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RIP Magaret Thatcher

"The problem with Socialism, is that you eventually run out of other people's money...." & " .....Gentlemen, i have spent the night thinking about the Falkland invasion and this Peruvian peace initiative, & i have to tell you that if you accept the initiative, you will be looking for a new prime minister....."

RIP
 
I knew when I looked on here, the majority would be in agreement that she was a great leader.

Many on other forums loathed and detested her every breath.

She sure split opinion then and she does now.
 
Fraccie said:
I knew when I looked on here, the majority would be in agreement that she was a great leader.

Many on other forums loathed and detested her every breath.

She sure split opinion then and she does now.
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You turn if you want to Ade, but the Members on CS are not for turning

Love or loathe her - British Icon and the Country was in rack & ruin prior to her. The Country was run by the Unions
 
candellara said:
You turn if you want to Ade, but the Members on CS are not for turning

Love or loathe her - British Icon and the Country was in rack & ruin prior to her. The Country was run by the Unions
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I have no real love nor distaste for the Lady mate, reading other forums, there are plenty that would disagree with you,some that agree.

One thing is for sure,I wish some of the pathetic,cowardly,lily livered weaklings that have governed us since had the same backbone.
 
I don't know whether she was a great politician but certainly a great leader.
I can remember trying to get some drawings out on time for a foreign contract working by a GAZ lamp for light and heat, BL were producing Friday afternoon cars all week long and demanding more money for less hours. Very negative time for the country. Some unions running rampage.
She was certainly the right person for the job at that time IMO.
 
Anyone old enough will remember with dismay when you had to wait months and months for the state run GPO to install a telephone line, when virtually every week some or other union would call a strike at a moment's notice based on a show of hands and disrupt our lives, when inflation was running at well over 20% pa, when the state of the pound was such that you weren't allowed to take more then £50 out of the country in any year.

Not saying that Maggie got it all right, she didn't. I am quite sure that our industrial decline was going to happen anyway, it just appeared a bit more of a brutal decline under Maggie because she got it over and done with in fairly quick order which to my mind was the best way of managing the problem.

I suspect most on here will hold her in admiration, as I do. I do however have friends who hated her with a vengeance. But I do wonder how much worse this country would be now without her time in office. I think there are a load of hypocritical politicians out there now who blame her for all the ills of the last 20 years, while it it really their own weaknesses that have failed to keep her reforms under control.

RIP Maggie
 
RIP Margaret Thatcher

A wonderful leader has left us today,she believed in free enterprise and put the uk back where it belongs!
 
Mallard said:
I don't know whether she was a great politician but certainly a great leader.
I can remember trying to get some drawings out on time for a foreign contract working by a GAZ lamp for light and heat, BL were producing Friday afternoon cars all week long and demanding more money for less hours. Very negative time for the country. Some unions running rampage.
She was certainly the right person for the job at that time IMO.
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Soooooooo right
 
I've said it elsewhere already and now I'll say it here. She was, ironically, the only PM of my lifetime who came across as having any balls. RIP Mrs T.
 
I think this is a well balanced summary - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22076886

I note with some distaste, and lack of surprise, that where they are having the celebrations of her passing is just where so many of this country's problems lie - idle, good for nothing layabouts who never wanted work and think the country owes them a living.
What saddens me even more however are those like one of my collegues here who have had a good living and come form a good quite high class background yet hate her with a vengenge. Just wtf do they think "their" party would have done with that arsehole Scargill?
 
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