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To think that it's perfectly fine to be pleased someone is dead when they caused such a lot of harm?

503 replies

LoopaDaLoopa · 09/04/2013 09:43

So, all these people saying it is inappropriate to speak ill of the dead are all positive and nice about Pol Pot are they? Stalin? Hitler?

Just because someone dies does not make them a nice person.

And did you feel sorry for Saddam Hussain's family? Or did it not cross your mind?

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herethereandeverywhere · 09/04/2013 13:10

LaQueen "I don't give a toss, what these people suffered."

Yep, that sounds just like Thatcherism.

Booyhoo · 09/04/2013 13:15

"Surely the reason why some tasteless people are having parties is down to MT's policies isn't it custardo?"

you mean she made them have parties?

i think it's more down to the fact they chose to party. lots of people were affected by her policies and aren't partying.

ppeatfruit · 09/04/2013 13:19

I said "some" people Booyhoo

LessMissAbs · 09/04/2013 13:23

ppfruit Brainwashing? I was there at the time Abs You don't think she had anything to do with deregulation? (she asks politely)

Funnily enough, I was there at the time too.

The trouble is, I just don't find you very plausible.

Booyhoo · 09/04/2013 13:25

that is exactly my point PPeatfruit

if the partying was down to her policies then everyone affected by them would be partying. they partying is a choice they have made because that is they sort of people they are, her policies aren't to blame for people lacking emotional maturity.

LessMissAbs · 09/04/2013 13:25

Surely the reason why some tasteless people are having parties is down to MT's policies isn't it custardo?

you mean she made them have parties?

I am sure Mrs Thatcher has been accused of a lot of things over the years, but making people have parties must surely be a new one!

TheCraicDealer · 09/04/2013 13:26

her policies aren't to blame for people lacking emotional maturity < YY to this.

DoctorAnge · 09/04/2013 13:28

Completely agree with LaQueen

stressyBessy22 · 09/04/2013 13:31

yanbu. She was an evil bitch.i celebrate her death and dance on her grave.

Booyhoo · 09/04/2013 13:34

well, really you wont dance on her grave now will you? silly fool.

stressyBessy22 · 09/04/2013 13:37

look up 'metaphor'. Silly fool yourself Wink

FasterStronger · 09/04/2013 13:41

she lost power in 1990.

anyone is still blaming her for their own situation, might benefit from getting over it.

DoctorAnge · 09/04/2013 13:43

The level of a mind still blaming her for their own shortcomings my God...

Ditzydit · 09/04/2013 13:44

The Labour Party's very own T Blair was responsible for many more deaths than poor old Mrs T. Some of the sad bitter people 'dancing on her grave' are just saying a lot about themselves.

Booyhoo · 09/04/2013 13:47

a metaphor for what? what are you going to do that you describe as dancing on her grave? Confused

FrameyMcFrame · 09/04/2013 13:51

BUT SHE REJOICED

At the deaths of Argentinian servicemen

At the deaths of Irish Hunger strikers

At the deaths of villages, communities, families destroyed in the mining and industry strikes.

Go and read YOUR history.

People either have short memories, or they live in a vaccuum unaware of what goes on around them

TheCraicDealer · 09/04/2013 13:51

Felling smug that she's outlived an 87 year old with Alzheimers, I expect.

kungfupannda · 09/04/2013 13:54

I am getting so bored with this "she did this" and "she did that" crap.

It's simplistic and juvenile.

The government at the time did these things. Yes, she was a part of that, and a big part, but unless people are going to dance on the grave of every single member of the cabinet of the time, and every MP who endorsed any of her decisions, and every subsequent cabinet member who had an opportunity to reverse anything they disagreed with and chose not to do so, then it is abundantly clear that there is something else going on here.

She's a woman who dared to be elected at a difficult time and dared not to be the perfect, all-embracing matriarch of abundancy and fertility. History might not have been much more forgiving of a male leader, but I strongly suspect that the rhetoric right now would be very different.

"Ding dong the witch is dead"? Oh please. Society has been calling women witches for centuries, whenever a scapegoat was needed. Yes, as a man she would still have come in for criticism, but I do not for one moment believe that there would be this level of hysteria. She was memorable for many reasons, not all of them being the right ones, but the fact that she was the only woman leader is part of it.

I am from an old Tyneside ship-building/merchant-navy family. What happened there, in my lifetime was a tragedy. But I don't need a scapegoat for it. I don't need a Guy Fawkes to burn or a bogeyman to tell my children about - what happened to the north-east ship-builders happened, and it wasn't down to one super-human woman.

FrameyMcFrame · 09/04/2013 13:54

Thatcher's rejoice speech

Even her defence secretary was embarrassed at how gung ho she was

LessMissAbs · 09/04/2013 13:54

BUT SHE REJOICED

At the deaths etc

Go and read YOUR history

Obviously a rather unorthodox, but extremely exciting history! Perhaps one based on the style of biblical passages from two thousand years ago? Not at all unbiased then?

Sounds fab!

DoctorAnge · 09/04/2013 13:54

Your the on in the vacuum!

Will you rejoice when Tony Blair dies too?

FrameyMcFrame · 09/04/2013 13:55

Not a list, just the fact that she rejoiced in other people's pain.

FrameyMcFrame · 09/04/2013 13:56

Yes because he is a murdering bastard too

FrameyMcFrame · 09/04/2013 13:56

There are people trying to arrest him for war crimes every time he appears in public

FrameyMcFrame · 09/04/2013 13:58

What she did for Irish relations with the UK is enough reason to want to dance on her grave alone.

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