Thatcher Dies

[johnny 2 367]

 

What ever anyone thought of her, as the UK first female PM, the Iron Lady made history and will always be remembered.

She certainly made history but for all the wrong reasons,just look at the amount of men she let die on hunger strike in 1981.

Oh the feckin irony pmsl

[stewie 3,387]

bet dell is red raw in the nether regions............

[Banter 1,751]

this topic was always going to come round to this subject..an at the end of the day she f****d her own people why would she give a f**k about the irish

[johnny 2 367]

this topic was always going to come round to this subject..an at the end of the day she f****d her own people why would she give a f**k about the irish

Perhaps the brighton bomb didn't help?

[Banter 1,751]

 

 

this topic was always going to come round to this subject..an at the end of the day she f****d her own people why would she give a f**k about the irish

Perhaps the brighton bomb didn't help?

 

 

that was after

[johnny 2 367]

 

 

this topic was always going to come round to this subject..an at the end of the day she f****d her own people why would she give a f**k about the irish

Perhaps the brighton bomb didn't help?

 

that was after

Remember Airey Neave five years earlier?

[Banter 1,751]

 

 

 

 

 

 

this topic was always going to come round to this subject..an at the end of the day she f****d her own people why would she give a f**k about the irish

Perhaps the brighton bomb didn't help?

 

 

that was after

Remember Airey Neave five years earlier?

 

 

 

 

im not the man for this bit of the debate i dont have anything against Airey Nieave but thatcher is a good weed in the ground

[Guest norseman]

best news ive heard in a long time she was a rat!

[johnny 2 367]

I do hope scargill follows suit,quickly the biggest scab ever

[twobob 1,497]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what would you say her accomplishments has prime minister were gnash? .i personally believe she destroyed this country ,she changed the identity of great britain as it were .for ever .

I dont get into debates on subjects i dont know enough about and i really dont have a great knowledge or interest in politics Brookie........my simple point is the fact a grocers daughter reached the very highest level of her profession.............i admire that.

That said,do you think she left the country in a worse state than she found it then ?.......just out of interest like.

gnash i think she destroyed this country and its heritage .i firmly believe the countries like it is now because of what this woman did when she was in power

Think what the country was like before Thatcher, 3 day week, black outs, rubbish not collected.., Love or hate her she was firm in her beliefs and turned this country around economically plus she terrified what was left of the soviets and the rest of the world because they knew she'd push the button

 

Made Britain strong imo Labour came along and made us weak again Now give UKIP a chance

 

RIP Maggie

yes she destroyed all the industry in this country .she sold all the family silver as well .privatisation brought about huge price increasing .she destroyed communities and didnt give two fucks .about kids around the country starving to near death .she dressed soldiers up as filth and gave them free hand to batter working class men standing up for theyre jobs theyre homes and theyre families .she destroyed the unions as well .the same unions that would have not allowed all these tens of thousands of foreigners into our country taking all the jobs .why do you think theres an acute housing shortage in this country today .maggie did nothing good for this country and dont kid yourself that she did . theres thousands of penshioners today and children sitting in theyre houses freezing cold because they cannot afford the heating thanks to her privatising the energy companies .the poll tax .i could go on and on .but we will agree on one thing and thats ukip next for me

Unions ie scargill and his like caused the strikes face it they had too much power, pulled the wool over the workers eyes and Maggie saw through them and broke them. Unfortunately the workers were hoodwinked into the war by union cronies and became casualties.

 

Agree the housing shortage today is an impact from mass immigration but you want to look to Labour for that one.

 

Gas was really cheap until early 2000's remember? Why because we had reserves in the North Sea which thanks to privatisation we had the money invested to source it.

 

The lack of money now can be traced straight to Labour - Blair and his cronies. The last Conservative government handed over a country wealthy, powerful economically (Financial capital of the world), the pension fund was overflowing, the gold reserves were at their highest recorded, we had subsidised energy, unemployment was on the fall, I could go on.

