caused a economic boom

[stutiger79]

It will be a merry xmas if she dies on the 25 december!!!!

[deadanimalfreakshow]

Aye an at what cost

[NetzKaiser]

Like the sound. Don't like the message.

[x6xdirtylittlesecret]

Awsome!

[SaladSpork]

Nice video, shame she can't take that idiot Cameron with her when she croaks it.

[left888]

And Blair

And Brown

[SaladSpork]

Agree with you on Blair, not so much Brown :p

[left888]

Why not? Brown finance the wars, ensured that the super rich kept getting obscene wealth mostly tax free, poured countless billions away on PFI etc as Chancellor

Then as PM, he was even more enthusiastic on bombing Iraq and Afghanistan than Bliar was. And now he's brought in more health service privatisation, he's still on Trident, ID cards, huge lengths of detention etc.

I just can't see much difference.

[SaladSpork]

Done a lot of good stuff as well personally I'm a fan of both him and Ed Balls, but can understand why some people do not like him.

[falkirkbairn01]

Agreed Gordon is a great leader and was a great chancellor.Ed Balls is awful, why are people like him and Purnell in the Labour Party?

[groovydad1]

@falkirkbairn01

[vivascargill]

@left888 you are not serious they are thatcher in suits!!

[XxJBx4xEVERxX]

AWESOME SONG!

[stinemb]

i love this song! nice video:)