Baroness Thatcher Dies

[Ian]

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

 

[AliGage]

I thought i heard this on the radio earlier. But missed it as it was on in the background.
RIP The Iron Lady. One of the last British politicians that had the last "balls" to go against the grain and work to get things done and drive this nation forward.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

RIP Margret ,a truly fantastic woman ! who made us all proud to be british after years of Labour trash !! god bless her soul THE IRON LADY ...........

 

[Stef]

This "Iron Lady" ripped the heart out of every mining community there was from the Midlands right up through to middle Scotland.
I come from one of those community's & I for one will have a beer on the old ...
There's plenty up here who would dance on her grave as we all endured the miners strikes & she used Scotland as a guinea pig for the poll tax!!!

 

[Ian]

Grantham is at a standstill, high street is shut, news crews everywhere. Think the police will be busy, bound to be some protestors about.

 

[Concrete guy]

Like her politics or not, she had character and a backbone, especially when dealing with EU nonsense.

She also donated her entire PM's salary to charity and drew no income from the taxpayer.

We need more politicians like her, not the money grubbing self promoting career grabbers we have now.

 

[AliGage]

This "Iron Lady" ripped the heart out of every mining community there was from the Midlands right up through to middle Scotland.
I come from one of those community's & I for one will have a beer on the old ...
There's plenty up here who would dance on her grave as we all endured the miners strikes & she used Scotland as a guinea pig for the poll tax!!!

I was too young to vote for her. I don't agree with some of her actions. But i do have a lot of admiration for people who stand by there opinion and have the courage to carry out what they say.
No politition will do right by everybody. That's why there's more than one party. I admire the lady for her British mentality and the fact she had a backbone. Something most MP's seem to be lacking of late.

 

[DGJ]

She divides opinion but as ATS says, what we wouldn't give to have politicians like her in this day and age instead of the money grabbing mummies boys we have

 

[Andy Allen]

she done us proud during the falklands war...

 

[CJ]

I was one of the thousands that ended up in court for non payment of poll tax when she first bought that pearler out.


I want my milk back as well.

 

[Andy Allen]

I was one of the thousands that ended up in court for non payment of poll tax when she first bought that pearler out.


I want my milk back as well.[/QUOTE]

I remember that...'.Maggie thatcher the milk snatcher'

 

[John Benton]

Second to Churchill, our greatest politician. Stood up for this country and wouldn't let people walk all over us like they do today. She would have eaten Tony Bliar for breakfast.

Could you imagine the likes of Abu Hamza hanging around for long if she was still in charge. He would have been shipped out years ago, along with anyone with a hatred for Great Britain.

She may have broken the mining community but if anyone can tell me what Arthur Scargill did for them, I'm all ears.

 

[Ian]

I like the deliberate typo John :lol:

 

[rich83]

strangely i was watching tv ,in last couple of days about how you need 8 hours sleep ,she of course was famous for 3 hours a night.the presenter actually mentioned barroness thatcher.and said she may of made some rash decisions ,because of being sleep deprived.but like or loath her ,me being the former.she had some tough choices to make.and lets face it .theres not a person alive ,that everyone likes.r.i.p

 

[John Benton]

I like the deliberate typo John :lol:

You mean I deliberately missed out Scargill's middle name?

 

[Ian]

You mean I deliberately missed out Scargill's middle name?

Bliar, brilliant!

 

[John Benton]

I was being polite when I called him that Bri.

He has brought this country to it's knees along with his champagne socialists buddies, and now he's off swanning about the middle east as a 'peace envoy'. That's going really well apparently.

Him and that witch of a wife, Barrister, human rights etc she was coining it in, almost certainly telling his party what new laws to make and riding on the back of it.

Broken Britain, and we know who broke it!!!

 

[White Room]

One tough lady and gained alot of respect from other politicians, she gave the army a pay rise in the seventies and upped our danger money for serving troops from 50p a day to £1

 

[Ian]

Couldn't agree more John. Everyone is getting on Cameron's case when, lets face it, he's got years and years worth of Bliars **** ups to put right. Yes he could do with toughening up a bit but, he's got some mess to fix.

 

[John Benton]

If Labour had still been in power we would be in the same boat as Greece and Cyprus.

Labour policy has always been to spend, spend, spend. When that happens you're only heading in one direction. It's always down to the conservatives to pick up the baton when labour have been kicked out. Then they get it in the neck for cuts. Could you imagine Ed Ballsup running this countries finances. He was Browns advisor when he was PM and he's the bloke who sold our gold reserves at it's lowest price. I've said it before Brown couldn't make money picking tenners up of the floor for a living!!!!!

 

[bugs183]

We also have to thank Meggie for soft serve ice cream:
Margaret Thatcher May Have Helped Invent Soft-Serve Ice Cream - Megan Garber - The Atlantic

 

[nybor62]

my family suffered because of her hatred for the N,U,M my father was on strike for over a year, standing up for what he believed in ,
she ripped the heart out of our community
and i for one celebrate her death , REST IN HELL

 

[Rookery]

I believe she was against the closed shop rather than the NUM on the basis that it was undemocratic.

 

[nybor62]

oh so if the N U M had voted to strike , she would.nt have sent in the police to my town , using heavy handed tactics , bragging how much there were earning , and taunting the miners , lighting there **** with 5 pound notes, which i saw with my own eyes
maybe if them spineless lot from nottingham , had got a back bone , things might have been different, but know im allright jack sod u lot
makes my blood boil still

 

[Colour Republic]

So maggie get's blasted for what many say she bulldosed her way through yet scargill gets to do exactly the same without support and is left unscathed?

It wasn't just nottingham BTW it was much more wide spread than that

kettle pot black IMO