Margaret Thatcher dies of a stroke.

[Designer1]

A vile, vindictive bitch who played a major part in the destruction of many lives and communities.

 

I won't 'celebrate' her death as such, but I certainly won't mourn either. 

[hogso]

 

and on Thatcher, I couldn't give a **** if she's alive or dead.

[CI]

I imagine her grave will need to be either hidden / concealed or have a permanent police presence or be in a restricted access area. She goes down in history as a very unpopular leader.

[BOF]

They killed Market?

[mjmooney]

[Mantis]

I imagine her grave will need to be either hidden / concealed or have a permanent police presence or be in a restricted access area. She goes down in history as a very unpopular leader.

 

Not really. Divisive yes but hardly unpopular.

 

[mjmooney]

hardly unpopular.

 

 

[drat01]

She was what the UK needed in 1979, a focused individual who recognised the evil of the socialist ideology that had held the country to ransom via the unions throughout the previous decade. She faced it down and destroyed it, thus saving the country. The old socialists will never forgive her for that, but so what?

So basically destroying lives was OK was it? - Shows a lot of the people that supported her then and now, finding it acceptable.

 

Reforming of the issues of that particular society at that time could have, and should have been done with more consideration to the impacts on human lives. But of course that would have been at the expense of profits and that was the driving force behind her and her supporters then (and now). Bugger to society and balls to those who get hurt along the way.

[drat01]

Councillor David Williams, leader of the Green Party councillors in Oxfordshire, says: "Worshipping personal wealth and neglecting the common good became acceptable political creeds under her leadership and led directly to corporate greed and Westminster corruption.

"She privatised public utilities such as gas, electricity, telephones, railways, allowing private companies to use their monopoly position to squeeze the people and line their own pockets. She orchestrated a fight with the miners to punish them, starved the NHS of precious resources and half-destroyed local government."

[bickster]

Thatcher as good as created the living on benefits culture with her policies.

And we're all paying more than necessary for our utilities thanks to her too

[Mantis]

 

hardly unpopular.

 

 

Very unpopular in certain parts of the country but overall she can't really be called unpopular.

[PauloBarnesi]

Gerry Adams says she did great hurt to the people of Ireland and Britain. Makes two then Gerry.

[bickster]

hardly unpopular.

 

What like the North, The Midlands, Wales, Scotland & Ireland...?

Very unpopular in certain parts of the country but overall she can't really be called unpopular.

Like the North, The Midlands, Wales, Scotland & Ireland?

[leemond2008]

She also played a part in creating Mr Whippy ice cream I believe

 

   

[drat01]

Very good summary of her popularity and key events throughout her political life

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/interactive/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-britain

[PauloBarnesi]

 

Councillor David Williams, leader of the Green Party councillors in Oxfordshire, says: "Worshipping personal wealth and neglecting the common good became acceptable political creeds under her leadership and led directly to corporate greed and Westminster corruption.

"She privatised public utilities such as gas, electricity, telephones, railways, allowing private companies to use their monopoly position to squeeze the people and line their own pockets. She orchestrated a fight with the miners to punish them, starved the NHS of precious resources and half-destroyed local government."

Always good to see politicians with a low grip on facts

[drat01]

That's them Greens for you Paul :-)

[tonyh29]

 

 

hardly unpopular.

 

 

What like the North, The Midlands, Wales, Scotland & Ireland...?

Very unpopular in certain parts of the country but overall she can't really be called unpopular.

 

Like the North, The Midlands, Wales, Scotland & Ireland?

nowhere that mattered then 

[BOF]

Gerry Adams says she did great hurt to the people of Ireland and Britain. Makes two then Gerry.

Yeah that probably goes in the 'takes one to know one' category

[Avfc96]

She was the best prime minister since Churchill and there has not been a better pm since. She took over at a time when Britain was on its knees and was begging the IMF to be bailed out. She took on morons like Scargill and won. Rest in peace.