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Sashadroogie · Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:46 pm Post subject: She's gone!

Maggie passes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22067155

tttompatz · Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:02 pm Post subject:

R.I.P. Lady Thatcher.

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nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

A woman is like a tea bag -- you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, former US First Lady (1884 - 1962)

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

"I love argument. I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me - that's not their job,"

They could have been my own words, but were in fact those of the late, great Margaret Thatcher. She didn't mind that she divided opinion, that is the nature of democracy. She did believe strongly in her own opinions - a conviction politician, a rarity these days - and was never afraid to express them against the tide of popular, and populist, opinion. I happen to be one of her greatest fans, but I sincerely hope that others can see her greatness, even if their political opinions differ. I was lucky enough to enter adulthood at the start of her first term in office and enjoy the fruits of her reforms as I started working. I saw a politician who entered office with a plan, worked that plan and left office leaving the country in an infinitely healthier state than when she started, another rarity. A country riddled with inefficient nationalized industries, strikes and general discontent became a place where hard work and enterprise were encouraged, supported and rewarded.

RIP Baroness Thatcher, you will be missed. You represented a world that supported individualism - my kind of world - and one where unswerving support and defence of your country was something to be admired.

johnslat · Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 6:00 pm Post subject:

Even the Iron Lady must, as we all do, go down to rust.

Rest in Peace.

Regards,
John

artemisia · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 875 Location: the world

And a good thing too. Goodbye and good riddance.

I say that because of the effect of some of the policies endorsed by the Tories of the time - and she headed that government. I don't mourn her passing.

it'snotmyfault · Joined: 14 May 2012 Posts: 527

I was at primary school when Thatcher stopped the free school milk, and my primary school was very strict about it.

I can remember half the class getting a small bottle of milk at break time and the older kids (including me) just getting water, and not really understanding why but feeling a sense of injustice. The way seven year olds do.

RIP milk snatcher Thatcher Smile

Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:18 am Post subject:

The Beeb's view of Russians' view of Maggie:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22072291

HLJHLJ · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 1218 Location: Ecuador

The woman who fought sanctions against South Africa, who condemned Mandela but backed Pol Pol and Pinochet. She drew her battle lines according to wealth and privilege, her policies didn't reward hard work, they rewarded wealth. Let the rich get richer, and they did.

I don't think the damage she did will ever be repaired, I'm not even sure that it can be repaired. 'Every man for himself' is now indelibly etched on the British psyche. As long as there is a profit to be made you can screw anyone and anything and it's all good. The weakest and most vulnerable are the easiest pickings so of course you should start there.

Yes those old inefficient nationalised services have been transformed into efficient money making machines, they now bank billions in profit. Meanwhile millions of households live in fuel poverty, and hundreds of thousands more join them every year. Half of them pensioners, almost all of them vulnerable. The profits get siphoned off into the off-shore accounts of those who already have more money than they can possibly spend, and tens of thousands of pensioners die from the cold each winter.

That there are so many Brits who are proud to proclaim that this is 'their kind of world' saddens me beyond words. I'm under no illusion, I know the majority do truly believe it. But it's not my kind of world at all, the horror of it makes me cringe with shame and disgust.

So although I'm not celebrating her death, I'm glad she's gone. It's like when you catch some unpleasant and slightly venomous insect in your house, a mukade or a scorpion perhaps. I don't wish it dead, but if it dies in the process of being caught and put outside, I don't really care. Either way, there is a definite feeling that things are better once it's gone.

kev7161 · Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 5880 Location: Suzhou, China

On a related note, Annette Funicello also died on the same day. M-I-C . . . See you real soon!

jaffa · Joined: 25 Oct 2012 Posts: 403

Bloody awful member of the human race. Trouble is she spawned even more merchants of greed for future generations.

Xie Lin · Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 731

The woman who single-handedly did more damage to Britain than anyone in the last 70 years. Conviction, indeed. It's one thing to promote free market principles; quite another to be a free market idiot.

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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Her admirers like to tell us that she saved GB from economic ruin. In fa t she merely postponed disaster for a generartion - and at untold cost.

Look around Britain now and you will see the results of the economic policies pursued by this vile English Tory.

Javelin of Radiance · Joined: 01 Jul 2009 Posts: 1187 Location: The West

RIP Lady Thatcher.

HLJHLJ · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 1218 Location: Ecuador

Where will her grave be? In the past it was said that she wanted her ashes interred with Denis' outside the Royal in Chelsea (a veteran's home). I can't see that being very practical as it will presumably have to be guarded for years to come. I'd have thought it would need to be somewhere more secure.