maggie thatcher

[Eddy_t]

to be honest couldn't be much worse could it:001_tt2:

 

Yeah, you might have learned another language, Russian maybe, and the new pope wouldn't be preaching about the Falklands, we would be millionaires, a million rubles in the bank sounds nice

 

 

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[egnsean]

You don't disappoint me at all, and I wasn't implying to you anyway,i,m pretty sure I wouldn't of been crying to go home by brew time,believe me:laugh1:

ok fair play:001_smile: Edited April 12, 2013 by egnsean

[egnsean]

Yeah, you might have learned another language, Russian maybe, and the new pope wouldn't be preaching about the Falklands, we would be millionaires, a million rubles in the bank sounds nice

 

 

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i quite like Vodka:blushing:

[WorcsWuss]

 

Strangely I have not heard one Iota about the Poll Tax?

 

Perhaps Egnsean is right and we have too many Juniors adding comments, the Poll Tax was her biggest unfair move IMO, It was crippling for me but I dont Hate her for it!?

 

Presumably because 'the people won' on that one....?

Maggie was ousted and it was dumped and replaced with council tax which taxes you more heavily for having a higher value property rather than the flat rate of the community charge, the logic behind at least the basic original principlal I can follow. I was too young to pay the 'poll tax' BT I remember it being implemented. I remember the subsequent banding of my parents home as well.

[alex_m]

Just in case anyone isn't bored. This is a great article.

 

Mark Steel: You can't just shut us up now that Margaret Thatcher's dead - Comment - Voices - The Independent

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The Iron Lady. May she Rust in peace.

 

Just spat mi cornflakes out :lol:

[High Scale]

Ex-miners to join the anti-Thatcher protesters in Trafalgar Square

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

you weren't in a weed induced haze by any chance were you:001_tt2:

 

No you were.

 

Never touched drugs in my life,just worked hard 6-7 days a week and never relied on anyone to pay my way,thats why Maggie was a hero to me,if you don't understand, you didn't work in the early eighties,strikes,strikes,strikes

 

ditto.

[WorcsWuss]

Just in case anyone isn't bored. This is a great article.

 

Mark Steel: You can't just shut us up now that Margaret Thatcher's dead - Comment - Voices - The Independent

 

Started to read it, got to the second sentence and the first gross factual inaccuracy and didn't read any further. It will be more of the same poorly researched limp wristed liberal drivel pushed by the independent.

 

For the record (and it's easy to check, shame Mark Steel is too lazy to bother, although I suppose that's to be expected) she didn't label Mandela a terrorist.

 

What actually happened was that the ANC used violence against the apartheid government as the only way they could be heard. Many countries had sanctions against SA and the UK basically said that if the ANC stopped their terrorism style activities and focused on political, and if the white government released Mandela, the UK would invest. F W DeKlerk released Mandela and the rest, as we know, is history.

 

So actually, what Maggie did was to help get Mandela released.

But I wouldn't expect the facts to get in the way of any good 'ole liberal / socialist Thatcher bashing...

Edited April 13, 2013 by WorcsWuss

[likeitorlumpit]

In the late 70's we had a few problems in the UK

We had no mobile phones. Computers were basic 1mb hard drive. Cars were troublesome. Most blokes knew what plastic padding was. Central heating was only just taking off as combi boilers became easier to use. Tescos was the equivalent of Lidl. We still had vinyl as CD's hadn't taken off. Foreign travel was not widespread. Theme parks were poor. Trees were climbed with baler twine support

Did Maggie change all this. Possibly but who can really say. Was it attitudes or technology? Seems the rest of the world has changed too and that can't be down to her alone.

Maggie hurt quite a few people who had been spoilt and that made her hated. Can't say I loved her but I had to admire her balls.

What would she do about todays benefit work shysters.

Eventually everyone gets their comeuppance.