Pinderson

any suddgestions?

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She ruined the education system too.

You after me or something?

When she passes she will be remembered for one great achievement. Thats she managed to get up the nose of so many nasty, distasteful and vial people.

 

I hates Gordon Brown as our PM, but now I wouldn't wish him so much as a grazed knee.

 

The stupid thing is, many of those who verdantly spew their bile when Thatcher is mentioned have no memory or experience of her rule. They just do it because they think thats what is expected of them, or because their parents disliked her. What sad pathetic little people these are.

Your English and spelling are terrible.

Had a new boiler installed at the weekend...Tonight one of my downstairs radiators has started making a humming noise..Anything i can do myself before calling the plumber back...?

Regards

Probably air in the radiator. it is a common problem. Just get the system hot then CAREFULLY open the screw to bleed the radiator. You will need a cloth.

I doubt they would. I like as little as possible of my money to go to them, and I'm neither a Tory or a leftie. Do you want your inheritance to go to your kids, or to the government for 'redistribution'?

Yes........................................

Actually it wasn't, it was a cheap dig, and it surprised me that you congratulate it. Thinking for yourself seems to looked down upon in much of this thread - why people like this 'follow the sheep' mentality is beyond me.

 

Smith pointed out...

 

 

 

Sounds like a wise man. I bet he didn't sit around a dead community for 30 years complaining and doing nothing about it.

 

 

 

Basic economics is wasted on some people, I would have saved my [typing] breath.

 

 

 

Doesn't really say much about the great British people does it?

 

The human race wouldn't have made it this far if our ancestors didn't move on when resources no longer were worthwhile.

We should all take example from our beloved tory leaders and learn how to be millionaires at birth.

I would respect our beloved leaders if they gave up all their inherited wealth and began competing with us on an even playing field. Tories will never do this . They dare not as they would lose.

Can any one name one good or lasting thing she did while in power that was to the benefit of the country?

She got sacked! Everyone loved her for that!:love:

:huh:Are there any?

There was no coal left to sustain the industry!!.........Look at how were are now with petrol, Bp making 400billion , and us barely able to afford to drive. Sorry off topic.......

And one flew over the cuckoos nest:loopy:

Well I have to disagree. My dad hated Scargill and would have agreed with some of your comments about some getting away with doing as little as possible but he was right behind the 84 miners strike as were most of his mates.They saw it as the tories trying to grind down the working man.

Tell your dad from me that he was absolutely right.

Do you really have nothing better to add to this thread than snide one-liners and insults?

I am well educated and thus could extend my insults to two lines, but I thought that it may be a little beyond your comprehension.

Do some of you really think it would have been better if we'd continued with the union dominance of British industry that we'd had in the 70s? Our car industry was destroyed by the unions, in no small measure they brought about the demise of the mining industry (not steel which actually continued to have rising outputs long after Thatcher's government).

 

Various PMs Conservative and Labour had failed to control the unions. For those who remember the 70s, we had the 3 day week, power cuts, uncollected rubbish on the streets, unburied bodies, days when even the tabloids weren't printed, because the unions were strangling the country through their own mixture of financial greed and utterly misguided militant left wing policies. Any talk of efficiencies or even labour saving technology would lead to walk-outs, because some people hadn’t learned from the Luddites, and some still haven’t to this day.

 

Even many in the Labour party (the sensible ones anyway) acknowledged that without union reform Britain was doomed, and the economic prosperity we’ve had for more than two decades up to current recession would not have happened were it not for Thatcher’s actions in stamping down the unions. People upset about the mining industry now should consider how we’d be if we had none of our industries left functioning, as would have been the case if the unions had not been controlled.

 

She put property ownership within reach of people who could not have dreamed before of the financial security of being home owners.

She supported Reagan in ending the Cold War, perhaps not a positive achievement to many of the communists and hard line socialists who frequent this forum and had greater sympathies for the Soviet system, but a great contribution to world history all the same.

She also fought hard to win us much better financial deals with the EU than they wanted to give us, saving many billions over the coming years.

 

She is indeed reviled by the people of some northern cities who selfishly refuse to look at the greater needs of the country over the needs of their industry, but it’s good to know that she’s still adored in the rest of England and in most towns people doff their cap to her car when she passes. It’s also common for her to receive standing ovations of clapping when she leaves a restaurant or theatre to this day by the adoring public. I like to reflect on the support and public adoration she continues to receive in the South, because most people have the sense to appreciate her tenure as PM and remind her of that. Some bitter, hateful, small-minded northerners aside, that is.

 

I read this somewhere, can’t remember where:

“In the first half of the 20th century, we had Winston Churchill and Lloyd George. In the second half of the century, there was Margaret Thatcher alone”.

Do you really think that people are going to waste their time reading all that rubbish?

July 2011, Thatcher was named the most competent British Prime Minister of the past 30 years in an Ipsos Mori poll

It actually was the most competent FEMALE British PM.

It seems that way.

 

I'm yet to read comments written on here by by a Tory describing their hatred for other people, but the lefties spew their vitriolic hatred at every opportunity - then call Conservatives the 'Nasty party'. Funny old world.

"Funny old world".................

As demonstrated on this forum on a regular basis, the hatred of some of the members on here to anything conservative is that deep that they would no doubt put a brick through our windows if they knew were we lived.

Don't caravans have toughened glass?

I think that wishing someone dead is a disgraceful thing to say, particularly as you are a moderator. You should know better!

Would it have been wrong to wish for Hitlers death?

Is that why the power is off??

:hihi::hihi:.....or is it really off?

Background is irrelevant. I'm saying that the strength of feeling is still strong and I believe that people who didn't fully agree with the strikes, but went on strike anyway, wouldn't make their disagreement clear even to this day.

Why do you think that?

I shall be very distraught about the passing of Thatcher unless I am allowed to pull the trigger.

Well, I'd rather be wrongly labelled an idiot than make an infantile post accusing somebody else of the same for no good reason.

You take the experience of being labelled an idiot well within your stride. It is evident that you are accustomed to it.

I can remember the euphoria back in '89 when John Major ousted the witch, was like Wednesday winning the FA Cup!

Dream on:hihi:

Scargill has everything to do with it. You can blame Lady Thatcher all you like, but the downsizing of the coal industry became the destruction of the coal industry at his hand, not hers.

I must hand it to you. You indeed are an idiot.

I seem to remember that the unions did a lot of posturing and made comments such as "this is the price of coal" when there was an accident. Scargill was good at it.........never heard him mention anything about safety in mines etc etc tho' Wonder why.

There are none so deaf as they who refuse to hear.

Maybe some of us have to work!

 

Until you realise what Scargills motives were, and how much he was being paid whilst the miners were on strike, how much he donated to their cause (zip) how much his grace and favour perks added up to, how many visits to his "holiday home" in Spain he had during that time. You'll never appreciate what the strikes were all about.

What has Scargill got to do with it?

I suggest that if you wish to talk about him, you start your own thread!

Kindest regards.

I loved the banner at the end:

"Give Youth a Future"................even more pertinent now.

Thatcher the Snatcher ....still destroying the aspirations of working and middle class youth.......30 years on!