Baroness Thatcher has died.

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mattyg said:
So you'd be happy for everyone who doesn't agree with YOUR beliefs to die.

Haven't we been to war over something similar fairly recently
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The world would probably be a quieter place? :p.

No, I don't want everyone who disagree's with me to die nor do I wish death upon people, as I've said :o.
 
shifty_uk said:
Indeed.

My great grandfather was a miner - I don't see her as a figure of hate. She privatised a dying industry, people need to get over it!

Societies uneducated need to think for themselves before spouting rubbish because an opinion has been passed down from generation to generation.
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"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
 
Jason2 said:
The mines weren't making a profit!!! They were a strain on the economy, for we were paying to effectively keep them open, all while the miners wanted a pay rise. She made the right decision. Of course everyone's not gonna like it. That's how life works. You make decisions which benefit the whole of society and not just one particular set of people.

Question, were you even around when she was?
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It didn't benefit the whole of society, far from it. The mines weren't making a profit because of the way they were being ran, this could have been changed but no instead she just closed them all as it was the easiest short term option.

Yes I was around, and I witnessed the effect it had.
 
Combat squirrel said:
RIP Baroness Thatcher, you were a remarkable woman, your strength helped get the UK through dark times.

I do however fear that today’s people, and a complete lack of knowledge of ALL the details of the Thatcher government, along with a somewhat mob mentality to jump on bandwagons/be 'fashionable', will have leave some people having a different view of her – those with a different view tend to know very little about all she did. She of course made some unpopular choices, but the majority of her leadership she remained focused and got what needed to be done – done, so all credit to her. I’ll sit back and enjoy the irony as people have enjoyed easier lives (up until the recession – hell even during the recession) because of her, yet people hate her for no other reason than…….because someone else didn't like her.

RIP Baroness Thatcher

PS: I feel embarrassed as a human, people are celebrating the death of another human, disgusting and those that are should be ashamed of themselves.
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Great post. Most opinionated morons can't tell you the first thing about politics but hey, everyone hates <insert name here> with a passion because everyone else does. Or the red t

She was a GREAT leader that was faced with tough decisions which she made with no regard to uneducated public opinion. She left the UK a much better and stronger country than she found it.
 
Thanks to Thatcher and her government at the time for introducing the YTS scheme.

The YTS got me my first job and 25 years later I am still with the same people working.

No bad words from me, only a big thank you :)
 
Ok, so you don't agree with everything she did. Fine, you're entitled to your own opinion of course.

But to be openly happy and glad, and to go out of your way to celebrate a death?

Disgusting.
 
Given how quickly the thread is moving, I'm sure the mods are doing their best, they might have made a mistake though CaNsA, don't think too much of it :).
 
Tummy said:
Given how quickly the thread is moving, I'm sure the mods are doing their best, they might have made a mistake though CaNsA, don't think too much of it :).
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Yeah I do not envy the mods their job on days like this.
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...grave-i-want-her-to-go-on-and-on-8143089.html

Personally, I dread Thatcher’s death. It will be a nightmarish blend of the hysteria that followed Princess Diana’s tragic accident and a month-long political broadcast for the Conservative Party. “She put the ‘great’ back in Great Britain,” our impartial media will lecture us; those who dissent will either be purged from the airwaves or demonised as spiteful lefties. Senior Labour politicians will feel obliged to join in the serenading of a PM who, in many cases, laid waste to the communities they represent. I hope she goes on and on.
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Jason2 said:
"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
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'You have shown bravery equal to those who died fighting Voldemort at the height of his powers. You have shouldered a grown wizard's burden and found yourself equal to it' Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.
 
"Thatcher killed Mining??"

Well did she??

Without looking at the dates along the bottom, Pick out the point where "Thatcher destroyed the Mining industry"

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