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Margaret Thatcher Has Died
Slew of headlines out of the UK reporting that after suffering a stroke, the Iron Lady and former Prime Minister of the UK, Margaret Thatcher, has died. Rest in Peace.
Margaret Thatcher: October 13, 1925- April 8, 2013
Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.
Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."
Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.
Baroness Thatcher, born Margaret Roberts, became the Conservative MP for Finchley, north London in 1959, retiring from the Commons in 1992.
Having been education secretary, she successfully challenged former prime minister Edward Heath for her party's leadership in 1975.
She won general elections in 1979, 1983 and 1987.
Most productive on the scene? The FT, which posted this 2,369 word obit 10 minutes after news of her death:
Thatcher: ‘Iron lady’ who changed Britain
She changed us all. We went from being a people who saw ourselves as eternally on the downward slide to a nation that was proud to be British again. On the world stage too, she made Britain count once more. She was a startling presence who brought a strong and controversial style to our diplomacy after years of Foreign Office blandness.
The words are those of Charles Powell, one of the closest aides of the “iron lady” during her time in power. Margaret Thatcher, who has died aged XX, not only revolutionised the social order in her own country but did much to reshape world politics amid the crumbling of the Soviet empire.
The developed world's first woman prime minister transformed a sclerotic UK economy, all but neutered the trade unions and endeavoured “to roll back the frontiers of the state” with a policy of offloading the great nationalised industries and selling council houses to their occupants. Abroad, she was the indomitable leader who won victory over Argentina in the Falklands war, who decided that Mikhail Gorbachev was a Soviet leader she could “do business with” and who inspired a respect for “Thatcherism” as a political philosophy that was never quite matched on the domestic front.
The flip side of her courage, toughness and radicalism was an arrogance, obstinacy and remoteness that became more marked the longer she clung to office. She centralised power to a degree not seen before in modern Britain. One result of the way she dominated government was her failure to heal the wounds opened up in her own Conservative party over her plans for a poll tax and her negative approach to the UK's role in Europe. Yet such was the force of her presence that what came after her was defined in terms of her absence.
Born in 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Margaret Hilda Roberts was the younger daughter of a corner shop grocer, Alfred Roberts, and his wife Beatrice. He was a self-made man, a Liberal alderman and a father whose tenets of integrity, hard work and self-reliance were strong influences throughout her career. His younger daughter's self-belief manifested itself early. Told by a teacher how lucky she was to have won a poetry reading contest, the 10-year-old Margaret replied: “I was not lucky. I deserved it.”
Though far from poor by the standards of a provincial town in the Depression, the Roberts family had neither hot running water nor an indoor lavatory. Yet she and her sister Muriel were well-dressed – their mother was a seamstress – and in a class-conscious era the ambitious Margaret took elocution lessons when she went to Kesteven and Grantham girls school. She read chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, then a huge achievement for a girl of her origins, and joined the university's Conservative Association, becoming its president in 1946.
After Oxford she worked as a research chemist but spent much time in Dartford, Kent, where she became party candidate. It was a hopeless seat for a Tory but at her adoption meeting she was offered a lift home by a wealthy businessman, a divorcé some 10 years her senior called Denis Thatcher. As he later said: “She stood for Dartford twice and lost twice, and the second time she cried on my shoulder I married her.” Denis was to give her unstinting support emotionally and financially throughout her career.
In 1953 the couple had twins, Carol and Mark. Denis's wealth meant they could afford a full-time nanny so motherhood did not stop her reading law, passing her Bar exams and in 1959 becoming MP for the London seat of Finchley.
She stood out from the beginning. Westminster's few women MPs tended to be older and unmarried whereas Thatcher, apart from her mastery of detail and her fluency as a speaker, was a young mother with an almost chocolate-box prettiness. She was made parliamentary secretary to the pensions minister and after the Conservatives' 1964 defeat the new party leader, Edward Heath, promoted her to his shadow cabinet even though he had been warned that “if we take her we'll never be able to get rid of her”. When Heath won the 1970 election she was given the cabinet post of education secretary. In the eyes of her contemporaries, however, she was still the token woman in the government.
