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Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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08/04/2013 14:03
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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Her passing will certainly polarise opinion. Very sad
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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Yes.... Love her or loathe her, nobody can deny that she was a political giant and deserves her place in history How many other PMs have had a film made about them? - not many, I suspect
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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How many other PMs have had a film made about them? - not many, I suspect Richard Nixon, Tony Blair & JFK to name a few....
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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Love her or loathe her, nobody can deny that she was a political giant and deserves her place in history
How many other PMs have had a film made about them? - not many, I suspect I'll tell you who else deserves a place in history and has a load of films about them - Hitler. Not, of course, that I'm trying to imply that Hitler was anywhere near as bad as Maggie
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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How many other PMs have had a film made about them? - not many, I suspect Richard Nixon, Tony Blair & JFK to name a few.... Were they all PM?
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How many other PMs have had a film made about them? - not many, I suspect Richard Nixon, Tony Blair & JFK to name a few.... I saw one about the life of John Major? Well the actor had a John Major mask on and not a lot else...
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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How many other PMs have had a film made about them? - not many, I suspect Richard Nixon, Tony Blair & JFK to name a few.... I think you'll find JFK and Richard Nixon were American? And Presidents. So 1 out of 3...
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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Love her or loathe her, nobody can deny that she was a political giant and deserves her place in history
Like Hitler
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Party tonight! Hope the fireworks I've had for the last 4 years still work. I can't get that wizard of Oz tune out of my head..... " Hey ho the witch is dead"
Too soon? Probably the most uneducated post I've read today! I think you'll find it's "Ding Dong the witch is dead"
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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With a spirit of open mindedness can anyone enlighten me to a good thing that She did. something that was good for the nation and that has had a lasting legacy for us all to this day?
My political hero gave us, The NHS (Free Healthcare for all), Workers rights (Rights to paid Holidays, sick pay, rest breaks at work & the introduction of pensions for workers) The welfare state, Rights for women & children, The right to free education for ALL children, free college education and university scholarships. Oh yes and he provided FREE MILK FOR ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Much of this fellows leadership legacy is lasting to this day. This despite efforts to destroy them by the style over substance mp's whome inhabit Parliament today. Maggie was one of the first of those and Blaire was much the same.
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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Party tonight! Hope the fireworks I've had for the last 4 years still work. I can't get that wizard of Oz tune out of my head..... " Hey ho the witch is dead"
Too soon? Probably the most uneducated post I've read today! I think you'll find it's "Ding Dong the witch is dead" Excellent. Cheers. Its been a while since I've seen the film. The joke I had earlier makes sense now!
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08/04/2013 15:29
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Aside from Blair, I'm pretty sure that Lady Thatcher would have been content to be mentioned in the same breath as other film PMs I'm sure she wouldn't have minded being mentioned in the same breath as Blair. What greater tribute can there be than to see your enemies become like you? However, to compare her to Hitler is distasteful and disrespectful. Indeed, and I apologise to Mrs Hitler and all the little Hitlers.
Dear monos, a secret truth.
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Michael Sheen played Blair twice (and is rumoured to be up for a third), but only one of these (The Deal) was actually about Blair (the other being The Queen)
Already made the third = The special relationship 2010
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The beeb did a whole series about Lloyd George. I remember the theme music being superb.
I was not a fan of Mrs T, but it does seem odd to 'celebrate' her death when that death won't change anything.
Is there anyone who feels that something positive comes out of her death. Is it felt to achieve some 'justice' (in the sense that the death of Pol Pot might be considered to) perhaps for those who died when the Belgrano sank? Is it just that it makes me happy she's dead because I didn't like her?
I'm in the indifferent camp. For me, it does not change any aspect of what she did.
Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing? (John 7:51)
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08/04/2013 15:52
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With a spirit of open mindedness can anyone enlighten me to a good thing that She did. something that was good for the nation and that has had a lasting legacy for us all to this day?
She helped develop soft scope ice cream!!!
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She helped to develop the modern worker,
ie your on your own chap and the union won't be able to do anything about it.
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Re: Maggie Thatchier dead !!
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08/04/2013 16:22
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My political hero gave us, The NHS (Free Healthcare for all), Workers rights (Rights to paid Holidays, sick pay, rest breaks at work & the introduction of pensions for workers) The welfare state, Rights for women & children, The right to free education for ALL children, free college education and university scholarships. Oh yes and he provided FREE MILK FOR ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Unless I am going completely senile everything in the above list COSTS MONEY, which contrary to the belief of every Labour government that ever was elected had to come from somewhere. I am no Maggie-lover, but until she went a bit loony towards the end of her third term she was the most effective PM we have had in my lifetime. I am old enough to remember the ghastly days of Wilson and Callaghan who bankrupted the country, Blair who was just a useless grinning PR machine whilst the country was being bankrupted in the background without his knowledge, and last but not least Gordon Brown - the worst chancellor of the exchequer in my living memory, and the worst PM in my living memory. When Blair won in 1997 the British economy was in the best state it had been in for 30 years (thanks to Kenneth Clarke), and unfortunately the country has been in a steady tailspin since then. I confess that I vote Tory, but that is not because I am a hang-em and flog-em righty - I am just afraid of the altenative. God help us all if Ed Balls ever gets the keys to the safe
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08/04/2013 16:56
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Thatcher state funeral to be privatised
In keeping with the great lady's legacy, Margaret Thatcher's state funeral should be funded and managed by the private sector to offer the best value and choice for end users and other stakeholders.
The undersigned believe that the legacy of the former PM deserves nothing less and that offering this unique opportunity is an ideal way to cut government expense and further prove the merits of liberalised economics Baroness Thatcher spearheaded.
She pioneered and firmly believed that the state should play a minimal part in people lives, please give her what she would have wanted.
I actually met her once in 1985 when I worked in the City, totally disliked her from that point on. (I was 20 and had yet to form a real political opinion,) I felt so strongly about her after this that I resigned from the Young Conservatives. While I refuse to take joy in the death of any human being, I don't feel sorry that she has shuffled her mortal coil.
She simply was fortunate enough to be PM as the revenue from North Sea oil started flowing and then sold off the "family silver" to her mates. We wasted billions in dole payments, the inner cities were wracked by riots, she led us from a manufacturing economy to a service one, thus pre-empting the current banking finance (she loosened financial constraints). When I first lived in Dubai in 1976-77 I was shocked to see real beggars on the streets, little did I know I would see them on the streets in the UK within 10 years.
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Is there anyone who feels that something positive comes out of her death. Well, it made Cameron say something that I think he was sincere about.
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