Maggie Thatcher is a 'conviction politician'

[EffiePerine]

Eh?

This puzzles me on many, many levels

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6993269.stm

My FIL uses a picture of her face on his dartboard.

she 'saw the need for change' and bolloxed it up big time.

Well, I think it is fair to say that she was a conviction politician. It's just fantastically irritating and depressing to see Labour prime ministers being so desperate to lick her shrivelled little arse.

Can't decide whether it was an inspired typo or an attempt by GB to spout crap display an innovative command of the English Language a la TB

obviously she was just hated by all normal intelligent people misunderstood at the time

lol

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so you should you slacker

Of couse, Cat, I'd be delighted to help.

Okay so how do you do the crossing out thing? Just tried and failed.

Hb - I'll try to help not

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Thanks!!

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knew I could never rely on you!

You can rely on me, Cat

honest

It just means she really believed in what she did, surely? Don't agree with it, but I've no reason to think she wasn't acting on strongly held conviction(don't see why else you would do a lot of what she did otherwise, tbh)

Nothing wrong with it at all. Plenty of Tories with convictions. Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitken, Neil Hamilton...

arf

suppose 'convicted politician' would have a different spin

so glad the noun + noun hasn't gone out with TB. Sure the verb free sentences will be back soon as well.

UQD - What was Hamilton convicted of?

I was gonna do that one. Pipped at the post by UQD.

SueBaroo, it just rankles to see a Labour PM coming out with it as a measure of respect. I'm sure many of the worlds dictators (being restrained with my language here) 'really believed' in what they did. [flippant emoticon]

Funny that, how both TB AND GB are seen fit to affiliate themselves with Maggie, however tenuously.

have not are (obviously)