She might have remained such, but for her performance as a minister and her ability to capitalise on her luck. As education minister she approved more comprehensive school schemes than anyone before or since, and she earned notoriety by ending free milk for pupils over eight. “Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher,” became the first of many derogatory slogans applied to her throughout her political life.
She formed an alliance with Sir Keith Joseph, a tortured intellectual of the right, who was appalled when Heath performed his great U-turn, back towards the corporate state and the imposition of controls over prices and incomes. By the time the Heath government fell in February 1974, Joseph's circle was increasingly influential. Heath lost a second election that October yet declined to stand down.
Had he done so, any one of a number of prominent male colleagues might have succeeded him. Probably Thatcher would not have made the attempt. But as the manoeuvring proceeded the men wrote themselves out. When Joseph refused to stand following an ill-judged speech about working-class inbreeding, she said she would do so “because somebody with our viewpoint has to stand”.
Airey Neave, an anti-Heath backbencher who was later murdered by the IRA, put his organising talents, and a list of supporters already garnered, at her disposal. She trounced Heath on the first ballot and clinched the leadership against a pile of second-rounders. As Opposition leader she and her team evolved a statement of principles entitled The Right Approach to the Economy. Its essence was monetary and fiscal prudence, the detachment of the trade unions from the management of national affairs and a reduction in the role of the state. It became a foundation document of Thatcherism.
Soon she had made her mark, not just at home but also on the world stage – much helped by an early speech attacking the Soviet Union, which led the Red Army to come up with the “iron lady” epithet.
Oppositions often depend on the incumbent government destroying itself. Labour obliged. The 1978-79 “winter of discontent” was marked by public sector strikes that left rubbish piled high in the streets and the dead unburied. Labour's electoral hopes were destroyed for a decade.
When Thatcher came to power in 1979 the British polity was in a mess. Inflation and unemployment were rising and the unions to many seemed out of control. Against all conventional wisdom, she took an axe to public spending. At one celebrated meeting she even demanded an extra £1bn cut in spite of warnings from those present that the country would fall apart.
Resisting calls for a softer line, she told the 1980 Tory conference: “To those waiting for the favourite media catchphrase ‘the U-turn', I have only one thing to say: U-turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.”
The economic medicine was hard to stomach. Unemployment rose above 3m, manufacturing output fell and the new prime minister's poll rating slid. Yet by 1983, inflation was down below 4 per cent from a peak of 22 per cent and the Conservatives' ratings were up again. Years later Lord Carrington, who became her foreign secretary, said: “Her finest hour really was with the economy and changing people's perceptions of what we ought to be doing.” It was, he said, greater even than her display of leadership in the Falklands war.
When Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982, Thatcher barely hesitated before sending a 25,000-strong military task force to reclaim the tiny colony. Victory and her unswerving purpose throughout the war cemented her image of determination at home and abroad. So too did her successful, table-thumping battles to reduce the UK's contribution to the European Community budget, insisting: “I want my money back.” Despite being described by François Mitterrand, then the president of France, as having “the lips of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula”, her European and global fan club multiplied. Her election victory in 1983, against a Labour party led by the elderly Michael Foot, seems in retrospect to have been almost too easy.
If Britain's military triumph in the South Atlantic was the most dramatic event of her first term, the vanquishing on a peacetime battlefield of the National Union of Mineworkers was the outstanding victory of her second. It was a bloody conflict with communities torn apart and pitched battles between miners and the police. Yet the NUM, previously regarded as invincible by any government, was eventually forced to back down.
On the economic front, Thatcher continued the battle to “roll back the frontiers of the state”. Privatisation began with National Freight and was extended to include steel, gas, telecommunications and water. State support for private industry was phased out. Local authority homes were sold at a discount to tenants, dramatically boosting home ownership though at the cost of an enduring void in housing provision for the poor.
These advances towards an increasingly liberal domestic economy, within a world marketplace where Britain was again respected, began to appear unstoppable. So did she. At the 1984 Tory conference in Brighton, five died and others were seriously injured when an IRA bomb ripped through the Grand Hotel just before 3am. The prime target survived. Next morning, condemning the attack as an attempt to cripple democracy, she told reporters : “This is the day I was not meant to see . . .”
