Margaret Thatcher

[jaysay]

Nothing to say really as people already know what I think, so this will be my first and last post on this thread, its just a pity we haven't somebody around today, with the bottle she had, we certainly wouldn't be kowtowing down to Europe like we are today.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by susie123

If you think that, isn't it a good enough reason for hating her - after all she did a lot of damage to this country, some of which becomes more apparent as time goes on.

No Sue....I won't waste my time hating her...if it can't change anything it is worthless.
And the outpouring of bile is disrespectful to the family.

[cashman]

Why is respect warranted the son should have been jailed long ago fer his shenanigans in africa.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Cashy, that is not the issue here....it is respect for the whole family who are grieving regardless of their past.
It isn't about what he has done or what he hasn't done, it is about the loss a family are grieving for.
They have lost a mother...and you only ever have one of those...and however bad they are....you still have lost.
I cannot explain it any better than that.
Her life has to be about more than the 11 years she was in office.......but, that is just how I see it.
My mother is almost the same age and I know how I would feel if she were to die tomorrow......perhaps some of you cannot empathise with this.

[susie123]

Surely Margaret you can't expect a thread titled Margaret Thatcher to stick to the RIPs?

[maxthecollie]

Rot in pieces

[westendlass]

I've noticed most of the 'fond' memories and grief tourists interviewed seem to be from down south. I think people up north will have a different angle on the Thatcher years. I remember them only too well.

[lindsay ormerod]

Noticed that she lived out her final 3+ months in the luxury of the Ritz Hotel ( at the invitation of the owners apparently), not the usual dismal residential home or hospital ward. Wonder what favours got that one in return.....

( having lost my dad last week I have sympathy for her family, none for her)

[cashman]

All i can say wi honesty, very very few people in me 65 yrs i have ever hated, disliked a fair few but not hated, Thatcher is one of that category.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by cashman

All i can say wi honesty, very very few people in me 65 yrs i have ever hated, disliked a fair few but not hated, Thatcher is one of that category.

Here's a curveball for you Mr c

Without Thatchers influence and Privatisation policies, Walker's Steel would never have been sold to a nationalised steel industry as opposed to British Steel in 1989 for squillions of £'s
Without Thatchers indirect influence Uncle Jack would never have had the spondulicks to finance t'Rovers and their success long gone that it is

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

Here's a curveball for you Mr c

Without Thatchers influence and Privatisation policies, Walker's Steel would never have been sold to a nationalised steel industry as opposed to British Steel in 1989 for squillions of £'s
Without Thatchers indirect influence Uncle Jack would never have had the spondulicks to finance t'Rovers and their success long gone that it is

...and why should Cashy care about this?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by susie123

Surely Margaret you can't expect a thread titled Margaret Thatcher to stick to the RIPs?

Sue, where have I said that?
She polarised opinion in her lifetime so it isn't strange that it continues on her demise...but does that make it right?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

Noticed that she lived out her final 3+ months in the luxury of the Ritz Hotel ( at the invitation of the owners apparently), not the usual dismal residential home or hospital ward. Wonder what favours got that one in return.....

( having lost my dad last week I have sympathy for her family, none for her)

Lindsay, she doesn't need your sympathy...and if you were given a choice of living in the Ritz..or a care home, for either yourself or a member of your family...what would you choose.......and whatever favours were received is quite irrelevant now.
Sympathy for the family is all that is required. It seems like it is acceptable these days to malign the dead.(not that it worries them)

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Lindsay, she doesn't need your sympathy...and if you were given a choice of living in the Ritz..or a care home, for either yourself or a member of your family...what would you choose.......and whatever favours were received is quite irrelevant now.
Sympathy for the family is all that is required. It seems like it is acceptable these days to malign the dead.(not that it worries them)

They'll have a field day when I pop mi clogs then Margaret, am I bovered

[cashman]

Originally Posted by jaysay

They'll have a field day when I pop mi clogs then Margaret, am I bovered

Bullsh1t yer tolerable.