The Long Overdue Thatcher's Dead Thread!

[Darth Mandarb]

"Say what you will about Nazism, but at least it's an ethos"; sure, but that doesn't mean we can't condemn it.

"Say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, at least it's an ethos" </lebowski fanboy>

[Stee]

And although many of us here will consider her to be *wrong*, it doesnt mean she was *bad*, merely mistaken.

Tell that to the sailors of the Belgrano..

We were in a recession at the time and I don't doubt that cuts where necessary. However I think a lot of the decisions she made, especially in regards to the miners and privatisation, did the country more harm than good.

She scrapped the coal mines - we now import our energy. That is thousands of jobs taken out of the country and outsourced.

She deregulated the banks - the reason we are in this mess AGAIN.

She privatised water, gas, electricity, telecoms, the rail system. The result being everyone is getting ripped off because the companies can charge what they want for these services. We have governing bodies like Ofcom and Ofgem that are supposed to regulate these firms, but as can be seen in recent news they are not really interested.

You want to know why they are not interested?

Because your beloved politicians want a nice comfy seat on the board of these companies when their political careers come to an end. That's the price of looking the other way. That is also the reason why corporation tax is getting cut.


She is one of David Cameron's biggest influences, and you can see Thatcherism in the policies he makes whilst in power. I remember one of the statements they were making during the election was something along the lines of "we got you out of the recession last time". Yes, you did, by selling off everything valuable the state owned. There isn't much left to sell now!!!

That is why she was bad. That is why people are having street parties to celebrate her death even if it is somewhat over the top. The only shame in it is that she didn't die 30 years earlier in that hotel.

Unfortunately we are going to have much of the same crap all over again. I don't know what the solution to the recession is. But I know a second era of Thatcherism isn't the answer

The Royal Mail will go soon. I fear for the safety of the NHS. I can't think of anything else of value we have left.

Maybe we can auction off the Royal Family...

And no, she doesn't deserve a state funeral, or whatever they are dressing it up as. But it's nice to be doubly certain that she is dead

[bicilotti]

https://twitter.com/davidbcooper/status/321305470797217792

[Retro Wolf]

She supposedly helped invent soft serve ice cream.........mmmmm ice cream.......

[SSH]

Interestingly, Thatcher destroyed the last ship to survive Pearl Harbour. The Belgrano was formerly the USS Phoenix, one of only a few ships to survive the Japanese attack in 1941. All the others were scrapped before 1982.

[kaput]

Had to share this article.

[Snarky]

"Say what you will about Nazism, but at least it's an ethos"; sure, but that doesn't mean we can't condemn it.

"Say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, at least it's an ethos" </lebowski fanboy>

I am mortified. 

[Baron]

Meh....  Policy-wise, you get what you vote for.  People were frustrated by a sense of Britain adrift and in decline, so they voted for a new direction.  Like it, lump it or stick it, she definitely shook things up, for good or for ill.  But say what you will about her personality or politics: you have to admit she had great hair.

[Retro Wolf]

Watching the news, the funeral is going to cost the taxpayer 10 million pounds?!