It was her opposition to communism that helped bring about what she later regarded as her greatest achievement: the collapse of the Soviet empire. Her decade in Downing Street coincided with Ronald Reagan's eight years in the White House and the two became political soul mates. She supported Reagan as he brought the Russians to their knees by his willingness to outspend them on defence. At the same time she encouraged Mr Gorbachev's reform programme, recognising that it could help destroy collectivism from within. She won the hearts of much of the Soviet public in a barnstorming visit in 1987. Complete with a stunning new wardrobe, as one aide said she “came on like a modern Tsarina”. Barely two years later the Berlin Wall fell.
At home, however, her attitude to Europe was the cause of political setbacks. One of the biggest was the dramatic departure from her cabinet of Michael Heseltine, who walked out following a row over whether the Americans or Europeans should rescue the Westland helicopter company. On the surface she remained unruffled. She even recovered, although only temporarily, from the resignation of Nigel Lawson as chancellor of the exchequer.
Yet each new departure left her more isolated. Each was, in essence, a replay of the argument over the UK's place in Europe. As prime minister she had sanctioned the Single European Act, creating a genuine single market. Yet she hated any idea of a European superstate. In an outspoken speech at Bruges in 1988, she insisted: “We haven't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels.”
Her strident tone dismayed pro-Europeans in her cabinet. Thatcher was unrepentant and the wound festered. So too did that caused by her plans to introduce a regressive local government poll tax in the face of widescale opposition from Tories. By the time of her tenth anniversary as prime minister, it could be seen by others, but not by her, that she had been in office long enough. In 1989 a pro- European backbencher, Sir Anthony Meyer, stood against her and garnered enough votes to show there was real discontent in the parliamentary party.
The coup de grâce came the following year from Geoffrey Howe, her former chancellor and foreign secretary, who stunned the House of Commons by suggesting in his resignation speech that Thatcher's attitude was “like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find, the moment the first balls are bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain”.
A few days later Mr Heseltine, her long-time opponent, stood against her. A badly organised campaign, and an arrogance that saw her flying off to Paris on the night of the vote, brought about what many had believed unthinkable: she failed to win outright on the first ballot.
She had been proved mortal. Discontent over poll tax, her anti-European stance and her imperious style led her cabinet, one by one, to tell her that she should go.
The trauma of her unseating was to ravage Tory unity for years. One small consolation for her was that John Major, not Mr Heseltine, succeeded her.
Her final speech as prime minister in the Commons was a bravura performance as she defended her record, even at one point insisting: “I'm enjoying this!”
Although they stayed in power until ousted by Tony Blair and New Labour in 1997, the Tories were deeply scarred by the manner of her departure. It was to be 20 years before it entirely regained its confidence and momentum. Thatcher lived to see her party return to power under David Cameron in 2010 but she was too frail to attend the 85th birthday party in Number 10 that had been arranged for her.
She had never fully recovered from her abrupt and forced exit from frontline politics. In 1992 she went to the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven. For a while, on the international lecture circuit she received ecstatic receptions from foreign audiences, amazed that the British had ditched her. But it was not the same.
Her health started to deteriorate. In 2004 Sir Denis, made a hereditary baronet in his wife's resignation honours, died and she was left alone. She battled on, but her best moments were when she met old friends to talk about past triumphs and to dream of marching into Downing Street and making Britain great again.
Sue Cameron and Joe Rogaly
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Here, at the 2:33 mark, Thatcher predicts what would happen if an EU were created with a single currency...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv5t6rC6yvg&feature=player_embedded
Thanks Van Halen......have you seen junior's grades?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFez84xaR6Q
Hell will freeze over when she arrives, cold hearted, wicked, evil, bitch.
Now lets hope she isn't reincarnated,
reincarnated?
She's just been promoted ABOVE Satan. He's not happy about her arrival either.
Wicked witch of the West is dead!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Witch_of_the_West
Hooray!
Question: What effect do you think having an extra X million homeowners in a short space of time had on the social housing market?
