Trimdon PM'd me earlier saying that after reading a thesis on her career, he is now in my camp as a Maggie fan.

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Hard bitch

Didn't like her, but quite possibly what we needed at the time

MT told everyone(the voters)exactly what she was going to do in government, and she was voted in accordingly.

doubt it

what d'ya take him for?

I never remembered her saying she would increase inflation, close the coal mines, cause a recession due to her mismanagment of the economy (TWICE)and the cry like a fucking four year old when she got her rancid old arse kicked into touch

Not a conservative then?

Not really, was it that hard to tell?.....

I kind of picked up on the odd subtle hint

Norman Tebbitt had the right philosophy as well when he told the unemployed to get on their bike and get a job clap

Fooking Labour, Maggie shit em'.

Yes it must make all Tories proud that unemployment reached 3.5 millon under their leadership

As for Tebbit, he is just an ill educated thug who got lucky, I mean just look at shithole he was MP for....

What we needed at THAT time....we need her now!!!!

Indeed I suppose we all want 15% interest rates, strikes, and 3.5 Million unemployment, seems a fair swap for beating the Argies and tax cuts, which seem to be the reason most people loved Mrs T

And lets face facts the Labour party of the 70's & 80's put up as much a fight as the Tories do now

stop trying to frighten the kids

Alan Clark (the MP, not the footballer) fancied Maggie as well, the very idea!

tory cabinet a bunch of wusses
those prep school faggots had never seen a woman other than their matron in the dorm
they did not know that you never take any of them seriously

I was thinking more of getting the shit off the streets!!!! :sweet:

another job she failed at

I still fancy her now!!

because you are a pervert
whose name should be displayed in shop windows

Well Dennis has been dead a while now, get in there while she is still warm

Good point!!!

they say you have to rely on grab a granny night's to succeed

My mum always said if you shaved her head you'd find 3 sixes.

A bitch of the highest order but hopefully the grim reaper will be calling soon and take her where she belongs

At least she didn't smile in your face while emptying your back pocket. Does anyone really think that Blair and his lying bent murderous cronies are any different to Margaret Thatchers lot??

Tell me only THREE good things about this Labour Government??

No??......Well I never....

I learnt from QI last night that the number of the beast is actually....616!!!! :sweet:

they got rid of thatcher
that is worth a three

Horrible horrible woman - who probably had to be horrible to get to the top of that fucking pile of twats!
But the Falklands was well worth it wasnt it? Always good for an election to fight a war. Never mind all those lost lives, it won an election.
My first political memory was Margaret Thatcher, milk snatcher.
I was delighted when they lost power.
Now labour have just made me totally apathetic like loads others but I would never vote tory

Well that's buggered Iron Maiden's big number

No it isn't. What's Thatchers body count?? Mr Blair is into six figures. And you work until the end of June before you get any money for yourself. He's a disaster and a liar.

Blair has many faults, particulary the war but Thatcher ruined the industries and introduced ridiculous laws like the poll tax.

We now have high employment, low interest rates and a minumum wage.

Its not that bad is it.

Bugger, I missed it last night and I was out tonight so I missed the repeat as well

one of the best programs on telly

255 British and 659 Argentines. She can't surely be held to account for Northern Ireland. There were others in Columbia, Sierra Leone, a couple of other small African countries. Only one British casualty in those latter ones.

Blair is jointly responsible for the death of the best part of a million people by the time Iraq and Afghanistan is done.

The Tories would have done the same, it's not an excuse, they would have followed suit, Thatcher did in 1990 and let's be honest the USA didnt 'liberate' Kuwait for it's peoples, it was to make sure Saddam didnt get his hands on the Saudi oil fields

is it not a case that we gotta follow the yanks in any war as theres so much trade/money changes hands between the two countries not too

that is just stupid and you know it

What a great politician plenty of good ideas.

A lady with a true a ideology.

Long live THATCHERISM.

But is ideology dead under Blair???

picture the scene
Raggie sitting in the cabinet room and wondering what to do about people paying rates and how hard it was for some

an aid says in the middle ages they used to have a poll tax

Raggie EUREKA i have got it we will charge everyone in the land poll tax simple
the rest is history turbulent but history
tallking of deaths Mr I

I wonder how may of Pinochet's victims she would be accountable for
remembering how close she was to him

Yep, we(Britain)had a direct involvement in Chile and sent thousands of troops over there

Clearly Maggie's support of Pinochet was in relationship to his support of the UK during the Falklands conflict, however: Pinochet was not supporting the UK because he was was being magnanimous towards us. For hundreds of years there has been a conflict between Argentina and Chile over the southern part of Patagonia in fact the two countries had been close to war many times in the 60's and 70's.

Pinochet was a dictator, a torturer, a fascist lunatic much the same as his opposite numbers over the border who disappeared thousands of his own people again exactly as the Argentines had done. In fact it's very common throughout South America.

During Argentina's military dictatorship of 1976 - 1983, in the region of 30'000 men, women and children disappeared without a trace. They are not alone in the dock.

'Dissaperared in other countries:

Bosnia/herzegovinia 27'000
Chile 4'000
Columbia 13'000
Zaire 55'000
El Savador 22'000
Guatemala 50'000
India 3'000
Indnesia 2'000
Iraq (pre war) 90'000
Mexico 2'000
Peru 4'000
Sri Lanka 21'000

And many more unaccounted in Libya, Cuba, Morocco, Russia, Turkey. (Amnesty International)

Someone somewhere is probably disappearing as we speak.

Pinochet is culpable as with the rest.

Thatcherism was a failure, her economic policies failed and if anyone can say otherwise they are talking out of their ring

Rubbish man.

The UK was a bit like Pools at the moment, failing in every department. When she took over she had to make some very tough decisions and closing failed industries that were costing millions a day was one of them.

Look up the political landscape and economy of this country 75- 79 and then come back to me.

What?..you mean Callaghan's legacy?

Streets paved with gold.

The country was on its arse when she got in but lets not forget:-

Two recessions (Lawson must take the blame, along with Lamont and Major, because he took the plaudits when selling of industry and cutting tax)

A massive deficit in the balance of payments
15% interest rates
Lamont ploughing billions into trying to keep the pound afloat before withdrawing from the ERM

I find it really ironic how all of Labours recent economic sucsess is down to the ground work by the Tories, when they have been out of power for nearly 10 years

The country was not just on its arse, it was bankrupt and we were in hock to the IMF to the tune of hundreds of billions. It was an impossibility to get back to economic success without paying off that debt and the first step was to stop it increasing by many millions every day. Hence we had no option but to endure morotoriums and the closure of failed businesses. The miners could not continue to demand 15% pay rises and thieve from the NCB hand over fist. We had the British motor industry churning out shite cars for wages which made the factories lose huge amounts of money which the taxpayer had to underwrite.




I agree that it was somewhat boom and bust but in order to have the bust you had first to have the boom. Average the pair out and you had a successful country.




During Maggie's reign when ?



During Maggie's reign when ? and incidentally, this oft quoted figure lasted all of 16 hours




A big mistake to shadow the German Mark but might I remind you that Maggie was not the PM at the time and hadn't been for two years.

The big problem Maggie had was the Poll Tax which I still believe that in principal is still the fairest system.

I watched the documentary, Tory!, Tory!, Tory! and they were advised very strongly about how bad an idea it would be to sell of the industries (no matter how badly run they were) by various fianancial institutions, but they carried on regardless

With the exception of telecoms, can anyone on here say services are any better under private owenership?, I can't, there is plenty of choice, but all at over inflated prices and shoddy service

Pinochet is culpable as with the rest.


and a great friend i think she called him