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Campaign to get Ding Dong the Witch is Dead to Number One
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scarby
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ooo is it a facebook campaign...........pathetic, just pathetic
SULLY COULDNT SHOOT
Loyal2Family+Albion!
NO! All you are doing is keeping Thatchers name at the top of the headlines. Best way is to absolutely ignore her.... Ive been doing it for 24 years.
Goldstone Rapper
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Another of those delicious ironies.
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ooo is it a facebook campaign...........pathetic, just pathetic
Oh no the Tories don't approve. We'd better all stop
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Another one who can't think. Your post implied that the majority of celebrants were just bandwagoners under 30 with no direct experience of Thatchers divisive greed driven policies and that they are, basically, wrong to celebrate because you say so. Clearly you're wrong on both counts.
Most people under 30 who despise Thatcher are presumably the children or younger siblings of people who DID suffer because of her or who are students of Politics and understand how she set the ball rolling towards the mess were in now?
They could be ignorant dicks as well of course...but then again, so could you.
I lived in Brighton in the Thatcher era. I have never been out of work.i. The mid 90s I moved to Liverpool and have lived here ever since.
1. She did reform the country, but her market reforms brought the risks we have seen in recent years. We were lucky there was t a bigger crash in the early 90s straight after her period in office. So she was good in many ways but was too much of an idealist.
2. She presided over a government that prided itself on not caring what happened to people. That wasn't just her - some of her ministers were worse. (It turned out recently that Geoffrey Howe suggested the government abandon Liverpool completely!) Margaret Thatcher was rightly blamed in Liverpool because she did nothing at all for the city. Only Michael Hesseltine stepped in to help and he is widely respected here regardless of party politics.
3. You can't abandon part of society and speak in the way she used to without alienating many people. She split society down the middle and we can see that division since her death.
4. The poll tax was immoral and a disaster for her.)
(5. Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet, not Margaret Thatcher - and it was done at Cern in Switzerland!
I have learnt that people in Liverpool have a great deal to offer our country. They like other working class towns were ignored and despised by her government. Despite this they have great spirit, imagination and a brilliant sense of humour. However this is not just about Liverpool. She split every town in the country. Buy the song- maybe not, but she can never be considered a great or popular Prime Minister.
1. She did reform the country, but her market reforms brought the risks we have seen in recent years. We were lucky there was t a bigger crash in the early 90s straight after her period in office. So she was good in many ways but was too much of an idealist.
2. She presided over a government that prided itself on not caring what happened to people. That wasn't just her - some of her ministers were worse. (It turned out recently that Geoffrey Howe suggested the government abandon Liverpool completely!) Margaret Thatcher was rightly blamed in Liverpool because she did nothing at all for the city. Only Michael Hesseltine stepped in to help and he is widely respected here regardless of party politics.
3. You can't abandon part of society and speak in the way she used to without alienating many people. She split society down the middle and we can see that division since her death.
4. The poll tax was immoral and a disaster for her.)
(5. Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet, not Margaret Thatcher - and it was done at Cern in Switzerland!
I have learnt that people in Liverpool have a great deal to offer our country. They like other working class towns were ignored and despised by her government. Despite this they have great spirit, imagination and a brilliant sense of humour. However this is not just about Liverpool. She split every town in the country. Buy the song- maybe not, but she can never be considered a great or popular Prime Minister.
Yeah. Apart from the actual facts of course, which prove her to be the joint most popular Prime Minister ever.
They don't need it. They still have millions in the bank they don't know what to do with.
It's nothing to do with being Tory. It's to do with being respectful of someone who has just died.
Goldstone Rapper
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Would she also be considered the most unpopular as well?
The problem was, they couldn't reach their productivity targets. The mines were losing money. The State was subsidising them.
Well, this is the BBC for you. That institution has been spouting anti-Thatcher Left-wing propaganda for 30 years. And it has been spouting pro-Left propaganda which the gullible youth actually believe.
She wasnt respectful to those that lived let alone those that died as a result of her policies
Keep purchasing !
Ding dong the witch is dead.
A lot of working class people did, thanks to Thatcher's policies. They still do.
I used to think that she had destroyed industry. But looking back, it was the Unions who destroyed British industry with their over-inflated demands.
Because she left political office more than 20 years ago.
Brian Fantana
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Personally, I think she's much more deserving of such a funeral than Lady Di was.
Eastleigh Seagull
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Yeah. Thank god the bitch is dead. I would much prefer it working a three day week with power cuts every day and when i could just dump rubbish in the street rather than having the inconvenience of binmen clearing it away.
I would much prefer an economy based on coal mining and shipbuilding so we could compete with those high wage economies like china.
I would much prefer to be governed by union leaders with their workers interests at heart (check out last years court case involving scargill and his million pound flat - or the current union leaders who get paid more than the prime minister) so we could all walk out on strikes for weeks on end for any spurious reason.
I would much prefer to live in the 1970s equivalent of modern day greece with 25% inflation (just think of all those index linked pay rises we would get) and going to the imf for bail out loans.
Get real. The country when she came into power was falling apart and she turned it around. Sure she didnt do it perfectly - who does. But you didnt see blair or brown changing her union laws and even god help us should ed milliband (who came to lead the labour party thanks to the unions) become pm do you think he will reintroduce flying pickets and striking without ballots?
Those who think the country would be in a better place without having had her as prime minister are flat out delusional.
I would much prefer an economy based on coal mining and shipbuilding so we could compete with those high wage economies like china.
I would much prefer to be governed by union leaders with their workers interests at heart (check out last years court case involving scargill and his million pound flat - or the current union leaders who get paid more than the prime minister) so we could all walk out on strikes for weeks on end for any spurious reason.
I would much prefer to live in the 1970s equivalent of modern day greece with 25% inflation (just think of all those index linked pay rises we would get) and going to the imf for bail out loans.
Get real. The country when she came into power was falling apart and she turned it around. Sure she didnt do it perfectly - who does. But you didnt see blair or brown changing her union laws and even god help us should ed milliband (who came to lead the labour party thanks to the unions) become pm do you think he will reintroduce flying pickets and striking without ballots?
Those who think the country would be in a better place without having had her as prime minister are flat out delusional.
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