If EVERYONE in the UK had benefitted from her policies, I wouldn't have a problem. The ever widening gap between rich and poor since her terms in office, suggests certain people did much better than others. In such a financial climate, a large supply of social housing is paramount. Why do you think the benefits bill is so large at present? Couldn't have anything to do with massive amounts of housing benefit being paid to private landlords who charge high rents, knowing the state will pick up the tab for those who can't afford it, could it? Try looking for affordable housing (which council houses used to be) and you won't find any, nowadays, unless you're perepared to be on a very long waiting list or have some special need. Working poor, remain poor with rent eating up the best part of a month's wages, in some cases. That wasn't the case, pre-Thatcher.
For any policy, there are winners and losers.
It is only stupid socialists who believe that EVERYBODY can be a winner.
Win/win situations do not exist.
It is our creed that EVERYBODY can be free.
Signed: an American.
She read chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford,
That is what she was doing was it ? The usual story is that she spent so much time politicking in OUCA that she failed to attend lectures. Fortunately when she went to Oxford the degrees were Unclassified and had been shortened for returning soldiers so they could catch up on their lives. She benefitted from this loophole and the Oxford Calendar records her results as being without a Degree Class in what is conventionally a 4-year degree.
Her father was also an Alderman in Grantham and his shop was in an affluent part of town on the corner. She went to a good Grammar School - there are very few left after her time as Education Secretary in the 1970s.
As for Ghordius' points about The City. There are NO British Banks left. Many of those were originally German anyway - Kleinworts, Schroeders, Warburgs......but it is now thoroughly corrupted as a playground for US Megabanks to utilise lax regulation and dodgy rules to leave the toxic waste of sour deals with the dimwit British
Watching people suck Margaret Thatcher's dick after she's dead is kind of creepy.
Heroine of the cold war, rest in peace. I had the pleasure of sending Jeane Kirkpatrick flowers and a thank you note for her leadership during the cold war before her death. I wish I had sent the same note to Lady Thatcher. Tens of millions of people live in relative freedom and with less fear due to her fearless leadership during the IRBM/SS-20, Pershing 2 stand-off, and her inspirational rhetoric supporting western civilization througout her service. Her memory will be eternal to those of us who treasure freedom.
Amen to that. A voice that carried far across the globe denouncing the abject horror that is socialism in all its forms.
except it was a lie. There's nothing wrong with socialism so long as it is by consent & without central control. Worker co-ops work fine, for example. It's not slavery & it's not tax-extraction.
You're an idiot with a brain the size of a walnut.
Socialism is a lie bulit from lies, supported by more lies because it cannot stand on it's own merits because it doesn't support freedom but control of the masses starting with their minds, though control of information and education and more lies, oh yes, and force.
How do we know this aside from the dead bodies, broken lives and tortured souls left in it's wake? Aside from logical, instead of magical thinking?
Reformed Socialists/Marxists/Communists tell us so, in detail.
Thanks, a good summary of socialism.
No, every word was a lie describing feudalism, nothing about socialism, not one word.
You're a fucktard.
Socialism and capitalism stand AS EQUALS - if everyone co-operates and chips in funds, capital, produces work, this is equal as both share-holding and equal-stance in investors to a partnership business.
The only detail that is different is if socialists prefer to have all shares of equal value of equal buy-in to ownership, whereas the enterprising capitalist would of course justify rightly that whoever can pay twice as much as the other fellow should own twice as much & be entitled to twice the gains / benefits. And twice the risk.
We have never seen socialism used by a government - it is incompatible. By definition a government must use central control and that central control is 100% anti-capitalist as well as mostly anti-socialist. Not all socialism requires central control or state intervention & certainly when worker-co-ops are used from the private market this is purely socialist with zero government & zero central control and zero danger of causing "massive body counts". It is 100% peaceful, productive business, just like capitalist investment.
You've been lied to all your life about what socialism is AND about what capitalism is.
What you've seen is warlord fiefdoms, feudalism and fascism and been told is was capitalism by one group of liars, socialism by another group of liars.
This is zerohedge, this is for the big boys 'n' girls.
