Baroness Thatcher has died.

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Conscript said:
Pretty much echoes my position. There's very little love for her from my parents, who also suffered a lot of financial hardship during that time. We live in the south east too, just to refute the idea that opinions on Thatcher depend on region.
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It was mainly the Poll Tax debacle which split the north from the south in terms of politics; A lot of the north went to the red side post Poll Tax.

nkata said:
I think the three day week was actually Ted Heath in 1973/4 almost a decade earlier during another miners dispute.

I was a piece worker at the time, turning out cam blanks on a lathe, so we just upped the work rate and earned nearly as much in three days as we did in five.
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You're right, the 3 day miner days were brought in under Heath and not Thatcher.
 
elmarko said:
I hated her policies, not the person.

Why? - deregulation of our financial sector & furthering neoliberal economic policies which further expanded the poverty gap - with the added problem of selling off our council housing stock (all of which we are paying for now).

Short term gain for long term pain.
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Banning the closed shop.
Requiring postal ballots for strike action.

Neither of which have been repealed or are likely to be.

Deregulation of the financial sector at that time has had huge financial benefits for the country overall. It was the light touch controls by the FSA and BofE that failed and no government since Thatcher repealed any of the deregulation.
 
elmarko said:
I hated her policies, not the person.

Oh I agree, but I don't think you need to experience something first hard to disagree with it either.

I'm not experiencing the current changes to our benefit system at all (as I don't claim anything) - but I'm strongly against many of the changes to them.
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I think there is a marked difference between not agreeing with policies and hating someone that had no real influence on your life as you weren't even born yet.

Heck there have been loads of evil murdering dictators that have lived and I don't hate them as they had no effect on my life yet I very strongly disagreed with what they did.
 
sandy10 said:
Bloody hell, a flippant, although topical comment pertaining to milk, or lack thereof, gets some of you irked
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Thats all it would have taken :dunno: for you to say it was a flippant comment...Its quite obvious that there are large numbers of people who are so ridiculous as to make such comments legitimately.
 
nkata said:
Yes I went on protests as a student against her as education secretary on the milk thing

If you lived in the seventies and suffered the last throes of the Callaghan labour government you would realise what an absolute mess she had to deal with.

No she did not cut public spending during her terms in office.

Compared to Blair she was honest with the electorate and you cannot say that you did not know what you would get voting for Maggie.

Yes a few mistakes, but on the whole we have had an awful lot worse since and before. We could have had Michael Foot.

She was PM for eleven years, and the UK did fairly well during that time.
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Yep good post, the country was in a complete mess when she came to power (thanks again Labour). She made a few mistakes, but the things she achieved out weighed those shortcomings.

I'm pretty sure the majority of people who are spewing hate, have almost no idea at all why they are doing it.
 
bigjohnsonrichard said:
Thats all it would have taken :dunno: for you to say it was a flippant comment...Its quite obvious that there are large numbers of people who are so ridiculous as to make such comments legitimately.
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Do you honestly think someone in their right mind would blame the Prime Minister - to wit Mrs M Thatcher - for their calcium deficiency as a child, owing to her removing the free 1/4 pint bottle of milk from their daily diet.
 
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sandy10 said:
Do you honestly think someone in their right mind would blame the Prime Minister - to wit Mrs M Thatcher - for their calcium deficiency as a child, owing to her removing the free 1/4 pint bottle of milk from their daily diet.
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Yes I do. The amount of hatred for the women is amazing. People believe the most ridiculous things. Some of the things ive read today and heard over the years are just hilarious.

So yes, thats why I asked you if you were serious or not :dunno:
 
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