Thatcher is dead.

[LallyH]

Well, we won't do any better by drafting pols, will we?

No, but the manifesto on which a political party bases its campaign, and upon which the voters make their choice, should be binding. And if that is an unfair burden to be placed on them - tough. It might make the bastards tell the truth when they're trying to persuade us to give them the well paid job, expense account, personal driver and executive perks. Because in essence, a political campaign is a job interview.

Put it this way - if I hire someone who tells me at the interview that they have a particular skill, and then it transpires that they don't and they lied just to get the job, they get fired. I suggest the same for politicians.

It will prevent another Nick Clegg/tuition fees rip off.

 

[Sean]

I think I'll start a petition to have her buried at a crossroads with a stake through her heart.

 

[islandman]

Someone explain the hate to me.

I lived in England for several years in the 80s and can recall family members buying bigger/nicer houses and multiple cars when they previously had only one. Most of them went from middle class to solidly upper middle class in the 80s and 90s.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I sent my mate a few desks away your Ken Loach pic, there's tons of them pinned up all over the council now. Went down a treat!

 

[Sean]

Someone explain the hate to me.

I lived in England for several years in the 80s and can recall family members buying bigger/nicer houses and multiple cars when they previously had only one. Most of them went from middle class to solidly upper middle class in the 80s and 90s.

Oh, undoubtedly a minority did very well out of the cunt. The police, for instance, all bought themselves new houses out of the overtime they got from crushing the miners. The majority of the country, however, got fucked. The North of England, Scotland, Wales, the Midlands, the West Country became wastelands. Whole communities were destroyed and, the most lasting legacy of all, she fostered a "greed is good and fuck you I got mine" mentality that had never existed in this country before. A million years of torture in Hell wouldn't make up for what6 she did to my country.

 

[LallyH]

Someone explain the hate to me.

I lived in England for several years in the 80s and can recall family members buying bigger/nicer houses and multiple cars when they previously had only one. Most of them went from middle class to solidly upper middle class in the 80s and 90s.

Out of curiosity, and I think I'll know the answer, which part of south east England were you living in?

 

[rosco rathbone]

Oh, undoubtedly a minority did very well out of the cunt. The police, for instance, all bought themselves new houses out of the overtime they got from crushing the miners. The majority of the country, however, got fucked. The North of England, Scotland, Wales, the Midlands, the West Country became wastelands. Whole communities were destroyed and, the most lasting legacy of all, she fostered a "greed is good and fuck you I got mine" mentality that had never existed in this country before. A million years of torture in Hell wouldn't make up for what6 she did to my country.

And now England--birthplace of the Industrial Revolution--- is basically The City, a bunch of Russian mobsters buying mansions near Hyde Park, and a whole lot of chavs dealing E's and getting their girls pregnant on the dole.

 

[dolf]

And now England--birthplace of the Industrial Revolution--- is basically The City, a bunch of Russian mobsters buying mansions near Hyde Park, and a whole lot of chavs dealing E's and getting their girls pregnant on the dole.

depressing.

 

[islandman]

Oh, undoubtedly a minority did very well out of the cunt. The police, for instance, all bought themselves new houses out of the overtime they got from crushing the miners. The majority of the country, however, got fucked. The North of England, Scotland, Wales, the Midlands, the West Country became wastelands. Whole communities were destroyed and, the most lasting legacy of all, she fostered a "greed is good and fuck you I got mine" mentality that had never existed in this country before. A million years of torture in Hell wouldn't make up for what6 she did to my country.

Can't say I knew those areas very well.

Out of curiosity, and I think I'll know the answer, which part of south east England were you living in?

Amersham, in the Chiltern district of Bucks.

 

[Sean]

And now England--birthplace of the Industrial Revolution--- is basically The City, a bunch of Russian mobsters buying mansions near Hyde Park, and a whole lot of chavs dealing E's and getting their girls pregnant on the dole.

Yep. She destroyed industries that employed millions so the banks and The City could profit. Britain s worse than most problems following the crash are directly as a result of Thatcherite policies.

 

[Sean]

Can't say I knew those areas very well.

It's only about 90% of the country.

Amersham, in the Chiltern district of Bucks.

Figures.

 

[islandman]

It's only about 90% of the country.



Figures.

Nothing but rolling fields, grass and farm animals as the eye could see. I was 7ish, so that was enough for me.

