Mark Thatcher

[Superseagull]

And to make the story more interesting there are rumours that one Mr Jeffery Archer may of been invovled in the coup attempt as well. Appartantly his name has cropped up in the bank statements of the mercenary leader.

 

[Bwian]

And to make the story more interesting there are rumours that one Mr Jeffery Archer may of been invovled in the coup attempt as well. Appartantly his name has cropped up in the bank statements of the mercenary leader.

How easy is it to get a corrupt tory twat extradited? I hope the answer is "VERY EASY". Isn't there a way we can also involve Mr Whippy-what's his bloody name? Thora Herd!

 

[Dover]

One more reason to do away with the royal family and all of the honours bollocks associated with them. If Mark Thatcher is eligible to be titled.....the mind boggles!

Sir Mark Thatcher? What a f***ing joke. When the evil Witch goes to visit the fruit of her womb-can we not get her arrested too?

Grrrr...I hate that cow, her family and everything they have ever stood for.

Fully agree. It looks like the country will be one huge street party when the Thatch goes.

I for one cannot wait.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Well this from todays Guardian made me chuckle;

I blame the parents

John O'Farrell
Friday August 27, 2004
The Guardian

Who among us can honestly say that our children have never done anything a little bit naughty in the past? Sneaking a chocolate from the second layer in the box when no one was looking; going into next door's garden to get their ball back without asking; funding military coups in a third-world countries with an eye to making an illegal fortune. No child is perfect and they grow out of these things; he's only 51, for goodness sake.
The news that Sir Mark Thatcher had been arrested for alleged involvement in a botched coup attempt seemed to chime with the other headline of the week that boys are finally catching up with the girls. Unless, of course, Carol Thatcher suddenly gets caught flogging AK47s to Colombian terrorists in order to secure lucrative cocaine smuggling contracts; nothing would surprise me anymore. Frankly, I blame the parents.

News first leaked out six months ago of an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. Early details were sketchy, though first reports suggested that it was possibly in Africa or maybe in South America - oh, hang on, that's Ecuador and Guyana, isn't it? Anyway, no one in the newsroom had ever been there on holiday, and since no Americans were involved the story was quickly forgotten.

But recently it emerged that the ex-Etonian organiser of the coup was an old friend of Mark Thatcher (they were joint winners of Upper Class Twit of the Year 1982) and from his cell in a high-security African prison, he wrote a letter demanding that the son of the former PM help get him out. That'll teach Mark to put his details on Friends Reunited. Sir Mark was arrested on Wednesday morning in his pyjamas at his home outside Cape Town, and if found guilty of involvement in the conspiracy could face a lengthy jail sentence. Lefties in the 80s sought inspiration from prisoners in South Africa, so look out for Tories at next month's party conference sporting T-shirts saying "Free Sir Mark Thatcher!" Incidentally, a large payment to the leader of the coup was also made by someone with the name J Archer, and it's been reported that Lady Thatcher is "extremely distressed" at the news of the affair. It just gets better and better.

However, this African adventure does leave the rest of us wondering if we lead rather mundane lives. None of my old school friends has ever asked me to lend a helicopter to assist his ex-SAS mercenaries stage a third-world coup with a view to making millions out of oil reserves. I was invited to a bring-and-buy sale to raise funds for the new rubber matting under the school swings, but somehow it didn't have quite the same dangerous glamour.

Sir Mark (who owes his knighthood to his mother's inspired idea of bringing back hereditary honours just before she herself retired) has never been very far from controversy. Despite the thousands spent on his education at Harrow school, he only managed three O-levels and then failed his accountancy finals three times. Apparently, examiners were not impressed with the way he answered every hypothetical funding problem with the answer: "Just get mummy to have a word with them."

Yet he has since accumulated a fortune of around £60m with no one being very sure where any of it comes from. Perhaps he just cuts a lot of money-off coupons out of Take-a-Break magazine. Heaven forbid that he might have ever used his family connections to secure any dodgy business deals. The allegation that he was in Oman in 1981 to act as an intermediary for a £300m deal secured by his mother is completely without foundation. No, he just happened to be in the Middle East because he took another wrong turning in the Sahara desert.

