As long as it's in good humour and doesn't offensively mock or celebrate the fact that someone has died.
Baroness Thatcher has died.
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As long as it's in good humour and doesn't offensively mock or celebrate the fact that someone has died.
Having read a lot of what has been said in this thread I feel it's apt to say what I feel about her without being an ass about it. I spoke my mind about Thatcher when she was alive. I lived though those Thatcher years. I will not now stop saying the things that I've always said simply because she is now dead. My views and opinions did not change the moment her heart stopped beating. However, I'm not retarded enough to make insensitive comments.
My comments would be about how I thought some of her policies and decisions were wrong and the damaging effects they had on millions of people in the UK. People like me and my family and my community. I would also say that some of her decisions and policies were good. She introduced the 'Right to Buy' act helping millions of people own their own homes for the first time. She also did a great job handling the Falklands crisis. But on balance I saw that she did more harm than good when equated to my life and the community where I grew up. High unemployment, punitive tax laws and welfare schemes that hit the poor hard. The destruction of an industry that was the heart and soul of my local economy. The failure to replace and rebuild once those industries were destroyed.
People who lived through the Thatcher years are going to base their views on her on how good or bad things were for them at that time. One thing about Thatcher nobody can deny is that she was very divisive. Nothing is going to change that fact. There will always be people who loved her and there will always be people who hated her. But just because she is dead, that isn't an excuse for those who hated her to fall silent. A little tact and thoughtfulness though will help.
My comments would be about how I thought some of her policies and decisions were wrong and the damaging effects they had on millions of people in the UK. People like me and my family and my community. I would also say that some of her decisions and policies were good. She introduced the 'Right to Buy' act helping millions of people own their own homes for the first time. She also did a great job handling the Falklands crisis. But on balance I saw that she did more harm than good when equated to my life and the community where I grew up. High unemployment, punitive tax laws and welfare schemes that hit the poor hard. The destruction of an industry that was the heart and soul of my local economy. The failure to replace and rebuild once those industries were destroyed.
People who lived through the Thatcher years are going to base their views on her on how good or bad things were for them at that time. One thing about Thatcher nobody can deny is that she was very divisive. Nothing is going to change that fact. There will always be people who loved her and there will always be people who hated her. But just because she is dead, that isn't an excuse for those who hated her to fall silent. A little tact and thoughtfulness though will help.
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There was a bloke on BBC news from some mining town saying he's happy. The reporter said to him "A lot of people say the unions had too much power back then and she was right to take them on" and his reply was "No I don't agree with that, the union are just there to protect your jobs".
Just shows how delusional some of these people are. Back then, the unions were pretty much running the country. Protecting people's jobs is one things, but they were effectively running the public sector.
I work in the public sector now and they are still very powerful. The management can't make any change without their blessing, no matter how small and it's almost impossible to sack anyone.
Just shows how delusional some of these people are. Back then, the unions were pretty much running the country. Protecting people's jobs is one things, but they were effectively running the public sector.
I work in the public sector now and they are still very powerful. The management can't make any change without their blessing, no matter how small and it's almost impossible to sack anyone.
Right to buy was a deliberate policy to entice working people into a life of debt slavery so that they could be pushed around more easily.
They sold off billions of pounds worth of state owned assets at knock down prices.
Now we have a severe shortage of social housing.
They sold off billions of pounds worth of state owned assets at knock down prices.
Now we have a severe shortage of social housing.
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I made a joke about needing a bigger dance floor at her funeral. Is that out of order?
Would such a joke as above be OK? or
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She actually wanted to scrap the concept of a local tax altogether (councils would be subsidized by government) but was told she had to have a tax that linked the voter to the council they voted for.
But the poll tax was fair though, it said that the amount a house pays should be proportional to the amount the household costs the council. The value of your house (like Council House which we have now) has no bearing on how much it costs the council to pick up your rubbish, or how many pot holes you may help to create.
Rip, if her government were bought forward to today we wouldn't have millions of slackers sitting watching Jeremy Kyle on 50 inch plasmas from my hard earned tax.....
The haters here in general were not even caring about politics and policy's as still in nappies, even I was way too young to care and I'm 42
So to the above haters who are under 40, it's just pure distasteful lack of respect... I suggest you unplug the computer and think about how fragile life is, and how little flukester wishes you were not a member of it
The haters here in general were not even caring about politics and policy's as still in nappies, even I was way too young to care and I'm 42
So to the above haters who are under 40, it's just pure distasteful lack of respect... I suggest you unplug the computer and think about how fragile life is, and how little flukester wishes you were not a member of it
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Just trying to figure out what is and what isnt allowed. Seems a lot of what was allowed in the Amy Winehouse thread is too far for this thread, based off the personal opinions of a select few / mods.
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From County Durham, grandfather and his Father miners, dependant on council housing etc, so reasons enough to dislike, or worse, however I feel none of that. Proud of her and all the forces involved in projecting Britain as a real power over the Falklands.
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
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It got deleted so surely you can work that one out for yourself?
Seems everything is being deleted by one person only.
No jokes at all allowed, no black humour allowed.
lol at the stupid everyone unemployed is a slacker and has a 50" Plasma comment....why don't we delete these stupid posts too?
And by the way, there were millions unemployed during her term...
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No, they allowed millions of working class people the opportunity to own their homes.
The fact that governments since then have built no homes to replace them is hardly Thatchers fault is it?
We know Burnsey has no Black SOH, remember the Oscar Pistorius thread, he was having an apoplectic fit in that one...
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