 

[Sean]

Nothing but rolling fields, grass and farm animals as the eye could see. I was 7ish, so that was enough for me.

Stockbroker country.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

No doubt she was a royal cunt....from the perspective of a corrupt, lazy, union retard that is.

Otherwise she only saved the economy and made Britain relevant again.

What a bitch!

 

[Sean]

No doubt she was a royal cunt....from the perspective of a corrupt, lazy, union retard that is.

Otherwise she only saved the economy and made Britain relevant again.

What a bitch!

I see you take after your impotent old man in looking like a total ignorant cretin when it comes to talking about Britain.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

I see you take after your impotent old man in looking like a total ignorant cretin when it comes to talking about Britain.

You should go to her grave, dig her up, and lick her decaying cunt for staying away from the euro......

 

[Sean]

You should go to her grave, dig her up, and lick her decaying cunt for staying away from the euro......

Ever hear of the ERM and Norman Lamont? The Euro didn't come in until nine years after she left office, you fucking retard.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Ever hear of the ERM and Norman Lamont? The Euro didn't come in until nine years after she left office, you fucking retard.

So the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, was not the precursor to the euro?

All of Europe decided on the euro over night?

 

[Sean]

So the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, was not the precursor to the euro?

All of Europe decided on the euro over night?

And Thatcher took us into the ERM. Are you on drugs or just a product of child abuse?

 

[VaticanAssassin]

And Thatcher took us into the ERM. Are you on drugs or just a product of child abuse?

educate yourself....

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5162d9986bb3f7342f000018-606-533/downingstreetyearemu.jpeg

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5162d9d4eab8ea151200001f-482-398/pathtopoweremu.jpeg

 

[Sean]

educate yourself....

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5162d9986bb3f7342f000018-606-533/downingstreetyearemu.jpeg


http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5162d9986bb3f7342f000018-606-533/downingstreetyearemu.jpeg

Yeah, like your old man, Google shit you don't understand in the hope it will make your non-existent point. Iggy.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Yeah, like your old man, Google shit you don't understand in the hope it will make your non-existent point. Iggy.

Ha!!!!

 

[VaticanAssassin]

watch Thatcher denounce the euro for any idiot that believes Sean...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tetk_ayO1x4


http://www.theatlantic.com/business...y-the-euro-is-a-terrible-idea-in-1990/274768/

 

[LallyH]

Can't say I knew those areas very well.


Amersham, in the Chiltern district of Bucks.

You were obviously unaware that you were living in one of the most affluent areas of the country, cushioned from the effects of Tory economic policy. If you had ventured further north you would have seen the deprivation that generated the misery and anger that has fuelled this thread over the past day.

My husband lived in Sheffield in the 80s and once went on a visit to see someone in London during that time. He said tonight that it was like seeing technicolor after black and white - prosperity, wealth, activity, people rushing around because they had a purpose, employment, hope, opportunity. Contrast that with South Yorkshire at the time - mile after mile of empty factories and steel mills, queues of miserable men and women at the unemployment office chasing non-existent work.

If Margaret Thatcher's policies of slash and burn to make the economy more efficient at a lower cost had actually worked, then the misery she caused through those policies might be mitigated. But the fact is they failed. Unemployment is still high, our banking system has been ransacked by those who were supposed to govern it, we have no manufacturing base, and the utilities that she took out of public ownership are now owned by non UK companies who give us the same poor service we had before at a significantly higher cost.

 

[dougsan]

I can't finish reading posts, I am so angry. Sean, the statistics you quote as reflecting Reagan's presidency are correct. But the job Regan did for the USA was too great to be measured. After the peanut farmer left office, the USA was a country mired in selfpity and fearful of the future. We were directionless. When we feel that way we don't spend money. When capatalists don't spend money their economy shuts down, as ours did. Regan stood up and addressed us as his children. He told us things were lousy but it was his job to worry about it, not ours. He said he would figure out the solution and we should relax. He then turned back on the lights Carter has turned off to "save money."

As dumb and stupid as it sounds, it's what he did. We relaxed and began spending money again. Spending money for the first time in years made us happy and we spent yet more money. The spending carried the USA out of despair. Ronald Regan saved our economy in just the way you'd expect a movie actor to do it, with smoke and mirrors and by treating us as loke children. Say what you will about the man, he did what had to be done at the time. Lady Thatcher, IMO, did what had to be done, but she did not do it gently.