Quote from: simonm on 09 April 2013, 06:41:14 pmNot sure grass clippings dumped on her grave will achieve anything.
For someone that don't like to argue, ye sure like to get your oar in and wind it up some. And stop trying to close threads you didn't start will ya?
Yes, she might have destroyed a few mining communities! However, when taken against the complete destruction of the British economy that would have have taken place if she hadn't taken such needed action, it's a relatively small price to pay!
Shouldn't all the people here complaining about what Thatcher did to the miners/steel workers etc be riding British Triumphs and not Japanese bikes?
for those too young to know any better, grab a copy of "Boys from the Black stuff"Southerners thought it was a comedy but it was the reality of life in Liverpool and the North at the time
Before Maggie this country was going down the shitter (dead not buried, car plants striking every other day, 3 day week, streets full of rubbish, inflation at 22%, the pound worth F all, petrol rationing etc.) and that was under Labour.Many of you on here really don't remember these days, I and my fellow war babies remember all what went on in this country before Maggie got in in 1979 and this country was well fucked, the IMF had to bale us out for fucks sake (Greece now) the 3 day week was the shits you could not even sign on the Buroo cos the Labour Government had no fuckin money to help families out, just like they left us after Broon & Darling had fucked us again.So don't take your ire out on someone who had all that to contend with--short memories these Labour lefties have.
Quote from: Oldgit on 09 April 2013, 04:36:34 pmBefore Maggie this country was going down the shitter (dead not buried, car plants striking every other day, 3 day week, streets full of rubbish, inflation at 22%, the pound worth F all, petrol rationing etc.) and that was under Labour.Many of you on here really don't remember these days, I and my fellow war babies remember all what went on in this country before Maggie got in in 1979 and this country was well fucked, the IMF had to bale us out for fucks sake (Greece now) the 3 day week was the shits you could not even sign on the Buroo cos the Labour Government had no fuckin money to help families out, just like they left us after Broon & Darling had fucked us again.So don't take your ire out on someone who had all that to contend with--short memories these Labour lefties have.Bullshit, she used a sledgehammer to crack a nut and took great delight in boosting her ego while doing it.This country was into debt for lots of reasons, one being the war debt we were paying to the USA - where were they when Thatcher slung our defenses into the Falklands because she wouldn't negotiate? I'd have said stick your debt up your arse after that.