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She's dead

This thread is disgusting but I really shouldn't be surprised, those on the left who claim to be so loving and caring are always the most savage and revolting when they let their true colors show.
 
cannot believe what people are saying on here about a sodding politician, very childish and makes yo sound like fucking savages. She was an old woman/granny who has family who are hurt today

Grow up, get over it

Yeh I'm sure she was bouncing her kids on her knee whilst knitting them a nice Arran cardie and sucking on a Werthers original. She's the epitome of motherly love. What's savage Fox? - seeing people lose their jobs, homes and self respect due to this womans policies ? She was the cause of that. Or perhaps whole cities brought to their knees living in shite when the other half of the country lived it up in comparable luxury ? She wreaked havoc on our education system, destroyed local democracy, lifted the mortgage restrictions that caused the housing boom and inevitable crash in 1989 and introduced the world to negative equity. She destroyed unions and industries via the massive unemployment she caused. She also hung this city and fans of it's football club out to dry in 1989 and governed over the lies that hung over dead people and their families for a quarter of a century. So sorry if some of us don't have the same rose-tinted view of the witch as those of you fortunate to have been born and working in the South of this wonderful country.

Savage ? Maybe but if that's the case she was a fucking vampire of the worst kind.

I guess she may have done some positive things over the years.Today was one of those.
 
I have to agree with Vlad, she was what the country needed at that moment in time. I lived in Ireland and can remember the BBC News in the 70's which reported, almost daily, on the latest strike. I would love to know how many working days were lost to strikes in the last few years before Thatcher took the reigns.

The binmen went on strike for weeks and rubbish was piled on the streets, the grave diggers went on strike and bodies were being stacked in morgues, prison officers, postmen, miners, etc, etc.....the country was grinding to a halt.

I'm not going to defend some of her poorer errors of judgement, Hillsborough, Pinochet, the Poll Tax, etc but she was a conviction politician who took tough decisions and wasn't afraid of making enemies BUT she turned Btitain's economy around and she became a pivotal politician in many worldwide events.

I think many on here and other such forums will be disappointed to find out that the majority view of Thatcher will be that; although she made mistakes, overall her tenure was beneficial for this country and for world politics.

In terms of world politics I agree, and I don't care how unfashionable it may be to say so. IMO in foreign and defence matters she was right more often than not.

As far as domestic politics are concerned, I'm less convinced than you that history's overall verdict will be favourable. The changes she instituted probably were necessary, but she took them too far for too long and did corresponding long-term damage in the process.
 
In terms of world politics I agree, and I don't care how unfashionable it may be to say so. IMO in foreign and defence matters she was right more often than not.

As far as domestic politics are concerned, I'm less convinced than you that history's overall verdict will be favourable. The changes she instituted probably were necessary, but she took them too far for too long and did corresponding long-term damage in the process.

A fair summary from JJ.
 
So, can anyone give an outsider a five minute debrief on what she's done to deserve so much hatred?

I'll try to keep this as neutral as possible.

She "took on" the unions that controlled the huge state industries in the 1970's/early 1980s. She won. Huge social and industrial change ensued, with the large industrial areas of Britain being affected the most. You should read independently and draw your own conclusions about why she did it, and whether it was the right thing to do, bearing in mind the situation and the other options available at the time.

She did a number of other things that, according to some theories, liberated people to improve their own existence through their own efforts, which is where, I think, the 'no such thing as society' came from, as people were encouraged to fend for themselves entirely as individuals and not collectively. Most notable of these policies was the sale of council houses at a reduced price to their residents (which was actually devised by Michael Heseltine, who you should read about as he has an interesting political history in relation to Liverpool, ironically).

These measures clearly resonated with the public because she won elections with massive landslide victories. Many, many people gained to do some degree or other. However, even though a smaller number of people lost, they did so to a much greater degree, so one has to judge her in that context, was the pain worth the gain on a national level?

What you should also do is try to avoid blaming her for things being as they are now because she left power in 1990, and the Conservatives in 1997, so we've had a long time to repair the mistakes that were made. On that note, you should pay attention to that fact that none (that I can recall) of her major policies were ever reversed (I'm more than happy to be corrected on this) and to this day, Labour are very careful to keep the unions at arm's length because of the collective memory the country has of the time before Thatcher came to power.
 
For 20 odd years she was responsible, in collusion with the South Yorkshire Police, for blackening the name of the 96 dead, the survivors, LFC and indeed the people of Liverpool in general. Her and that fat fuck PR guy Ingham.

I dont think anyone should rejoice in the death of another, lets face it, its going to happen to us all sooner or later.

But I wont lose any sleep over her departure.
 
She despised Liverpool and would have cut us off the map and floated us into the Irish Sea if she could.

Although I often hear that said, I have never seen one iota of evidence that Thatcher felt that way about Liverpool. In fact, in 1982 after the Toxteth Riots, she sent Michael Heseltine up here to set up the Merseyside Development Corporation with a budget of some £500 million. No other Northern city received that sort of treatment.
 
Posh boy Fox telling us to shut up. Get your butler to write a letter of complaint to the 6CM management.

Prob already has. Is fox actually posh? Or just one of them cunts that acts posh but isn't? Like a wool. A political and social wool?
 
Although I often hear that said, I have never seen one iota of evidence that Thatcher felt that way about Liverpool. In fact, in 1982 after the Toxteth Riots, she sent Michael Heseltine up here to set up the Merseyside Development Corporation with a budget of some £500 million. No other Northern city received that sort of treatment.

And the point is? If you need your city developed start a riot?
 
People in Sheffield won't have given a fuck that there was 23 increase in GDP or increases in the median wage though will they ? Median wage counts for shit when you don't earn a wage. They will have given a shit that they struggled to feed and clothe their families.

They didn't earn a wage before: living off an unsustainable, loss-making, nationalised industry is just a glorified life on benefits.
 
Incidently no post in the Football Forum for nearly 2 hours...

Someone must of died or something..

er... oh....
 
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