Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

[stepney]

You're a vile pathetic little man, Al, and I hope you yourself die slowly and painfully as you plainly deserve. I'm not a Thatcherite by any stretch, but as far as I know no-one on my side was so low when Wilson or Callaghan died.

Already starting!

I might pray in aid that a thread entitled "Ding dong the witch is dead" might be considered reasonable provocation.

[stepney]

I agree with Al.

Then the same to you. Don't be so ing vile, eh?

[stepney]

Don't worry I wish you the exact same.

For having the temerity to criticise you sharing Al's glee over the death of an frail old woman? Wish me what you like; I don't deserve it, you plainly do.

[stepney]

Haha the victim because you're wished back what you wish on others? I'll be the judge on what you deserve, thanks.

Frail old woman - such a sh**tty defence. Everyone becomes frail in age, it doesn't cancel out the heartless acts carried out in earlier life they've yet to pay for.  

"Heartless acts" - for Christ's sake. How vile do you have to be? Does it really have to be said "I know, how about no-one on here rubs their hands with joy over an old woman dying?"

I wasn’t on this place when Jim Callaghan or Michael Foot died, but I’m going to make a wild guess there were no Tories on here salivating and cheering about it. A bit of the same from our left-wing posters over the death of Margaret Thatcher - or any human being - might just be appreciated and might just be appropriate. 99% of our left posters have managed it.

As for you sneering I'm a Thatcherite really because I've the temerity to call out those who laugh at an old woman dying - believe what you will, makes no odds does it, you reprehensible little prick?

[stepney]

I would like not to, but I cannot help myself.

Well, she finally contributes personally to her beloved health-care and pension cuts.

Nicest thing I can say, really.

No it isn't, is it?

If you can't say something nice, as the old saying goes, don't say nowt.

[stepney]

If you can't say something nice, as the old saying goes, don't say nowt.

What do you think the Lady would have said about that rule in her lifetime? Was that her style, you think?

Well, now, I don't know. But when Lord Wilson died - the biggest buggerer-up of Britain in Mrs T's lifetime, if you hold to a right-wing view of the world, as Lady Thatcher plainly did - did "the Lady" issue any statement along the lines of "Ha ha, that socialist old git's dead" in the manner of our dear Mr Ephraim? I suspect not.

Ditto her reaction to the deaths of Lord Callaghan, Michael Foot, or indeed Lord Attlee who died while she was a prominent front-bencher, but who can, in the Thatcherite view of things, can be held largely responsible for the way the post-1945 settlement turned out, even if he himself would have been largely dismayed by the way it turned out.

I don't have Mrs Thatcher's statements to hand, but I'm going to make a broad guess she didn't react to anyone's death with undisguised glee.

[stepney]

Whether people agree or disagree about whether Thatcher was a good thing for Britain, it's objective fact that her policies threw thousands of Britons into permanent poverty and ruined entire communities.

Eh, no, it plainly isn't. Therein the ructions.