Looks like your version of Julius Caeser is on tonight...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hy18h

Set the Sky Plus.....

Mr Groovy may enjoy this one as well...


(Ding dong the witch is dead....)

the country wouldnt be in the fooking state it is now if she was still in charge. The bankers would have been put in their place, knife crime would be dealt with, scroungers would be sorted out..................
Instead we have Mr Bown, given the choice I know what I wold have !!

The only Prime Minister in my lifetime who has had a set of balls, she was the one who brought the armed forces pay up from being tret like a 2nd class citizen to that of a normal working mans.

And as already quoted this country wouldn't be in the crap state it's in now with her in charge.

Mr's T & the Tories gave the bankers the green light to do whatever they wanted back in 1987 with the deregulation of the banking system and successive Tory & Labour governments carried the baton

And of course we had no Peter Owen types under the Tories, did we?

Revisionist clapfookingcnutingtrap once again, or did you live in an alternate Hartlepool back in the 80's and early 90's? to the one 99% of the people on here knew??

I'm with Talbot on this. Have you all got crystal balls like? If she was running the country now it will have gone to the dogs as she is senile!

we could have laws passed to make it compulsory to put the kettle in the fridge and stuff!!!

Maggie Thatcher was a disaster for this country . . . unless you were rich.

I wasn't rich.

Or in the armed forces.

Oh how some people yearn for the Beamish Museum days.

I posted this on another forum some time ago. Enjy the memories.........................

Perhaps you should all cover yourselves in coal, take your tin baths with you. All do exactly as you union leaders tell you to do without thought for the hardship you and your families will face. You could all remember how you used to live in long rows of faceless terrace houses on poor money treating yourselves to a chinese takeaway on a friday evening.....
Or you could perhaps look at how, largely because of thatcher you have moved on, going out for a meal is a regular occurence, you financial shakles have been removed, you are now responsible for your disposable income, you are able to persue a career away from coal ridden tunnels, you might even go for a drive in one of your cars.

God bless you Mrs Thatch, you allowed us to move on.........

It also makes me both laugh and get annoyed that most people who slag her (a coal mining term I think) are too young to remember her and merely join in the student anarchic bollocks most of us grow out of.

Haven't we covered all this before, more recently than some of us care to remember?

Concurring.

Shut up, Obafemi

I DJ'd an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Miners Strike in Worksop. They were watching old newsreel of arrests and shouting 'gerrof 'im' even though they knew the whole thing was history. I tried to shut down at 11pm, as I was contracted to do. They said they would kick my head in. They asked if I was Thatcherite. I told them yes. They scratched their drink addled heads and wondered who had booked me. I fooked off.

Mining was always a foul industry. I have to ask, who wants their kids down a hole getting filthy??

I like that, good point.... most of the Dave Sparts who mouth the platitudes are public payroll philosophers.

Margaret was wonderful! (and still shagable)

Thatch, like most Prime Ministers, did some good and some bad.

Must admit, whilst I had some sympathy for the miners, the argument about jobs down the pit for the next generation was ridiculous.
Who would seriously want their kids to spend their working lives down a dirty hole in the ground?

I recently watched a report on the demise of social clubs in former mining villages. the chairman of one club, a Bobby Thompson clone, was bemoaning the fact that 'young uns' were travelling to the nearest towns for thei nights out and giving the clubs a miss, .." they could be coming to the club for a night out with their girlfriends, we have darts, bingo, snooker, a crib league, dominoes and more besides" ... someone really should take him aside and explain things to him.

Isn't the 25th anniversary this year......?

I wonder if her kids are watching it

If she wasn't sitting in a pile of her own piss, she would be proud of them , one is a bounder and the other a bigger bounder

Thatcher was no mug in that respect, get the filth and the armed forces on side and you are quids in

The " filth "Talbot you little cawkney wannabe gangster you .

Here is some more cockernee slang for you

Thick as mince and as bright as midnight

Watched "Margaret" last night. It was absolutely fantastic, Lindsay Duncan is just as brilliant in it as she was in Rome. If you haven't watched it, that's good as well. The whole programme was actually just the best bits taken from the "West Wing", there are a lot of elements in there from that series like weighing up the numbers and persuading the MPs to vote for her.