Rule #8 - if this is your first time at fight club YOU HAVE TO FIGHT.
I love it.
Lets all work for John Lewis!
You're pathetic...
i thought she died years ago.
No mate, your getting confused with her conscious, that died in 1979
The ultimate bankster bitch is dead. RIP.
What's most striking is that nobody has yet mentioned the fact that Margaret Thatcher invented and patented soft scoop ice cream.
Everybody is just talking about her political and economic work (largely irrelevent compared to the ice cream work).
Well she won't be working Maggi's Farm no more! R.I.P. (if you can)
She didn't invent that by herself ;)
She was so she was.
Maggie, I wish I'd never seen your face!!!!
http://youtu.be/ZY5eTP6fCmA?t=4m30s
Although I didn't wish her death, I'm nevertheless somewhat relieved. I've lived to see this happen, and I am thankful to be alive while she lies 6 feet under. Better make that 12 feet, for safetys sake.
Some great reading this morning in the comments zone.
The most striking revelation is how polarized the two sides of the issue are, and how both sides are absolutely correct.
"Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day!"
"Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day!"
"Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day!"
considering the damage Thatcher did to the UK's economy I don't think she'll really be missed.
people are generally unpopular when they pay down debt
this won't be coming to a country neear you though..the socialists have taken over the asylum and are after your money
check out what thatcher did for the debt of the UK during her time in office between 1979 and 1990
http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/334/uk-economy/uk-national-debt/
not a bad result considering the recession of 1981 and the need for Britain to take an IMF bail-out in 1976
the more you hate the reduction in the use of debt, the more you are a communist..the measures she brought to bear rescued a country that had been broken by socialism
the same choices face all the world economies today..and not one country has the balls that she had to fix them
Now she's smoking on the devil's dong, that evil whore.
Too bad it wasn't George Bush Sr. and his dreams with him.
doesn't matter; this plan is beyond flesh and blood.
She was a giant who eclipsed the snapping yorkies about her. One of those few whom we could not have done without. Legendary courage and forthrightness which is sadly undesired and unsought by others, more so as the years pass.
Condolences to SAS and others who knew and loved her. Your grief is shared throughout the world.
She delayed the communist movement for years and made her country better for it...
You people here being crude, ignorant and disrespectful of the dead need to manage some respect, some decorum. There are plenty of sordid people in your industry but a least try to hide your nature now. Without Thatcher you would have no financial services whatsoever in London or Europe to think of.
There is a lot of revolting crap posted here and there ought to be more gratitude.
her smell rose to high heaven
FUCK YOU.
"There is a lot of revolting crap posted here and there ought to be more gratitude."
Why is it that sociopathic scumbags always demand gratitude from others?
Most of these comments that you are referring to are coming from millennials... where, the closest they've ever come to dealing with death, was the death of their pet goldfish or hamster when they were 6 years old, and where mommy and daddy just went out and bought them a new one. You see, everything in their self-centered life is disposable... pets, relationships, people they don't know such as Thacher, money (of course) and unborn babies... you get the picture.
Get ready. This treasure trove of pretentious intellectuals are going to be writing laws over you and me in the next 20 years or so. God help us all...
I guess she wanted to be cremated so Elvis Costello couldn't tramp on her grave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-BZIWSI5UQ&feature=youtube_gdata
Over 16,000 people have signed a petition in the UK demanding that Margaret Thatchers funeral be privatised.
The petition which is officially under Government consideration, says "It would be in keeping with the great ladies legacy to have the private sector fund and manage her funeral.
http://www.thejournal.ie/16k-people-sign-petition-asking-for-thatchers-funeral-to-be-privatised-312518-Dec2011/
Margaret Thatcher destroyed more of Britains manufacturing capacity than Hitler and his Luftwaffe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ST4MV3ETQ-g
TIOCFAIDH AR LA, BITCH...
"Tramp The Dirt Down" - E.C.
When it was announced that Ronald Reagan had Alzheimers my reaction was "no shit Dick Tracy". When it was announced that Margaret Thatcher had Alzheimers my reaction was "There is some justice." May they both, and all those like them, rot in a special place in hell.
that's some coincidence, isn't it? that the BFF both lose their memory of the destruction wrought on behalf of their handlers. . .
almost like it was planned.
