to not shed a single tear?

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BBC saying that Thatcher has died following a stroke

Hahaha. Well clearly the poster was upset that only Mussolini gets credit for making the trains run on time.

She was someone's mother: yes, the mother of an arms dealer and a casual racist.

I am pleased that she lived long enough for the truth to come out about Hillsborough, I don't care whose bored by that. It meant a lot to the whole City of Liverpool as well as those caught up in the tragedy. I lived through the 80's, don't remember her giving any regard for other people's Mother's, or anyone below middle class. Without these injustices happening, then we wouldn't have the much needed changes in Law, such as the S Lawrence case brought.

What a ridiculous post.

The changes to the disability benefits begin today in some areas (all in the North, I believe).

Much more deserving of our attention.

YANBU.

The world is a better place today.

"don't remember her giving any regard for other people's Mother's, or anyone below middle class."

That is clearly bollocks, she was a grocer's daughter FFS and under her the working class (if only in the south) became richer than ever before and got to own their own homes.

I can see why many dislike her but it is ridiculous to suggest she was a PM for the elite.

The one thing I don't get about Hitler is - he didn't wake up one day and decide that he hated all Jews.

This was a hatred that was pour into him his whole life, by society and the people around him. Propaganda is an extremely powerful thing.

Yes he was evil and there will never be an excuse.

But anyway this isn't even related to this vile thread.

She hasn't been in power for 23 years. Some of you are holding a grudge for that long. Pathetic - get over it.

No leader is ever perfect.

Have some respect and decency.

The Iron lady has had no power for 20 years, she has been ill and suffering from dementia for the last 10.

In effect all that has happened is an old lady has died. Nothing will change by it so Baroozer why is the world a better place today?

Some of you along with George Galloway should hang your heads in shame. No one is asking for you to shed tears or mourn but to have joy in someone's death is distasteful.

The world is a better place today.

Yes, because we are without one more senile, incontinent pensioner who couldn't recognise her own kids

what does it matter that mrs thatcher was 'someone's mother, daughter, etc'? she had no regard for other people's mothers daughters etc. she appeared to have little regard for her own mother and only admired her father.

Whatever she did or not, and whether you liked it or not she was a mother a wife and I hope when your mothers die nobody says the same to you....

Some of you are vile....

I really don't get it.. honestly I don't she did her job, a bloody hard one, she was a strong confident woman at the top of her game.

Love her politics or loathe them, there should be respect for an old lady who has died rather than this vitriol

The world is a better place today because an unpleasant, unkind person is no longer alive. I tend to think that the world is better whenever someone like that dies.

I expect someone who was decent and didn't shaft whole sections of society has died today as well. That makes the world slightly worse, but no one is expecting anyone outside their family and friends to shed tears. That is why the OP is NBU.

Because Creighton, one of the reasons she's often lambasted on these threads is due to the lack of compassion she apparently showed to some elements of society when she was in power. By refusing to acknowledge that there is a family circle grieving for her you're doing the exact same thing.

she was the wife of a racist who did business with apartheid south africa and brought up two useless children, one of whom should be in jail for taking part in an attempted coup in another country.

some mother, some wife.

What a shitty thread to start, I wish I could think of a more eloquent way to put it but words fail me when I see threads like this, - gleeful over someone's death.

"Domin", the selling off of Council Houses didn't benefit the WC, it gave a false sense of prosperity, then unemployment hit and those homes were lost, also taken to pay for Nursing Care and the South may have prospered but the North fell into deep poverty. The whole spending bill wasn't cut, but the ordinary people didn't benefit.

the craicdealer, the fact that her family and friends have the same rancid ideas and beliefs as her mean that people do not have to show them respect. they have none for the rest of us.

i personally don't feel any happiness at her death, but at the same time, i feel no reason to show her any respect.

Really? Do you know them all personally then, every single one?

do you think she would be friends with people who had differing views from her? really?

I don't know, I didn't know her when she was compos mentis. I'm not going to make assumptions based on my own prejudices.

Given that she counted Jimmy Saville and Jeffrey Archer as her close friends, I couldn't give two tosses what her friends think.

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I am surprised at the level of "ceremony" in her funeral. You were right.

Love it or loathe it, she left a legacy.

For some that is the deep and painful scar of job losses and pit closures, for others it is policy that transformed the country, bringing home ownership to thousands and free market principles to the economy.

But anyone celebrating the death of a human being is pretty vile in my eyes.