Thatcher T-Shirts Sold in Brighton...

[Castello]

Mrs T is still a massively divisive character. A lot of things are her fault lack of social housing, the privatization of our services, the complete mess the north of the country still is. Like clapham seagull I also was educated under Thatcher and it was shite and no amount of rose tinted specs will change that, Its also true that shes a old woman who is seriously ill so its pointless hating on her. But just because you like her you shouldn't keep slagging down the unions because without them you wouldn't have sick pay holidays employment contracts or even a 5 day working week

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[Castello]

interesting points but remember how this thread started.............with the unions vile T shirt about Mrs T

Exactly which trade union's vile t shirt are we talking about....... Cos as I remember it was the t shirt being sold by Derbyshire unemployed workers that was banned by the TUC that was talked about. But lets not let facts get in the way of blind prejudice.

 

[looney]

Mrs T is still a massively divisive character. A lot of things are her fault lack of social housing, the privatization of our services, the complete mess the north of the country still is. Like clapham seagull I also was educated under Thatcher and it was shite and no amount of rose tinted specs will change that, Its also true that shes a old woman who is seriously ill so its pointless hating on her. But just because you like her you shouldn't keep slagging down the unions because without them you wouldn't have sick pay holidays employment contracts or even a 5 day working week

I think you will find the Unions delivered a 3 day week in the 70s, dont be modest here.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I think you will find the Unions delivered a 3 day week in the 70s, dont be modest here.

They were ahead of their time.

 

[Beach Hut]

I think you will find the Unions delivered a 3 day week in the 70s, dont be modest here.

And destroyed their own coal industry with good old Arthur

 

[timbha]

Exactly which trade union's vile t shirt are we talking about....... Cos as I remember it was the t shirt being sold by Derbyshire unemployed workers that was banned by the TUC that was talked about. But lets not let facts get in the way of blind prejudice.

ok I should edit my post to say "with an organisation affiliated to the TUC's vile T shirt about Mrs T"

 

[HOFNSKIN]

Even the evil old harpy's children have nothing to do with her.

This speaks more than a thousand words.

PISS ON HER GRAVE.

 

[HOFNSKIN]

Even the evil old harpy's children have nothing to do with her.

This speaks more than a thousand words.

PISS ON HER GRAVE.

 

[timbha]

PISS ON HER GRAVE.

classy post. What were the other 59 like?

 

[Hillian1]

Even the evil old harpy's children have nothing to do with her.

This speaks more than a thousand words.

PISS ON HER GRAVE.

I'd rather piss on yours if that's OK with you.

 

[martyn20]

I'd rather piss on yours if that's OK with you.

Don't feed the trolls

 

[Hillian1]

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

In the 70's and 80's I sat back and watched the attitude of the British public change in a short space of time due to some of Thatchers policies a lot of greed and hatred, good job the war came along for her, and do not forget that her own cabinet threw her out, in my view she was a poor PM ( but then most are)
Unions are essential to represent the views and welfare of the workers and protect them from bosses who only want to exploit. Unions have done so much good over the years for workers. So what did they do, constantly strike, ask for ridiculous demands, communist attitudes and generally do as much damage to the country at the time as Thatcher. Labour were not much better then as they were in their pockets.
The common denominator is egos, the power struggle, the refusal to do whats right and sensible for the good of the country, and to hell with the ordinary person.
And now, 30 and 40 years later, I am still sitting back and watching it continue and the next laughable episode (PMQ) is live on TV tomorrow at 12, and also in Brighton tune in and feel ashamed that these idiots are in control.

 

[Buzzer]

I can understand why the unions hate her. She unleashed a war against them and broke them permanently with anti-union legislation: some good (banning secondary picketing) and some very bad (allowing companies to apply for injunctions to ban strikes on spurious technicalities).

She detested the TUC for what they did to the Tories in the 70s and she deliberately killed off our coal industry just to remove the NUM from the political battleground. And I do honestly think that she saw widespread unemployment in the North as a fair price to pay for making sure that the TUC never again brought this country to a standstill.

When you've seen your industry decimated, your town turned into an economic wasteland and your friends and family all having to deal with long term unemployment then I think they are entitled to feel hatred for the woman, even now. I don't think us southerners understand fully how bad things were.

I write this as a lapsed Tory so I certainly don't hate her and won't cheer her death but I can empathise with that feeling because when Martin McGuinness dies I'll feel exactly the same way.

 

[Steve Foster]

Our best Prime Minister since Churchill & I feel honoured that I lived through the Thatcher years as an adult. This country went downhill economically after her time. She put the Great into Great Britain. Will be fondly remembered in years to come, when her successors on both sides will long be forgotten

 

[Camicus]

Our best Prime Minister since Churchill & I feel honoured that I lived through the Thatcher years as an adult. This country went downhill economically after her time. She put the Great into Great Britain. Will be fondly remembered in years to come, when her successors on both sides will long be forgotten

You dont really belive that do you?

 

[grawhite]

Hate the f***ing woman, and what she did to this country.

She done a whole lot less wrong than that prattish blair and co have done to the country, we more in debt now, than we ever were under Thatcher..

 

[martyn20]

Our best Prime Minister since Churchill & I feel honoured that I lived through the Thatcher years as an adult. This country went downhill economically after her time. She put the Great into Great Britain. Will be fondly remembered in years to come, when her successors on both sides will long be forgotten

This

 

[grawhite]

Our best Prime Minister since Churchill & I feel honoured that I lived through the Thatcher years as an adult. This country went downhill economically after her time. She put the Great into Great Britain. Will be fondly remembered in years to come, when her successors on both sides will long be forgotten

I totally agree, she went a bit potty towards the end of her rein as PM, she didn't take no shit, unlike the previous bunch of tossers in power.

 

[Beach Hut]

Our best Prime Minister since Churchill & I feel honoured that I lived through the Thatcher years as an adult. This country went downhill economically after her time. She put the Great into Great Britain. Will be fondly remembered in years to come, when her successors on both sides will long be forgotten

Amen to that