Neither is there any truth in the allegations that he made £12m in commissions on the al-Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia, signed by his mother. No, he was on a CND demo at the time. Of course, by the time Mrs T was thrown out of office, America also had a leader with a stupid son who seemed to make a curiously large amount of money out of some rather shady deals, so I suppose we should just be grateful that Thatcher Jnr hasn't followed his mother into No 10.

In fact, episodes like this remind us of the type of morality that prevailed during the greedy Thatcher years. Thank heavens things have moved on. Can you imagine our current prime minister being associated with the sort of people who'd embark on some ill-thought-out military adventure because they hoped to install a regime that would allow them to get their hands on the country's oil reserves? It's completely unthinkable.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Great timing. Let's hope this terrible news finishes her off and we can get the street parties going.

''Cos when they finally put you in the ground
They'll stand there laughing and tramp the dirt down'

Elvis Costello, Tramp The Dirt Down

 

[readingstockport]

One of the things that really, REALLY worries me about this is when the f***ing old cow finally does the decent thing you can just guarantee that bliar and his f***ing tory wanabees will declare a day of national mourning and we'll all be expected to shut the country down for the day whilst bbc and itv give the old cow wall-to-wall coverage as she finally sods off

 

[Uncle Buck]

One of the things that really, REALLY worries me about this is when the f***ing old cow finally does the decent thing you can just guarantee that bliar and his f***ing tory wanabees will declare a day of national mourning and we'll all be expected to shut the country down for the day whilst bbc and itv give the old cow wall-to-wall coverage as she finally sods off

However if we do get a day off at least we can watch to make sure that the old witch really is in the ground.

 

[readingstockport]

Very good point UB and I'm bloody sure there'll be one hell of a party in the Hobgoblin.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Very good point UB and I'm bloody sure there'll be one hell of a party in the Hobgoblin.

I would like to be in one of mining towns that the old witch f***ed over, that would be fantastic.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

However if we do get a day off at least we can watch to make sure that the old witch really is in the ground.

I think a vigil by the graveside would be needed for a good few months. If I was there I would certainly arm myself with a stake, garlic and a well- sharpened flymo.

If they did call a national day of mourning I would insist on the 'right to work' and go in anyway dressed as loudly and brightly as possible.

 

[Sir Royston thorne]

Thatcher cost me and some 350 of my colleagues their jobs...I shed no tears for her or her brood....

But if you were trying to organise a coup in a far off land WHO would trust that little idiot to do anything useful ?....

Face it he can't find his arse with both hands........

Execute the tosser !

 

[Uncle Buck]

Execute the tosser !

No I like the idea of the old witch having to do weekend prison visits so bang him up.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

No I like the idea of the old witch having to do weekend prison visits so bang him up.

He will no doubt attract the attentions of his fellow inmates and
she can bring him the soothing creams and soft cushions which he will be sorely in need of.

 

[Uncle Buck]

He will no doubt attract the attentions of his fellow inmates and
she can bring him the soothing creams and soft cushions which he will be sorely in need of.

So it will be like being back at Harrow.

 

[Oval Gull]

When he died I did enjoy the headline in the Guardian which read 'Dear Bill they have called last orders.'

Was disspointed however when the first headline I read after he died was 'Thatcher Dead', got all excited only to read further and discover it was Denis and not Satans Hand Maiden.

And I get the same feeling when I see the headlines saying "Thatcher arrested" I think FINALLY the OB have caught up with her. Yet again, they are refering to a different Thatch.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

I've got good money on Her in My works death sweep.
Come on You old Bastard cash your chips in.

 

[towbarball]

One of Mark Scratchers fellow conspiritors who has been arrested is an inbred Tory scum member of the watney/mann brewing
dynasty.
Pay back time for Watneys Red Barrel and Party Sevens.

 

[towbarball]

Would not society be better served if police activity concentrated on bringing the Thatcher

 

[towbarball]

Would not society be better served if police activity concentrated on bringing the Thatcher Family to answer for all of their crimes
instead of hounding KEIRON FALLON.