Where in the article is the part about driving a wooden stake through her heart?
It took a woman with a pair of steel underwear to turn around a stagnating Britan. She really did save England from being a small island perenially in the throes of a recession, from weating itself.
All the dbags dissing Maggie here obviously are sheeple of the left wing press. She took away the milk!
Stand up straight you whingeing pommies and genuflect to the great woman that saved England....for a little while.
“We haven't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels.”
You feeble whingeing pommies couldn't even keep the Eurocrats from stealing your lunch. You bunch of FuckKnuckles
Welcome to the 1970s Revisited in Britain 2013. Stagflation is back and this time it is not just Midland Bank that is bust. Whatever miracle North Sea Oil managed to allow Thatcher to create liberating millions from manufactiring jobs and turning them into Consumers is no more
Yeah Clowns - she definitely make England what it is today. May I suggest that you move there so that you can enjoy the full impact of her accomplishments.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/angelameiquan/21-incredibly-angry-songs-about-ma...
She was a woman for all seasons. Rest in peace.
The best was the plan to scrap HMS Britannia the royal yacht to save MoD money. That was a disaster as the press mobilised so they saved £300,000 by scrapping HMS Endeavour the protection vessel off the Falklands and Galtieri seeing it as a green light to invade.
So to save £300,000 they lost £800 million of ships in the Falklands, 255 men and spent £2.8 billion. Sailors already declared redundant had to be sent to war and the pitiful state of the British military gave Argentina more than fair odds on defeating a NATO power.
Yes, R.I.P indeed. Thatcher was a wise, honest and fearless leader, who has been proved right on just about every issue she fought for.
Mrs. T was a chemistry graduate who gave the British Mr. Whippy ice-cream, a staple of British seaside holidays since the 1950's: http://www.mrwhippyicecream.co.uk/the-history-of-ice-cream/
But mostly she was a vile old bitch :
She went out of her way to divide the nation against itself deliberately creating the miner's strike with the exact intention of destroying communities in the north of England.
She called Nelson Mandela a terrorist and Pinochet a hero.
She said that there was no such thing as society and that anyone who used a bus after the age of 30 was a failure in life.
She gifted billions of public money - most notoriously through the illegal sale of TSB - to her friends in The City.
She introduced the poll tax - a tax last attempted in 1381 when it ended with the peasants' revolt.
She introduced the obnoxious section 28 - the most regressively homophobic legislation introduced in the UK since 1885.
As the satirical TV show "Spitting Image" said of her in the 1980's when it lampooned here as a sheepdog for farmer Ronald Reagan : "A real prize bitch, that one".
And I am intending to toast her death with a glass of campagne this evening while our hypocritical political "leaders" weep their crocodile tears.
Mr Whippy was named after her gimp slave.
Ding-dong the witch is dead
You'll like this one:
the day thatcher dies
"Good Riddance"
rot in hell... maggi ,
you unmitigated "Bitch"!!!
and fuck England...
RIP? Fuck that!
The Top 13 anti-Thatcher songs
and I plan on listening to everyone of them today!
Everyone here bitching and fighting but isnt it nice to see some good news on the TV for once.
I think Flakmeister said it best : Never has anybody depleted an oil field as fast as Margaret Thatcher did; so much depleted so fast by so few for the benefit of so few in trickle down mode.
It probably contributed as much to british uber wealth as the City big bang and "welcome to oligarchy land" shingle, that went up with the non-doms "Chelsea is your football club" groovy status.
Land of the 1% par excellence since the Plantagenets; the worst gift that France gave to England, but it did acquire them the claret. Small but gracious consolation.
I plead guilty to : honni soit qui mal y pense! I feel ashamed on this Maggy remembrance day to write thus.
But public life has its cruel consequences; and this is not personal, its like an epitaph for this raging ideology of neo liberalism that she personified. She was intransigent as a political icon so she would expect the world to judge her likewise : in black or in white; as she professed to incarnate good : to a land divided I bring harmony...Indeed...
