Margaret Thatcher Dies After A Stroke.

[Stiggy]

Margaret Thatcher Dies After A Stroke.

 

I wonder what she was stroking ???????

[Vista]

Inserts wooden spoon and gives the pot a good stir:

 

RIP Maggie, saviour of the nation from death by a thousand union driven strikes!!

[ZetecVan 2.0]

Not forgetting the Falklands.

 

What gets me is all the hatred being spouted on Twitter. From 20-30 year olds who wouldn't even remember her in power. Amazing how bitter people can get by having their milk taken off them.

[aardvark101]

I bet Arthur Scargill is on the lash tonight

[Vista]

Send the disaffected youth of today back to the winter of discontent with half of the country out on strike at any time, rubbish rotting in the streets and corpses going unburied. Let's see what song they sing then.

 

If you want to know who really killed British industry, then look no further than Scargill and his ilk.

[rallyesport04]

im not old enough to remember her in power but as a kid it was drummed into me that she was a bad person so your comment about the milk is quite accurate

[Mk2Jo]

There was good and bad but she had balls of steel;)

[Vista]

Here's a scary statistic for you to consider

 

At the beginning of her time as PM in 1979, the number of days lost to industrial unrest that year was 29 million, a staggering figure!

 

Following her reforms, by the end of the 1990's it is was down to an all time low of less than half a million

[mk2 mike]

She was good to the people in my profession. And she had a lot more balls than any politician since. I met her back in 2004 and although she was a but unstable and doddery on her feet she still shuffled up about 20 odd steps to say hello. RIP.

[Col-ashtonmobile]

Maggie was one of the best pm,s ever , i remember sitting in the dark freezing in our flat in Brixton due to power cuts before she got in  , she soon sorted Scargill out as people cound,nt see the strikes although led by him never actually effected him as he was milking the unions whilst strikers did,nt get a bean ,then the falklands when Argentina invaded and scared the daylights out of the islanders , other parties were saying lets sit down and negotiate it was Maggie who said stuff you get off the island then we might consider it otherwise we.re coming down to kick you off , and the outcome we all know , a true great ,

R I P Maggie..

[welshmike]

Im not old enough to remember, and to be honest i know very little about her/what she did, but my parents, aunties, uncles and everyone i asked in work all hated her.

[gpcmatric]

Are you all forgetting privatisation. We are all paying for it now!! Gas , electric , water !!!

[Smudger105e]

Got to admit, my politics are too left wing.to like anything about Margaret Thatcher. I am a Trade Unionist, and she strangled the rights of the working man to protest about unfair behaviour.

 

Everyone is entitled to their opinion though...

[Stiggy]

Are you all forgetting privatisation. We are all paying for it now!! Gas , electric , water !!!

 

Trains, buses the list goes on.

[Vista]

You mean all those state run loss making companies that you were paying for twice? Once in your bills then again in your taxes?

[mk2 mike]

Those are the ones. How easy people forget!

[Mrs O/H/C]

I think that she was a great P.M although wasn't it her that introduced the Poll Tax ?

[gpcmatric]

You mean all those state run loss making companies that you were paying for twice? Once in your bills then again in your taxes?

Its abig circle and we a paying well over the top for it now. I used to work for a electricity utility when it was owned by the goverment and then sold to the americans who assit stripped the company, and ever since the company went downhill. Not all made aloss, the americans have the right idea and keep things owned in there country and not sold to foreign companies who can call the shots!!!

[Col-ashtonmobile]

I think that she was a great P.M although wasn't it her that introduced the Poll Tax ?

Sadly her biggest mistake was the poll tax because she did,nt listen to others ,  her blooymindedness was at its highest then ,she raised money by privitisation and allowing council houses to be bought , the privitisation increased productivity when our manufactoring was falling behind other countries , to me Scargill was the rotter to the miners , calling a strike without a ballott was not on but as i said before he was all right  he still got a wage , plus they never got a deal anyway after all that time out , he certainly sent them poor blokes down the river

[frankthefencer]

Putting politics to one side. A mum and a wife. She stood by her beliefs and was strong when the country needed her to be. Yes she made some bad decisions and yes she made some very clever ones. She was an outstanding ambassador for our country. RIP to the lady who wasn't afraid to stand up and be counted.

[mk2 mike]

Well said frank.

[Mk2Jo]

Yes, she allowed all those people the chance to buy their council houses for a fraction of their market value and then 5 years later (or whatever the allowed time frame is) they sold their council houses and made massive profits and bought bigger houses while people like me struggled to pay a mortgage on a piddling flat ....

[SmokeEm]

I am ashamed to say that I am very ignorant to politics and always have been so all I have to say on the matter is I remember the poll tax - the tax that meant me, as an 18yr old in 1988 was paying the same tax in my bedsit as my uncle was in his £1m 6 bedroom house - How the fook was that fair!

[Vista]

I am ashamed to say that I am very ignorant to politics and always have been so all I have to say on the matter is I remember the poll tax - the tax that meant me, as an 18yr old in 1988 was paying the same tax in my bedsit as my uncle was in his £1m 6 bedroom house - How the fook was that fair!

 

 

It does look extremely unfair when assessed like that but the point of it was to get away from a tax on property and turn it into a personal tax.

 

Let's look at it from the point of view of the retired couple living alone in a big house vs a family of 4 with teenage or grown up kids living in a three bedroom terraced/semi. Who places a greater load on local services, schools, Dr's surgeries, waste collection, child care allowances etc? Why is it therefore fair that the elderly couple with the large house pay so much more? Just because they lived in a large house didn't make them wealthy, they may have owned it for decades or generations even.

 

Personally I thought the Poll tax was a good idea that was catastrophically mismanaged and misused to raise extra tax overall instead of the same tax redistributed more fairly so that it was paid according to use/need.

[SmokeEm]

I'm not saying it wasn't a good idea, I'm just saying that it was VERY poorly implemented and in my case, very unfairly.