 

Shroom

privatization why was gas,electric,water,bt council houses all sold at below the market

value & that financial capital has just brought the country to it's knees bailing it out, nowt

to do with any goverment other than they never regulated it tightly enough that's why it

happened world wide not just here the whole lot was a house of cards ffs

Because the investment needed to totally modernise Britains service's infrastructure was massive and nobody was going to pay full price for a company that would need the same amount again reinvested. Look at the internet, BT literally single handed took the UK into the next century.

a market price is a market price, you would have more money if you didn't sell below

the market price so why sell cheap,& where did all this money go what infrastructure

did we radically upgrade roads, rail, i don't think so

Actually the private sector did begin to upgrade the roads but they were contractors (remember Labour sacked majority of the road workers and outsourced everything to their cronie mates who owned companies like Morrisons, Balfor etc not Maggie's government) then Labour came in with new stupid legislations like all backfill from roadworks (remember they used to pile it next to the hole) was now classed as industrial waste and had to be removed when the work was finish new aggregate had to be sourced to fill the hole. Stupid things like that that cost money and eventually stall larger projects or increase the costs of the most basic ones.

 

The railways have had billions in upgrades since privatisation, Gas storage capacity has increased onland but so has offshore mapping to profile out next gas reserves all done by private firms, Electricity grid has been modernised to such an extent that the technology monitoring and controling it is akin to supercomputer level, very not cheap.

 

Tell ya what I'd wish for another Maggie type now, someone with backbone, conviction and the iron will to see it through instead of yes men terrified of upsetting someone in Europe or a bloody immigrant at home.

yes the railways have had billions and the shareholders millions partly funded by the tax payer

[C Hall 552]

 

The poll tax was a massive mistake and her downfall out of politics, but who doesnt make mistakes

 

Who did TB and new labour get in to advise them when they came into office? Maggie.

 

The mentality of voting labour just because you live in a certain area or are from a certain background is just plain silly, a monkey could be in the labour seat around here and it would get voted into parliment ffs.

is that another one of your best kept secrets??????

 

Does it sound like one, bother someone else please

Edited April 9, 2013 by C Hall

[twobob 1,497]

Better dead than red i suppose. apparently opening uo the mines would require a large injection of capital due to flooding private companies would possibly come in but the governments have just bumped up the carbon tax which is resulting in the shutting of our remaining coal power stations. over the weekend british geology society have estimated that we are sitting on enough shale gas to power every home in britain for a century so that could be a positive and ukips manifesto states they want to bin off wind and reopen the mines although working in castleford and looking at all the young weed smoking dossers i doubt many of them woupd be upto a career grafting down the pit lol.

wasnt like that before the pits closed

[twobob 1,497]

WELL MY OLD MAN WASNT FAR OF THAT FOR 9 YRS,AND BEFORE YOU COME BACK WITH ANOTHER BITTER COMMENT HPW MUCH DO THE BUILDING TRADE,SHOP KEEPERS,HOSPITALITY GET OR GOT COMPARED TO A MINER IN REDUNDANCY,THEY WHERE OVER PAID AND TREATED TO WELL,AND GOOD ON THATCHER FOR DOING WHAT SHE DID,

and your a fxcking liar i did ten year down the pits 13500 redundancy

[johnny 2 367]

 

WELL MY OLD MAN WASNT FAR OF THAT FOR 9 YRS,AND BEFORE YOU COME BACK WITH ANOTHER BITTER COMMENT HPW MUCH DO THE BUILDING TRADE,SHOP KEEPERS,HOSPITALITY GET OR GOT COMPARED TO A MINER IN REDUNDANCY,THEY WHERE OVER PAID AND TREATED TO WELL,AND GOOD ON THATCHER FOR DOING WHAT SHE DID,

and your a fxcking liar i did ten year down the pits 13500 redundancy

Not to bad,hardly in the job long enough to get your boots dirty.

[Guest scramble]

 

WELL MY OLD MAN WASNT FAR OF THAT FOR 9 YRS,AND BEFORE YOU COME BACK WITH ANOTHER BITTER COMMENT HPW MUCH DO THE BUILDING TRADE,SHOP KEEPERS,HOSPITALITY GET OR GOT COMPARED TO A MINER IN REDUNDANCY,THEY WHERE OVER PAID AND TREATED TO WELL,AND GOOD ON THATCHER FOR DOING WHAT SHE DID,

and your a fxcking liar i did ten year down the pits 13500 redundancy

Thats a good payout for 10 years in a pit, compared to the average house price thats akin to 65K in todays money.

Try getting made redundant from the army after 10 years for 40k, todays soldier has had to deal with a feck load more than your average pit worker

All those that have served in Afghanistan im sure will agree.

dry your eyes mate, you aint the only one been f****d over by a british government.

Edited April 9, 2013 by scramble