The OFFICIAL *** Maggie Funeral Thread ***

[soistes]

Nope - just a "don't be too much of a twat" policy.

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Blimey, you are going to be weeding out large numbers of members with this new policy.

 

[glasfryn]

Yer man @pork pie. Just a cursory glance down his posts reveals his true colours.

On protestors, no-one is lower than them, not even murderers or rapists: "They are simply worse than dog shit"

Commenting on someone hoping that protestors would be arrested: "This. Hopefully AFTER cracking a few of their thick sculls. Hopefully we will see a few die"

On the topic of people dying in an earthquake: "Oh well, shit happens. Hardly anybody for us to cry over is it?"

Hateful and bilious enough for you?

when you put them together it is all rather nasty

surely this equates to a ban of some sort

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Doing yourself a disservice here Herr Tubthumper. We all know your views on Thatcher, you've made them clear many times but any chance you could stop "virtual" shouting them in our face today?

Or start a new thread?

It was a genuine question given the history of Fleet St. The union legislation which Thatcher brought in caused a lot of trouble in this geographic area.

 

[Horses Arse]

There have been some quality comments on twitter

"@frankieboyle: This guest list is a damning inditement of the inefficiency of the IRA"

"@JonDennis: It's what she would have wanted: UK unemployment rises to 2.56 million

"@frankieboyle: The combination of hairspray and hatred could see her body burn for 100 years like a Kuwaiti oilfield"

 

[BadFish]

I heard a load of school kids were chased by the police today. Apparently the police were told that Maggies last wish was for them to beat up a few more minors.

Thank you

I am here all week (unless Bozza bans me of course!)

 

[Stat Brother]

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[wehatepalace]

I am completely overwhelmed by emotion, RIP good lady, RIP.

 

[El Presidente]

RIP good lady, RIP.

Think you are on the wrong thread mate, this thread is about Mrs T.

 

[wehatepalace]

Think you are on the wrong thread mate, this thread is about Mrs T.

 

[BadFish]

Think you are on the wrong thread mate, this thread is about Mrs T.

Was she married to Mr T?

 

[soistes]

good turnout for the live feed of the funeral in Edinburgh

Whiteheads - Guardian Witness

 

[keaton]

Regardless of her politics, her decisions and the undoubted divisions that she created, she was a mother and a grandmother. For those posting bile-filled drivel, just try and put yourself in the shoes of her family grieving her loss today. Imagine how felt/would feel when you buried a close relative.

I don't reckon i'd go on a chatroom linked to a team I don't support in a sport i don't care about, so we should be pretty safe?

 

[mikeyjh]

Seems she's still quite popular in S Yorks:-

BBC News - Goldthorpe pit village s funeral

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Seems she's still quite popular in S Yorks:-

BBC News - Goldthorpe pit village s funeral

7 most annoying thatcher myths
Thatcher went to war with the mining unions. But her adversary’s role is often overlooked. Arthur Scargill was the boss of the National Union of Mineworkers, and what sort of a man was he?

In an extraordinary interview with BBC 5Live in 2000, Scargill reminded us that he was a Stalinist who adamantly supported the USSR, and suggested the Russian gulags - in which millions perished - might not have existed (prompting the listener who’d asked him about it to draw a parallel with David Irving’s holocaust denials). Famously, when asked how much losses a pit could make before being considered for closure, Scargill replied “the loss is without limits”.

On the eve of the strikes in 1984 energy minister Peter Walker put together a deal offering miners another job or a voluntary redundancy package, plus £800m investment in mining. He told Thatcher: “I think this meets every emotional issue the miners have. And it’s expensive, but not as expensive as a coal strike”. Thatcher replied “You know, I agree with you”.

Scargill turned down the offer, vetoed the expected ballot of miners to decide whether to strike, and, called a strike (Scargill later wrote about his decision in the Guardian).

Scargill’s politics eventually proved too extreme for his erstwhile political allies on the left, and he ended his career isolated and mocked by his fellow socialists. These days he declines to give interviews

 

[ALBION28]

I absolutely agree with you.

However, I suspect we would disagree about which of the comments are the embarrassing ones.

Personally, the ones I find most cringeworthy are the "disgusted of Hove (or wherever)" types shouting "show some respect", especially when, if you look at their posting record they often have a history of highly disrespectful and even abusive posts towards other Albion posters.

As I've said before on here I find it really difficult to understand why I should show respect towards the decomposing corpse of someone I didn't know personally, but whose policies, attitudes, and actions during her life as public figure, I totally despised. Her death simply reminds many of us of how awful we thought she was in life, and how toxic her legacy still is. Disrupting what amounts to an inappropriate state funeral for such a person, doesn't seem too outrageous to me, I confess.

However, I do respect your right to take a different view.

Totally agree, nicely summed up.

 

[mikeyjh]

Thatcher went to war with the mining unions. But her adversary’s role is often overlooked. Arthur Scargill was the boss of the National Union of Mineworkers, and what sort of a man was he?

In an extraordinary interview with BBC 5Live in 2000, Scargill reminded us that he was a Stalinist who adamantly supported the USSR, and suggested the Russian gulags - in which millions perished - might not have existed (prompting the listener who’d asked him about it to draw a parallel with David Irving’s holocaust denials). Famously, when asked how much losses a pit could make before being considered for closure, Scargill replied “the loss is without limits”.

On the eve of the strikes in 1984 energy minister Peter Walker put together a deal offering miners another job or a voluntary redundancy package, plus £800m investment in mining. He told Thatcher: “I think this meets every emotional issue the miners have. And it’s expensive, but not as expensive as a coal strike”. Thatcher replied “You know, I agree with you”.

Scargill turned down the offer, vetoed the expected ballot of miners to decide whether to strike, and, called a strike (Scargill later wrote about his decision in the Guardian).

Scargill’s politics eventually proved too extreme for his erstwhile political allies on the left, and he ended his career isolated and mocked by his fellow socialists. These days he declines to give interviews

I don't think there's too many fair minded people that, with the benefit of hindsight, are particularly supportive of Scargill's role in the whole thing, but what alot of people remember is Thatcher's disproportionate response and her complete like of compassion.

In fact, that's what sums Thatcher her up for me, she gave no consideration to the horrendous negative impacts on large parts of the population. She divided the nation in to 2 groups - Those that benefited (and I agree there's alot of them) and didn't give a crap about the have nots. Then you have those that suffered and those that benefited but do give a crap about those less fortunate than ourselves

 

[soistes]

I don't think there's too many fair minded people that, with the benefit of hindsight, are particularly supportive of Scargill's role in the whole thing, but what alot of people remember is Thatcher's disproportionate response and her complete like of compassion.

In fact, that's what sums Thatcher her up for me, she gave no consideration to the horrendous negative impacts on large parts of the population. She divided the nation in to 2 groups - Those that benefited (and I agree there's alot of them) and didn't give a crap about the have nots. Then you have those that suffered and those that benefited but do give a crap about those less fortunate than ourselves

Spot on (except, I'm not so sure she did have a liking for compassion...)

 

[SK1NT]

Amanda Thatcher is quite cute... shame about the accent...


Sorry just lightening the thread

 

[mikeyjh]

Spot on (except, I'm not so sure she did have a liking for compassion...)

Balls.

 

[soistes]

Amanda Thatcher is quite cute... shame about the accent...


Sorry just lightening the thread

That (American grand-daughter) reminds me -
One thing I do wonder, given that (at least according to her fans on here) Mrs T apparently transformed Britain and made it great again, is why all her children and grandchildren choose to live somewhere else?