Forgive me while I get my dancing shoes on (merged )

[Martyn]

Good to see some folk showing humanity no matter your political slant is

Like the humanity she showed to the Argentinian sailors on the Belgrano who were obeying the instruction to sail out of the exclusion zone?

[hector]

Like the humanity she showed to the Argentinian sailors on the Belgrano who were obeying the instruction to sail out of the exclusion zone?

Were you there?

[gessa]

Personally I think Callaghan,Major and Brown were worse Prime Ministers but that's just my opinion.
Spent a few hours in conversation with her daughter once, who was a thoroughly nice lady but it became apparent during the conversation that there was no love lost between mother and daughter.

[Martyn]

Were you there?

No, but a cousin was. I have spoken to him at length about the Falklands.

[Emsley]

Go on guild give em it!

[hector]

No, but a cousin was. I have spoken to him at length about the Falklands.

Ah I see.

[Martyn]

Anyway, this is about far more than the Falklands, whatever the rights and wrongs of that sorry state of affairs.

It's about the miner's strike and the politicisation of the police, it's about support for Pinochet and Apartheid, it's about destroying the lives of countless people in towns throughout the north of England, Scotland and wales. Its about the poll tax.

It's about her evil legacy.

[Chester]

It shows what differing views are being thrown up. This afternoon I was listening to a phone in on Radio 2 and an ex Falklands soldier rang up and broke down in tears whilst discussion the death of Margaret Thatcher.

[Durly]

I've said this elsewhere a couple of times today but - much as I hated Thatcher (and I did - with no reservations), I find it very difficult to celebrate her death. An 87 year old woman who had long since fallen deep into dementia. I can't rejoice at that. For me, she "got hers" when she was stabbed in the back by her own party in 1990. I rejoiced then, seeing her fighting back the tears and knowing that the very people she had trusted had conspired to oust her from her position. She felt that more severely than anything else and never, ever forgave the people who had shafted her..........and I loved every minute.

[Martyn]

I've said this elsewhere a couple of times today but - much as I hated Thatcher (and I did - with no reservations), I find it very difficult to celebrate her death. An 87 year old woman who had long since fallen deep into dementia. I can't rejoice at that. For me, she "got hers" when she was stabbed in the back by her own party in 1990. I rejoiced then, seeing her fighting back the tears and knowing that the very people she had trusted had conspired to oust her from her position. She felt that more severely than anything else and never, ever forgave the people who had shafted her..........and I loved every minute.

That was, indeed, a glorious day.

[CSA]

I seem to remember people celebrating the deaths of Osama bin Laden, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.

Just sayin'

And you have no problem mentioning her in the same crowd as that lot,whatever your politics shame on you.

[Chester]

Exactly CSA..

Have we all forgotten what good she did...

right to buy and the recasting of social housing as housing for those with a particualr need

vast increase in the number of people in the population who owned shares via the gas and electric privatisations and the Building societies that changed to banks ( e.g. halifax and abbey)

sought inwards investment in manufacturing e.g. Nissan in Washington T+W , toyota in derby and Honda in Swindon

EU opt outs , vetos and contribution remission

reform of employment law to stop the Unions holding the nation to ransom

[Martyn]

Exactly CSA..

Have we all forgotten what good she did...

right to buy and the recasting of social housing as housing for those with a particualr need

vast increase in the number of people in the population who owned shares via the gas and electric privatisations and the Building societies that changed to banks ( e.g. halifax and abbey)

sought inwards investment in manufacturing e.g. Nissan in Washington T+W , toyota in derby and Honda in Swindon

EU opt outs , vetos and contribution remission

reform of employment law to stop the Unions holding the nation to ransom

Love it. "Right to buy" was a cheap vote-buying exercise which, by decimating the social housing stock caused people who would have been council house tenants to be housed in privately rented properties and, as a consequence, caused the problem we have now of vast housing benefits. All the glories of Thatcherism!

[Chester]

Guildford White clearly has no problem in mentioning Osama bin Laden, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein in the same breath as Margaret Thatcher.
I can't believe I'm posting on a board with someone who has those views. As a result I can't continue to post here.

[CSA]

Exactly CSA..

Have we all forgotten what good she did...

right to buy and the recasting of social housing as housing for those with a particualr need

vast increase in the number of people in the population who owned shares via the gas and electric privatisations and the Building societies that changed to banks ( e.g. halifax and abbey)

sought inwards investment in manufacturing e.g. Nissan in Washington T+W , toyota in derby and Honda in Swindon

EU opt outs , vetos and contribution remission

reform of employment law to stop the Unions holding the nation to ransom

For every worthy hard working Trade unionist, there are those Union Leaders whose behaviour was every bit as culpable, sometimes it makes me really wonder who destroyed the Unions

[CSA]

Guildford White clearly has no problem in mentioning Osama bin Laden, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein in the same breath as Margaret Thatcher.
I can't believe I'm posting on a board with someone who has those views. As a result I can't continue to post here.

It's just a knee jerk Trotsyist View, said in haste, that should in all honesty be retracted.

[Martyn]

It's just a knee jerk Trotsyist View, said in haste, that should in all honesty be retracted.

Trotskyist!

[CSA]

Trotskyist!

Once again without explanation you revert to infantile giggling fits, it does you no justice, do tell, what exactly are your politics because you are giving out some strange vibes mate, alluring that if we mourn the passing of Thatcher we should mourn Bin Laden equally, just asking like

[Martyn]

Guildford White clearly has no problem in mentioning Osama bin Laden, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein in the same breath as Margaret Thatcher.

You're right - I despise them all equally.

[Martyn]

You're right - I despise them all equally.

And I could add Tony Blair and George W Bush to that list too.