maggie thatcher

[steve@black]

Must say myself I think Thatcher grabbed the country by the scruff of the neck and got us going again and rip to her, but my concern is the joy of some people over the death of someones mother , grandmother dear friend ect , with these outpourings of hate on facebook ect should these people not be seen as internet trolls and dealt with acordingly.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Must say myself I think Thatcher grabbed the country by the scruff of the neck and got us going again and rip to her, but my concern is the joy of some people over the death of someones mother , grandmother dear friend ect , with these outpourings of hate on facebook ect should these people not be seen as internet trolls and dealt with acordingly.

 

got to agree

[Marko]

Agreed. Families still at war over a simple thing like having a vote. I think the country would have supported the miners much more if the strike had been democratic rather than autocratic. Dreadful times nevertheless.

[geoff]

Must say myself I think Thatcher grabbed the country by the scruff of the neck and got us going again and rip to her, but my concern is the joy of some people over the death of someones mother , grandmother dear friend ect , with these outpourings of hate on facebook ect should these people not be seen as internet trolls and dealt with acordingly.

 

100% agree, not agreeing with a set of politics is a right,but to rejoice in a death is despicable.

[Hodge]

Must say myself I think Thatcher grabbed the country by the scruff of the neck and got us going again and rip to her, but my concern is the joy of some people over the death of someones mother , grandmother dear friend ect , with these outpourings of hate on facebook ect should these people not be seen as internet trolls and dealt with acordingly.

 

That's why I came off Facebook, to many dickheads.

 

 

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[TimberCutterDartmoor]

but to rejoice in a death is despicable.

 

The lowest of the low imo. Really sick. The intense bitterness and hatred of those who are rejoicing shows how they are drinking the poison and hoping who they refuse to forgive to die!!!

[skyhuck]

The lowest of the low imo. Really sick. The intense bitterness and hatred of those who are rejoicing shows how they are drinking the poison and hoping who they refuse to forgive to die!!!

 

Most of them seem to be too young to have been there at the time anyway:001_rolleyes:

[WorcsWuss]

Just to add. None of my family (alot of them miners) were fans of Scargill. He was as bad a rouge as Thatcher.

 

One of my uncles was on strike for over twelve months, he wanted to go to work every day as did many other miners but the threat of having their houses burnt down by other miners was the deciding factor. Miners were waiting on bridges to drop lumps of concrete etc on other miners cars if they thought they were going to cross the picket line. I can remember more than one miner getting killed by things being thrown from bridges in my home town.

 

Unless you lived in these areas during the strike you would not understand how bad things were. There are still families that hate one and other over what went on at the time of the strike.

 

So what you're saying is that there were some really nasty scumbag miners who orchestrated the strikes, bullied ordinary folk into not working and even killed some of their colleagues and neighbours....?

Yet you still believe the government was to blame....

How could the government deal with the situation in any other way? If these were the sort of people who could do that to their friends, there was no way ANYTHING the government did would ever be accepted by them.

Maybe if those who didn't want a part if it, who would seem now to be the majority, had stood against them sooner then maybe the outcome could have been very different.....

[firewoodman]

her time was over as soon as the torys lost to labour ( not when she stepped down as PM, cos she went on to be Majors string puller then), so why drag it up now??

 

she achieved more than we ever will in our life time, but she did some good and did some bad, you might hate her, you might like her, but one day you will join her!!

 

she may have taken my milk from school, and taxed me as a student with the poll tax, I may not have liked her then, but I respect her for being a very driven person and getting the job done.

[skyhuck]

One of the things I keep hearing is that "she split communities and divided families", if she was so terrible why was their division?? surely everyone would have agreed she was awful????