Baroness Thatcher - Dead / RIP

[Hillian1]

Whatever you think of her, celebrating death is wrong.

To celebrate her death makes you the same cold hearted person you claimed she was.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

This.

I don't have it in me to rejoice at an old woman's death, however distasteful I found her in life.

Agreed.. would be interested to hear Elvis Costello's response.

 

[Manx Shearwater]

Shame on you, another POS.

Cecil Parkinson, is that you?

 

[bWize]

Show some respect for a lady who did so much to put the Great back in to Great Briton.

What, by selling off all our industries, council houses and taking milk from school kids? Yeh great fecking job she did there. She is the reason this country is in the state it is now. By the way it's 'Britain' not Briton

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

May not have been popular with a lot of people, but she entered a mans world of politics and became the first female PM, leading the way for more women in politics. You shouldnt ever rejoice in someones death either, mass killing terrorists excluded. If your rejoicing in someone dying, who isnt aforementioned, then its just sick and tasteless.

RIP

Oh and 45 pages and 7 bans.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

87 is a good innings.

I've heard the Manchester derby may now be postponed this evening.

I presume there will be a minutes applause at Middlesbrough on Saturday.

I will certainly applaud her passing.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Like 1978

Quite. Hopefully this might be used as an opportunity for people to remember life pre-Thatcher and a time when greed-driven, survival-of-the-fittest, ideology was not considered to be somehow a good thing.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Smashed the unions
Smashed the argies
Smashed labour.

What more could you ask for.

Put the great back into great Britain!

Smashed the Argies? It was the British Armed Forces that did that and with no great help from Thatcher:

Records Reveal Thatcher's Defence Cuts Battle

Thatcher warned of defence cuts dangers before Falklands war | UK news | The Guardian

 

[brakespear]

This.

I don't have it in me to rejoice at an old woman's death, however distasteful I found her in life.

Absolutely this, hated her government and policies at the time but do not have it in myself to find any joy in her passing.

edit:

Whatever you think of her, celebrating death is wrong.

To celebrate her death makes you the same cold hearted person you claimed she was.

Oh and absolutely this too.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

May not have been popular with a lot of people, but you shouldnt ever rejoice in someones death (mass killing terrorists excluded). Entered a mans world of politics and became the first female PM, leading the way for more women in politics.

And how many women did she give Cabinet posts to? She did very little personally to promote women in politics.

 

[brixtonA23]

Good on foreign policy, just forgot about where she was elected.

 

[Albumen]

Our political views aside, we shouldn't mock the dead. It's right to reflect on Mrs Thatcher - but we should also remember her victims.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Up there with Mussolini though.

Except she couldn't make the trains run on time.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

And how many women did she give Cabinet posts to? She did very little personally to promote women in politics.

Not at that time, i mean now. She led the way, in a way.

 

[El Presidente]

The Ashley Barnes of politics.

Cold, callous, calculating, her policies divided this country like none before or after, and the dividends are still being paid today in many parts of the country.

However, there is no joy in the death of anyone IMO.

 

[narly101]

the last true 'leader' of any stature we've had in this country, and probably last one we will see as these days all chinless and policy less and care only for popularity and not doing what needs to be done however unpopular - like Marmite you love or hate but can't but respect the fact she had more balls than a golf driving range and at least had the courage of her convictions to do what she believed in..... RIP MT

This with nobs on.

 

[The Large One]

Shame on you, another POS.

You're quite an angry person today, with your liberal (no irony intended) dishing out of abuse.

If her passing upsets you that much, I suggest you leave NSC to do some grieving, rather than go out of your way to look for people who didn't like her.

Return if you want to - the lady's not returning.

 

[BBassic]

I'm too young to remember her as PM but my family have many a choice word about her.

Still, I won't be celebrating her death.

 

[Smirko]

Smashed the Argies? It was the British Armed Forces that did that and with no great help from Thatcher:

Records Reveal Thatcher's Defence Cuts Battle

Thatcher warned of defence cuts dangers before Falklands war | UK news | The Guardian

Glad you agree on the other two though. It was her conviction not to curtail to dictators that kept the Falklands British. Doubt any other PM would have. They would be speaking Spanish if not for her.

 

[Lenny Rider]

She wasnt perfect, but who is, she's sold off the utilities and they ended up in foreign hands, she sold off Council houses without building replacement ones, she all but destroyed regional commercial TV by changing the law, but when she came to power this country was heading into obilvion and to a degree she turned things round including standing up to the likes of Scargill, but for me the most significant thing was when the IRA tried to murder her, she stood on that beach in her nightie and made a stand against terrorism, for all her faults perhaps we should remember that today.

And when you look at the state of this country today I think Messrs Blair, Brown and Cameron should shoulder far more blame.