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maggie thatcher. yes or no

96 replies

southeastastra · 19/01/2008 21:21

no myself

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KrippledKerryMum · 19/01/2008 21:43

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rantinghousewife · 19/01/2008 21:43

Well somebody voted her in and I know I didn't.

donnie · 19/01/2008 21:44

the day she was ousted from number 10 was fabulous.

cornsilk · 19/01/2008 21:44

No

DaphneHarvey · 19/01/2008 21:44

No.

Poll tax.

Contracting out school meals to cheapest possible service provider.

Ditto hospital cleaners.

Selling off social housing at huge discounts and not replacing it resulting in shameful debacle of needy families living in disgusting B&B conditions.

Dame Shirley Porter, and so on.

DrNortherner · 19/01/2008 21:45

No way ho-fucking-se

Habbibu · 19/01/2008 21:45

No. Tea with Pinochet, anyone?

fizzbuzz · 19/01/2008 21:46

Everyone hates her. How come she was in power for so long?

rantinghousewife · 19/01/2008 21:47

Whoosh, maybe you'd like to thank 'Lady' T for the mess she made of the railways amongst other bloody things.

donnie · 19/01/2008 21:47

yes but he passed on handy secrets about the Argies habbibu, so a nice cup of tea was in order, despite the fact he was a mass torturer and dictator. Got a problem with that?!!!

bigmouthstrikesagain · 19/01/2008 21:48

She has been demonised by the left - but she represents everything I hate - American style Neo-liberal economic policy, Privatisation and poll tax and unempoloyment (my dad was on the dole for a couple of years - I still remember the humiliation of free school dinners etc.) and selling off Council Housing - I can still get angry about that period even though I was a child (I was 16 when she got the boot).

So it is a resounding No...

FrannyandZooey · 19/01/2008 21:49

how can you ask?

Rowlers · 19/01/2008 21:49

No.
but...
I have a certain amount of admiration for her ability to take top job in a man's world.
She's the only woman prime minister we've had.
Wonder when / who the next will be?
But power was ultimately her downfall.

fizzbuzz · 19/01/2008 21:50

She looked mad anyway. Remember her during Falklands conflict saying "Rejoice rejoice" at the bombing of some ship.

She looked really scary, sort of overzealous

chocolatespiders · 19/01/2008 21:50

NO

she did apalling with the council housing selling them,- yeah some people got greta deal. but it is now impossible to get council housing

bigmouthstrikesagain · 19/01/2008 21:51

And of course my man Moz - put it well...

Morrissey - Margaret On The Guillotine Lyrics

The kind people
have a wonderful dream
Margaret on the guillotine
because people like you
make me feel so tired
when will you die?
when will you die?
when will you die?
when will you die?
when will you die?
because people like you
make me feel so old inside
please die
and kind people
do not shelter this dream
make it real
make the dream real
make the dream real
make it real
Let The Right One Slip In
Let the right one in
Let the old dreams die
Let the wrong ones go
They cannot
They cannot
They cannot do what you want them to
Oh ...
Let the right one in
Let the old dreams die
Let the wrong ones go
They do not
They do not
They do not see what you want them to
Oh ...
Let the right one in
Let the old things fade
Put the tricks and schemes forward
Away
Ah ... I will advise
Ah ... Until my mouth dries
Ah ... I will advise you to ...
Ah ... let the right one slip in
Slip in
Slip in
And when at last it does
I'd say you were within your rights to write
The right one and say, "what kept you so long?"
"What kept you so long?"
Oh ...

fishie · 19/01/2008 21:51

no. but i see dh hankering for a tory government and i don't think he is alone because many people have forgotten how awful it was.

cottonflee · 19/01/2008 21:53

I hate her and wouldn't piss on her if she was on fire. My dad was a miner.

policywonk · 19/01/2008 21:53

Or, more succintly:

Maggie Maggie Maggie
Out out out
Maggie Maggie Maggie
Out out out
Maggie Maggie Maggie
Out out out
Maggie Maggie Maggie
Out out out
Maggie Maggie Maggie
Maggie Maggie Maggie
Maggie Maggie Maggie
Out out out

rantinghousewife · 19/01/2008 21:54

Or alternatively in Declan Mcmanus' words 'tramp the dirt down'.

Heated · 19/01/2008 21:55

My father knew Neil Kinnock professionally and was therefore an ardent Mrs T voter.

I think anyone with a long tenure makes their mark: Thatcherite years/Blairite years. Can see both the positives & negative achievements of both, but it's easier to recall the bad.

donnie · 19/01/2008 21:55

apparently even the Queen couldn't stand maggie.....not sure what that means though!

Whooosh · 19/01/2008 21:55

Well somebody agreed with me or she wouldn't have been in power as long as she was.......

Would love to know (genuinely as am not a politic follower)how much better/the differences a Major/Blair?Brown changes implemented to make life better for the masses.....

fishie · 19/01/2008 21:56

my mum went on a solidarity visit to nottinghamshire miners and they gave her a guinea pig

FrayedKnot · 19/01/2008 21:56

Did anyone here actually vote in the 1987 election? I was just very slightly too young.

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