Ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies

[joebloggs]

We're supposed to rejoice after winning a war ..... remembrance of all the dead comes later.

Is it just me or do others think that seeing adults on the TV celebrating the death of a human, who is someone's nan is just sick, pathetic and childish, and just shows you that respect in this country is at an all time low?

i thought 'respect' was earned , and I suppose she had little respect for some people, as they had for her.

thatcher died in Ritz, she been there for months, i wonder if she thought about the old who cant afford to heat their home or buy a ritz biscuit never mind stay in a posh hotel

In January 1982, Mrs Thatcher wrote to the Tory MP Richard Needham, defending the decision to scrap the only British warship in the vicinity of the Falklands, HMS Endurance. The government needed to save money.

Three months later, with Endurance in the wrong place and the Falklands under Argentine occupation, her government was plunged into what contemporaries saw as the worst overseas crisis since the loss of the Suez Canal.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...r-8544805.html

[stevewool]

i have come to the conclusion that lots of people are sheep, everyone just seems to follow each other, so called pop stars do a song about someone they dont like and the sheep buy it and they dont like that person too, a actor dont like someone and says so, and again the sheep dont like them too,
Watching the news yesterday and the sheep was there again singing and dancing some may not knew who Margaret Thatcher was, but hey its a party and i am a sheep so i will go along with what most are saying.
Yes maybe she did wrong, but remember you voted her in and in this free country you had the choice not to keep her in power.
You know my feeling about voting and politics so really i am saying this from a human being, what i have seen these last few days has disgusted me so much i am ashamed

[grahamw48]

You're spot on there Steve.

It's also the 'sheep' effect that makes the media and advertising industry a fortune every year, not to mention RELIGION. (Oh, did I mention religion again ).

Sometimes people also behave like LEMMINGS.

[Ako Si Jamie]

No doubt we'll see a few 'sheep' in the vicinity of Thatchers funeral too.

[Arthur Little]

No doubt we'll see a few 'sheep' in the vicinity of Thatchers funeral too.

Let's just this event passes peaceably ... WITHOUT incident!

[Ako Si Jamie]

Let's just this event passes peaceably ... WITHOUT incident!

I was talking about the Tory 'sheep' Arth!

[Arthur Little]

I was talking about the Tory 'sheep' Arth!

Ah ... you mean Edward Heath ... the man my dad used to say sounded like a bleating whenever he appeared on TV.

Latterly, there was no love lost between Heath and the woman who succeeded him as Leader of the Conservatives. And also, of course, Heath predeceased Thatcher in 2005. But, that said, I wouldn't put it past old Ted to to turn up in spirit at his sparring partner's "send off" next week. If only for the sake of laying a on her mortal remains before they're disposed of at Mortlake.

[Arthur Little]

her mortal remains

Speaking of which ... the final disposal (following the service at St Paul's) is to be a Private affair. However, I believe Boris Johnson's expected to be in attendance ... to mop up what's left of Maggie afterwards.

[joebloggs]

I was talking about the Tory 'sheep' Arth!

Labour Chancellor Denis Healey in 1978 claimed an attack from Howe was "like being savaged by a dead sheep"

[joebloggs]

No doubt we'll see a few 'sheep' in the vicinity of Thatchers funeral too.

yes I wonder if Geoffrey Howe will be there

[Arthur Little]

yes I wonder if Geoffrey Howe will be there

... Howe the would I know?

[stevewool]

i too hope everyone shows a little respect on the route, if there is an incident it should be stopped straight away and not even filmed or any pictures taken of the sheep

[grahamw48]

i too hope everyone shows a little respect on the route, if there is a incident it should be stopped straight away and not even filmed or any pictures taken of the sheep

If you see an old Goat there....that will be me.

[KeithD]

What the have sheep ever done wrong?

[KeithD]

[Pete/London]

Any one remember spitting image
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TFx9u1t1LY

some real gems

[Dedworth]

"Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master - these are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free economy... and on that freedom all our other freedoms depend."

Margaret Thatcher , 10/10/1975

[joebloggs]

"Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master - these are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free economy... and on that freedom all our other freedoms depend."

Margaret Thatcher , 10/10/1975

as for British, didn't she sell off everything that was British to buy votes , did we have British Airways, British Steel, British Gas, British Telecom etc. oh wait the taxpayer and the country owned them, now foreigners do

if she thought everyone should own a property why didnt she build a new one for every 1m council houses she sold off cheap

coming from someone who snatched milk from kids

[les_taxi]

as for British, didn't she sell off everything that was British to buy votes , did we have British Airways, British Steel, British Gas, British Telecom etc. oh wait the taxpayer and the country owned them, now foreigners do

if she thought everyone should own a property why didnt she build a new one for every 1m council houses she sold off cheap

coming from someone who snatched milk from kids

They did not need the milk by then, I remember it well a third of a pint of warm sour milk - lovely!

[Arthur Little]

a third of a pint of warm sour milk

....................... ... but, when Thatcher came along, it was pasteurised ... "past your eyes" before you'd even noticed!

[grahamw48]

I agree that foreigners shouldn't have been allowed to buy or have controlling shares in many of our previously nationalised industries...in particular, utilities.

As for council/social housing, then yes, many more should have been built, but only let out to those who could meet strict (local) residency conditions. Certainly not to asylum seekers, junkies, alcoholics, irresponsible unmarried teens etc.

Basic hostel accommodation would be quite sufficient for them (and a deterrent ).

[Dedworth]

Basic hostel accommodation would be quite sufficient for them (and a deterrent ).

Way too good Graham - I'd favour tents ringed by razor wire in a remote area

[KeithD]

Way too good Graham - I'd favour tents ringed by razor wire in a remote area

Pontins

[grahamw48]

Yep...bloody holiday camp waaaay too good.

There was me trying to be moderate.

[imagine]

"The legacy of what the Conservative government did to British industry under Thatcher is not one to be proud of if you really did want the best for the people," the NUM said in a statement.


http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/...dance-thatcher

[Dedworth]

"The legacy of what the Conservative government did to British industry under Thatcher is not one to be proud of if you really did want the best for the people," the NUM said in a statement.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/...dance-thatcher

That's the sort of tripe you'd expect the NUM to come out with.The only thing newsworthy that's come out about them in recent years is their legal wranglings to get Scargill out of their luxury London flat

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20303797

Former miners' leader Arthur Scargill has lost his High Court fight to have the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) continue to pay for his London flat.

Mr Scargill was president of the NUM until July 2002 and led it during the miners' strike from 1984 to 1985.

He stepped down as president of the union but claimed his contract entitled him to a London home for life, or the life of his widow.

Chris Kitchen, NUM general secretary, said Mr Scargill had been "found out".

Mr Scargill said that the judgment was "perverse".

[grahamw48]

If it hadn't been for the private free enterprise of the original mine owners, there would have been no mining industry employing the thousands that it ultimately did.

Workers' unions are a very good idea, and I used to be a union area rep' myself, but the union leaders just became too big for their boots, as in so many British industries at that time....then finally they killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.

[grahamw48]

Thanks for reminding me to clip my eyebrows.

[grahamw48]

Forgot to mention that my brother (then in Senegal) was the British diplomat co-ordinating the 'rescue' of Maggie's idiot son Mark when he lost himself in the Sahara that time, while competing in the Paris-Dakar rally. Bro' was also our official press relations officer, so we saw him on telly and being quoted in the newspapers.

[grahamw48]

The problem for most of the miners was that THEY were too busy working their arses off to to have time to realise what a megalomaniac that Scargill was.