To think that these T-shirts are disgusting?

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Whatever you may think of her, this is hardly in good taste is it? It just makes the unions look bad to have this sort of thing on sale at their conference. Can you imagine the CBI having T-shirts looking forward to the deaths of Tony Benn, or Shirley Williams, on sale at their conference?

Will there be Bupcakes?

"I'm alright jack" has nothing to do with it. Willingness to adapt to a changing world is the point. Those that were, prospered. Those that weren't, suffered.

They were willing to go down mines, generation after generation even though it was dangerous and hard. Willing to work in shipyards and mills and get dirty and ill for the economy. Maybe that counts for something as well.

BTW where were all these jobs? I know there weren't any in the North Welsh village my GF lived in. Thankfully there was the Navy for the Scottish relations. Going to the Falklands was a walk in the park compared to the mines.

I come from a working class northern family and have no particular affection for her but I think that it is appalling. I would not want to have anything to do with anyone who condones these type of t-shirts.
To talk about dancing on anyone's grave (except perhaps murderers,rapists and paedophiles) is astonishingly vile and disgusting. Celebrating the death of a person is wrong.

"To talk about dancing on anyone's grave (except perhaps murderers,rapists and paedophiles) is astonishingly vile and disgusting. Celebrating the death of a person is wrong. "

Contradicting yourself a little there.

And where do I buy??
As someone from south Yorkshire and saw the awful time of the 80's I'm gobsmacked that not many here in the SE knows the reality of what it was like!

I too have champers and dancing shoes at the ready, and will celebrate that day for my dear dad who is not here anymore

'changing world'?

is that one where councils were encouraged to sell houses to tenants, and then prevented from using the profits to build new ones?

yup, as long as those making money carried on making money, then fuck the rest of you

Maybe no bupcakes but champagne. Lots of it.

Labour councils didn't want to build new council houses. They didn't want the responsibility of managing them. Which is why hardly any were built under Labour. There was nothing stopping them from building new ones even in the 80s.

I think that is splitting hairs a little. I meant that I could understand someone who has been affected by those sort of criminals being glad that they have died but not by the death of a politician. It's just nasty.

they had no funds to build them

Northernmonkey, if Thatcher was so bad, how come you grew up under her government but can now afford to live in the southeast and drink champagne? Do you not think the changes she made to the country allowed you the freedom to get on in life?

I'll get the flags out for sure!

I grew up in a house where someone still at school was expected to pay poll tax meaning 3 lots from a two bed council house where the landed gentry up the road in acres of land and a mansion paid one lot.

The fact the Scots had to be guinea pigs pay long before anyone else was scandalous.

What was it like then northernmonkey? Genuine question.

I feel like I must be missing something big in the whole story, because I know the basics, but I honestly don't understand the extreme level of vitriol that is aimed at this women.

Clearly whoever made these tshirts have gone for the wrong product. Bunting is going to be the more popular item.

Outraged do you remember all the people sleeping on the streets? Even in London, that can't have passed you by.

They will be back soon, so everyone's memory will be jogged about how bad it got.

spaniel shhhh I'm designing bunting right now, I see a great business opportunity

I grew up in London as a child of the eighties. I remember seeing homeless people, but no more than I see now.

I remember Spitting Image more than anything else!

So has anyone found a mail order link yet, then?

vile woman, many people have parties planed.

It's Wrong to celebrate death no one deserves that or all justice and humanity is degraded by it.

Sad sad state of affairs.

Im originally s.yorkshiere btw a mining village.

I am from Derbyshire staffs border. I can remember extreme levels of poverty at school, sharing textbooks, my dad, a highly qualified site manager, working as a caretaker, friends dads who were miners on strike. I was a teenager. Has no-one ever seen boys from the blackstuff? Well it is very true to that time.

Oh OK, OK. I suppose she did take that rancid school milk away. Even Voldemort probably stroked a kitten once.

You remember wrong Outraged. I work in homelessness and there are vastly less rough sleepers now than there were at the end of the 80s. It fell steadily into the 90s. Fans of the Tories will be pleased to know it has jumped significantly now with a 1/5 more rough sleepers in a year. Good job, we were looking like wimps... housing people and dealing with drugs, DV, MH and the like.

Perhaps people who are that offended by celebrating somebody's death should campaign to stop the celebration of bonfire night.