Margaret Thatcher's in hospital,Is this the beginning of the end? How will you mark the day? Black arm band or party 7.

[Cowwomanmoo]

After looking at the news about Mr T I found my self on wikiquote.

Classic:

In an interview with George Negus for the Australian TV program 60 minutes, the following exchange occurred:
Negus: Why do people stop us in the street almost and tell us that Margaret Thatcher isn't just inflexible, she's not just single-minded, on occasions she't plain pig-headed and won't be told by anybody?
Thatcher: Would you tell me who has stopped you in the street and said that?
Negus: Ordinary Britons...
Thatcher: Where?
Negus: In conversation, in pubs...
Thatcher (interrupting): I thought you'd just come from Belize
Negus: Oh this is not the first time we've been here.
Thatcher: Will you well me who, and where and when.
Negus: Ordinary Britons in restaurants and cabs
Thatcher: How many?
Negus: ...in cabs
Thatcher: How many?
Negus:I would say at least one in two
Thatcher:Why won't you tell me their names and who they are?

exactly edam, god forbid that we should empathise or try to help others. if you want something (like maybe to eat) you can bloody well do it yourself. ruthlessness was rewarded and compassion reviled.

i remember my dad , in the car on the way to school in the late 70's /early 80s teaching us and reminding us to chant 'Margaret thatcher's a milk snatcher!'

i remember doing it too!

i don;t wish her dead, that would be a bit much, and she has only broken her arm...

anyway, i agree with aitch and edam, not read everything they have posted, but i usually agree with them !

(resists temptation to post something really outrageous that Lulumama would NOT support...)

g'waaaaaaaaaaaan !! you know you want to !

AND she had a caesarean!

she did have twins though!!
but i'd be prepared to label her too posh to push

lol

I can't imagine her having sex...perhaps they sprang fully formed from Dennis's loins? That would be more Thatcherite efficiency surely?

I have a long standing date with a friend who I don't see that much to meet up outside downing street or in trafalgar square to join in the happy throngs of like minded people.

Lulu, if you like 4x4s I could post that everyone who drives them is aiming to take out my poor innocent little pedestrian ds... um, where do you stand on breast v. bottle? Ooh ooh, I could say state education is for dummies and MY little angel will be going private to avoid the oiks?

(disclaimer for people who don't read the whole thread - this is a JOKE, OK?)

Edam, I think John Major deserves some credit for getting the peace process rolling, if I remember it was his initiative that the labour govt carried on that led to the conclusion in N.I.
Kimi, if you are still reading this. You talk about being cost effective to mine saying it would be uneconomic etc. But what about all the money that the govt has pumped into the banking sector in the past six months, the car industry and so on? Why did the govt bother with them? It could if it wanted get the mines up and running again and one say they will. Economics and the high priuce of coal will ensure it. All I am saying now is that what would you rather have a resource of your own (Coal) or do you want to rely on Putin and tyhe rest of the Russians and be at their mercy? I know what I would prefer.

i think the only people you can give credit to for the peace process working is the northern irish themselves. it annoys me how politicians take credit for this.

What a horrible, vicious thread.

oh get over yourselves, she was evil.

if people did well out of her policies and selfishly chose to ignore the damage she was doing, they're in no position to lecture now about how we should be nice to little old ladies.

I always thinks it's strange that she seems to be so utterly reviled and yet no subsequent governement has ever reversed any of her key policies.

This again.

There was a Thatcher funeral thread last year. I think it was one of the many which contributed to my decision to leave.

If people realy think she was "evil" surely the way to counter that is not to be spiteful in return, to show how much better than her you are.

She's an old biddy in hospital and someone's grandma. Get over it.

Hitler was "evil". To describe Maggie as that is ridiculous. Whilst accepting that she could have done many things differently and with a lot more consideration, I shudder to think what this country would be like without her massive reforms.

lot's of people think she was evil...they're entitled to that opinion...her own party couldn't wait to get rid of her in the end..

Sure they are, and I'm entitled to my view that to describe her as "evil" is absurd.

Whether or not her own party wanted to be rid of her is immaterial (Gordon Brown anyone?)

gordon brown was still PM last time i looked..with the labour party backing him

If you want "evil", look at the BNP. Thatcher was a right-wing free-market monetarist. That's a legitimate political position with which you can take issue (and indeed I have).

Agree with UQD.

Daftpunk, they're only supporting him because they don't want to face a general election and lose their seats. How many ministers have resigned - 6 / 7? In any event, the question of support from your own party is irrelevant to the judgement of whether or not a leader is "evil".

maybe she wasn't evil in the sense that hitler was evil......she didn't line people up against the wall and shot them...she was a bit more subtle.