How Thatcher saved Britain. RIP

[dolf]

she was unceremoniously booted out of government before her term was up. if that doesn't give a hint that she'd started crossing too many lines by to large a degree, what does?

 

[dolf]

she was very naughty.

 

[girlsmiley]

So a lower class uneducated drunk like Sean represents all of Britain?

Just becuase the vile scum who would celebrate her death yell the loudest does not mean they represent all Britain.

The facts speak for themselves. Thatcher was the best PM short of Churchill that sad little island ever had.

No offense mate, but you're a Yank. You and Sean may not see eye to eye, but I'd take the word of a native over the word of an alien any damn day of the week.

 

[phrodeau]

BBC Radio is faced with a problem. Brits have been buying and downloading the song, "Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead" at such a pace that it is now on the charts. So, when they air the top-selling songs of the week on Sunday, are they obliged to play it?

 

[LallyH]

They're just playing a five second clip, not the full song.

 

[John Doe]

What is the point of this thread???

Isn't it obvious? It's a love letter to a dead person.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

No offense mate, but you're a Yank. You and Sean may not see eye to eye, but I'd take the word of a native over the word of an alien any damn day of the week.

Read up on what the unions did to the country prior to thatcher kicking their ass.

Google: winter of discontent.

Bodies piled as high as the garbage in the streets.

 

[girlsmiley]

Read up on what the unions did to the country prior to thatcher kicking their ass.

Google: winter of discontent.

Bodies piled as high as the garbage in the streets.

Well, I reckon it's time we call a spade a spade. I think you're picking and choosing for arguments sake, oi.

Just read what dolf posted up ^ there, and leave it at that.

 

[Scotsman69]

All you do is demonstrate your ignorance. I lived through it all. You didn't. So zip your ignorant lip.

Read up on what the unions did to the country prior to thatcher kicking their ass.

Google: winter of discontent.

Bodies piled as high as the garbage in the streets.

 

[renard_ruse]

No, he was the one that sold weapons to America's enemies.

So? Which President's haven't sold weapons to Israel?

 

[renard_ruse]

I believe he's trying to say that the actual British people who lived through the Thatcher era and did not regard it as their Golden Age need some American to set them straight.

Pathetic attempt to play on latent British anti-Americanism. Plenty of British people who lived through that period voted for Mrs. Thatcher. What about them? Do they not count for anything?

 

[renard_ruse]

Isn't it obvious? It's a love letter to a dead person.

Like the Martin Luther King holiday every year?

 

[Ishmael]

Perhaps the Brits may indeed beat us to the 'classless' society.

Ishmael

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Churchill was booted from office as well...

 

[Sean]

Read up on what the unions did to the country prior to thatcher kicking their ass.

Google: winter of discontent.

Bodies piled as high as the garbage in the streets.

No, what happened was that inflation was out of control, mainly due to US factors, and wages were limited to less than half the inflation rate. People went on strike because they couldn't afford to feed their families.

And no bodies were piled in the streets, one group of grave diggers in one city, Liverpool, went on strike. But don't let facts get in the way.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Margaret Thatcher came to lead the U.K. in 1979 after a series of disputes between the government and Britain's then-powerful trade unions.
The new British Prime Minister set out to wage war on what she saw was the "enemy within" the U.K., and many people supported her in this fight.
To understand why Thatcher had this support, check out these photos of central London from 1979s "Winter of Discontent", which show trash piling up on the streets after U.K.'s dustmen (a.k.a. garbage collectors) went on strike.
It's worth bearing in mind that Leicester Square is pretty much the epicenter of London's glamorous West End — a tourism hot spot where movie premieres are held.
These photos show the incredible effect the unions (and union strikes) had on the average citizen's life, and — amazingly — they occurred under Thatcher's predecessor, Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan, a left-wing leader who relied on the union's support!
Just a few months after these photos were taken, Callaghan lost a confidence vote in the House of Commons and was obliged to call an election. Thatcher was voted in to power in the U.K., and the Conservative Party enjoyed 18 years of government.


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