Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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[J. J.]

Baroness Thatcher has just died.  Fox 

RIP.  She changed the world. 

[Hatman 🍁]

Wow. So, what's the mood in the UK? Lots of people happy?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Jesus H. Christos... a lot of angst gonna be expressed (most of which I'll personally find tacky, even if I disagreed with her policies)... I'm going to take a step back.

[RogueBeaver]

RIP. .

[Tender Branson]

For those who don't know what he's talking about:

Ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.

Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."

Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.

Baroness Thatcher, born Margaret Roberts, became the Conservative MP for Finchley, north London in 1959, retiring from the Commons in 1992.

Having been education secretary, she successfully challenged former prime minister Edward Heath for her party's leadership in 1975.

She won general elections in 1979, 1983 and 1987.

Baroness Thatcher's government privatised several state-owned industries. She was also in power when the UK went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22067155

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

This thread is going to be better than Jesse Helms and Ted Kennedy threads.

And yes, RIP.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

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!

[afleitch]

I will be moderating this thread HEAVILY. Be warned.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I will be moderating this thread HEAVILY. Be warned.

You damn well better... a lot people without much class will be venting.

[afleitch]

Al's title and Stepney's outrage have been amended with no infractions or reporting of posts. But everyone should be on high alert from his point on

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I was no fan of her but my sympathies goes to family and supporters.

[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.

[Franzl]

RIP to impressive woman, however one feels about her.

[Tender Branson]

I was no fan of her but my sympathies goes to family and supporters.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

RIP to impressive woman, however one feels about her.

Exactly, there was a lot ... and I mean a lot, that I disagreed with but purely from a perspective of political history - the first woman party leader, opposition leader, prime minister and the longest serving leader of the 20th Century. She re-made her party and one can say (good or bad) her country.

People should show some decency, dignity and respect. Simple as that.

[Leftbehind]

I agree with Al.

[stepney]

I agree with Al.

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

[Leftbehind]

Don't worry I wish you the exact same.

[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.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Thread is already quite promising.

[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?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

RIP to impressive woman, however one feels about her.

[afleitch]

Margaret Thatcher was not a monster. Monsters are made and created by people to create a crude caricature of their own fears, angers and vices and that was true of Margaret Thatcher. You can disagree with her and you can disagree with the direction in which she took this country but for many she was a person on to which they could direct their own anger. People had a very tough time in the 1980’s because of what her government did, people suffered, people lost and had to pick themselves up my own family included, but many people had a tough existence because they didn’t strive to better themselves when opportunities arose. I came from a family and a town of miners and steelworkers. But come the end of the 20th Century the mining stopped and the steel working stopped and for some their whole world ended. I fully understand it. It must have felt the same for my family and my town at end of the 19th Century when the cotton mills stopped because that was all they knew or for my family at the end of the 18th Century when they were thrown out of their farmland. But you pick yourselves up and you move on and adjust to the new economy because it will always change; that is the capitalist system. And workers have always responded to those demands; they’ve been smart enough to do that. My family did that and had that same spirit, yet some of my neighbours did not. You cannot blame that one woman thirty years later if you still have not adjusted and re-skilled to meet the demands of the economy and missed the opportunities because you pine for a past that really wasn’t as idealistic and as community spirited as you feel it was. That is my address to those who are of a certain age but it’s not really appropriate on this board.

For those on this board who are not of that age, then you don’t really have the right to ‘claim’ her, either as a great woman or as a monster. It wasn’t your life or your existence.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]