She was an exceptional person, whether you like her or not. May she lie in peace.
But now she truly belongs to history. Let that process now begin.
Alright, we'll take the niggers and the chinks, but we don't want the Irish.
They said I was hung and they is right.
I can't scream this loud enough. FUCK YOU! YOU INBRED ENGLISH WHORE! I hope your eternal soul is raped daily by multi spiked cock wielding demons non stop! May you and Cromwell be forced to endure constant and complete agony and pain you fucking English cunt! Remember the 10!!!
Sincerely one exuberant Irishman now that this bitch is dead.
Fair comment...if they think a procession threw London Diana style will go down well they are fecking lunatics , the place will erupt
Living here when she died http://www.theritzlondon.com/london-,rooms-en.html
The country could burn on this...and i mean that
I really wish the IRA would try suicide bombing.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
England's most prominent diva in the '80s, capable of deafening an entire country (?world) with her piercing "mi". A powerful late century neoliberal vector whose arrow has helped to lead humanity straight down the toilet. Forget the MSM RIP, a progressive BIH is more appropriate.
I'm getting soooo pissed tonight
Bah! I am far more grief stricken that Annette Funicello has gone tits up. At least hers were up where they were supposed to be, unlike Maggies which created a bulge in her pants.
Wasn't she best mates with Pinochet?
Hey, that cunt's not breathing
I think she's had too much
Of something or other, hey, man, you know what I mean?
I don't mean to scare you
But you're the one who came here
And you're the one who's gotta take her when you leave
I'm not being smart
Or trying to be cold on my part
And I'm not gonna wear my heart on my sleeve
But you know people get all emotional
And sometimes, man, they just don't act rational you know,
They think they're just on TV
Sha-la-la-la, man
Why don't you just slip her away
You know, I'm glad that we met man
It really was nice talking
And I really wish that there was a little more time to speak
But you know it could be a hassle
Trying to explain this all to a police officer
About how it was that your old lady got herself stiffed
And it's not like we could help
But there wasn't nothing no one could do
And if there was, man, you know I would have been the first
But when someone turns that blue
Well, it's a universal truth
And then you just know that bitch will never fuck again
By the way, that's really some bad shit
That you came to our place with
But you ought to be more careful around the little girls
It's either the best or it's the worst
And since I don't have to choose
I guess I won't and I know this ain't no way to treat a guest
But why don't you grab your old lady by the feet
And just lay her out in the darkest street
And by morning, she's just another hit and run.
You know, some people got no choice
And they can never find a voice
To talk with that they can even call their own
So the first thing that they see
That allows them the right to be
Why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck.
'Americans' are funny people because their duplicity is so obvious.
One thing to do woud be to start an article on the desindustrialization of an 'american' country and how it destroyed it. A few days after sending a vocal tribute to the 'american' Tchatcher.
I remember she had an aide with some thick eye brows. Guy had very thick brows.
Nobody remembers his name?
Oh yes, as a northener a tratior to his people...SIR Bernard Ingrham
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/margaret-thatchers-former-pr...
Ingham, that is the name.
Thanks.
Singing 'The wicked witch is dead' was a great way to find out the staunch tories in the office...
The first term wasn't too awful but she sure went bonkers later on. Labour however can still lay claim to the worst PM in living memory: Blair you lying slimy piece of crap, you're worse than Thatcher was and more hated. Suck on that.
Just another criminal pol that avoided the guillotine by way of death. hujel
Post WW2s Best Leader without any doubt.
RIP Margaret Thatcher
Do you remember the good old days before the ghostown?
If so you will remember her theme tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WhhSBgd3KI
Dr. Hudson does a lookback...
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04/michael-hudson-thatchers-legacy-o...
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead is puported to have a high (re)entry into the UK charts, FACT:
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/1556725/an...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-dead-judy-garland...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306655/Margaret-Thatcher-dead-B...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/adam-jung/thatcher-ding-dong-witch-is-de...
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/ding-dong-the...
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/308313/Judy-Garland-s-witch-is-goin...
Thatcher is dead, and Keith Richards is still touring. Bwahahaha