To disown dd2...

[lambethlil]

Who just said listening to the radio, 'What a lovely voice, is she a poet?'
Margaret Thatcher

Em, how old is she? If she's young, can we give her the benefit of the doubt?!

She is winding you up!

Maggie Thhhhhaaaaaaaatcherrrr Magggieee Thaaaaaaattttchherrrrr We'll support you ever more, ever moooooreeeeeeeeeeeeee, We'll supp pppporr or orttt youuu everrrrr moreeeeeeee

I am old... And I clearly remember being 5 years old and MT getting into power and thinking how great it was that a woman was in charge of the country. My DM is a huge feminist and I couldn't work out why she was pissed off.

Don't worry, I learned. There is hope for DD2.

She's 13. It's all my fault. First I stopped boycotting Nestlé, and dh is thinking of getting Sky, children notice these things!

I don't think there was/is anything wrong with her voice

anyway, she can't help what she sounds like!

Oh, by the end, her voice was a weird parody

But I don't think anyone should have made a film about someone who is alive and suffering from dementia, even though I truly believe lots of society's ill stem from her time in power

feminine she could help her voice- she had training to get that 'little woman, iron fist in a velvet glove' voice.

She did indeed.

I remember that evil old hag getting into power when I was 9. Never liked her then and never will.

I have been sure to educate both my children about the horrors of MT. Even ds2 who is 7 knows all about her and sought to pass on the info to one of the children in his class a few months ago......that child ended up in tears!

I have done my job well

Well done!

Dd could name a fair few of the cabinet in 1998 and knew to hiss if IDS, Hague, Thatcher or Major came on the telly. She gets to vote next year and can't wait.

YANBU

Teen pregnancy-fine, drugs-fine, shop lifting-fine, supporting MT in any shape or form-not ok

.....anyone mindful of what's happening in Greece and the warnings she issued .

Our dd did a school project on a heroine. She chose Maggie Thatcher - we didn't influence her. But we were very proud, esp when she got a L7 for it in Y7 - we think her teacher overcame her prejudices . Her teacher asked why she chose her and she said "because I'm from a very Conservative family". Preens . Her father's contemplating standing for UKIP

Non British here and too young to really know (or remember???)
Tell me her worst bits??? (so I can get just as worked up??)

I'm good at warnings too. I predicted Black Monday and subsequent financial collapses. Sadly no one listened to me in 1986/87 but then I was 17.

She decimated (at the very least) our country's economy and industry.

I'll adopt her if you disown her!

Now I don't normally post anything political because... well, because I like to keep things pleasant, but...

Has anyone been watching the series on the seventies? Does anyone remember how bloody awful things were? Is anybody really surprised that Maggie was voted in with what was going on under the other side? She rescued this country before she went a little bit power crazy.

Rhonda she's definitely a keeper! To be fair she was mortified when she realised who it was and she was talking about music and poetry on the radio...
Funnily enough I had been thinking how lucky I was to grow up in the early 70s. Walking to school, real cohesion with everyone watching the same tv, much much less social pressure and materialism. No Facebook, better weather.

You are right, the weather was better in the 70's. Oh where have we gone wrong?

Lambeth I don't think Maggie can be blamed for the advent of technology.

And as I remember it, she had nothing to do with the endless strikes, the endless power cuts, the endless rubbish on the streets, the endless selfishness that caused a social meltdown...

Not sure she made the weather bad though :o