I also watched "Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley" - Andrea Riseborough has the better intepretation of Thatcher's distinctive accent, and her mannerisms etc, "The Long Walk" was very witty.

I had to laugh when the young up and coming Tory chemist Margaret Roberts loses the election in Dartford and Dennis Thatcher comforts her with the line:

"We always knew winning Dartford was going to be a BRIDGE TOO FAR !"

The best depiction of Mags was undoubtedly by Patricia Hodge in 'The Falklands Play' . She not only got the voice damn near perfect, she was spot on with the facial expressions and attitudes too.

How do you spell necrofilia, necrofillia, necrophyllia okay then, shagging the dead?

I've never seen a fit looking 84 year old either

is Thatcher a GILF then

oi

Men in Blackhall used to live in terraced houses( I wouldnt say faceless, do you mean lacking garden gnomes? the first step to being a tory) and earned the equivalent of £400 today thus not needing to send their wives out to work on the checkout at Asda.(very liberating that).

84/85 miners strike was a defining moment and those of left wing persuasion lost, but they are been proved right now, the country is going down the tubes , capitalism is in meltdown, if the tories had been defeated this country and its people would bo became more european in its outlook , instead of racist, nationalist, insecure , jealouse, dog eat dog , stressed out , back stabbing bast*rds.

Hang on, last time I looked we'd had a Labour goverment for the last 12 years. How can tthe tories be blaimed for Brown and Bliar's follies?

Jim Callaghan was the biggest anti-European ever. He single handedly delayed the march towards the Euro by at least five years.

Anyway. I've slowly come to the conclusion that the European Union is a bag of shite. It's gone so far past its remit it will need a spaceship to get back. And that doesn't mean I've suddenly become UKIP. The EEC reached all its original objectives fifteen years ago and that was great, but they couldn't leave it at that could they.

That Thatcher woman was mad. All the successful politicians are cos you can't have a sense of perspective and succeed in that game but she was madder than the rest of them.

I know its abit goerdie biased but it sort of sums up the eighties... 4 million unemployed etc. etc.
So where will everyone go now the whole world is fooked???

But don't worry Obama will save us...

We had no way of staying afloat,
We had to leave on a ferryboat.
Economic refugees,
On the run to Germany.
We had the back of Maggie's hand,
Times were tough in Geordieland.
We got wor tools and working gear
And humped it all from Newcastle to here.

Why aye man.
Why aye, why aye man.
Why aye man,
Why aye, why aye man.
Why aye man.
Why aye, why aye man.
Why aye man,
Why aye, why aye man.

We're nomad tribes, travelling boys,
In the dust and dirt and the racket and the noise.
Drills and hammers, diggers and picks,
Mixing concrete, laying bricks.
There's English, Irish, Scots, the lot.
United Nations what we got.
Brickies, chippies, every trade.
German building, British made.

Why aye man.
Why aye, why aye man.
Why aye man,
Why aye, why aye man.
Why aye man.
Why aye, why aye man.
Why aye man,
Why aye, why aye man.

Nay more work on Maggie's farm.
Haddaway down the autobahn.
Mine's a Portakabin bed,
Or a bunk in a Nissen hut instead.

There's plenty Deutschmarks here to earn.
And German tarts are wunderschön.
German beer is chemical free.
Germany's alright with me.
Sometimes I miss my river Tyne,
But you're my pretty fräulein.
Tonight we'll drink the old town dry,
Keep wor spirit levels high.

Why aye man.
Why aye, why aye man.
Why aye man,
Why aye, why aye man.
Why aye man.
Why aye, why aye man.
Why aye man,
Why aye, why aye man.

Sometimes I miss my river Tyne,
But you're my pretty fräulein.
Tonight we'll drink the old town dry,
Keep wor spirit levels high.

Sometimes I miss my river Tyne,
But you're my pretty fräulein.
Tonight we'll drink the old town dry,
Keep wor spirit levels high.

Mark Knopfler is another of those rich socialists who couldn't wait to get the hell out of the area he grew up in. I've got good stuff to say about the bloke but not in terms of politics.

Great song that - it was used as the closing theme to the 3rd Series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.