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well, i've always deferred to :if you don't have anything nice to say...
Thoughts?
As far as I'm concerned, she can rot in ...
well, i've always deferred to :if you don't have anything nice to say...
Thought she was already dead tbh
Of course you do!
I'm guessing much rejoicing in UK today. Lived a pretty long life.
In first with Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day
Couldn't pass up the opportunity to express how I feel about that ... but yeah, should've probably taken the higher ground.
Wow, what'd she do to you?
As you may recall, under Margaret Thatcher England and Argentina went to war. Sore feelings might be understandable on both sides.
ELNono might have other reasons, but that would be my first guess . . .
Exactly the same is true of Thatcher. There's something distinctively creepy - in a Roman sort of way - about this mandated ritual that our political leaders must be heralded and consecrated as saints upon death. This is accomplished by this baseless moral precept that it is gauche or worse to balance the gushing praise for them upon death with valid criticisms. There is absolutely nothing wrong with loathing Margaret Thatcher or any other person with political influence and power based upon perceived bad acts, and that doesn't change simply because they die. If anything, it becomes more compelling to commemorate those bad acts upon death as the only antidote against a society erecting a false and jingoistically self-serving history.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...eath-etiquette
Same will be true of Iraq war criminals dubya, head, rummy, rice, feith, wolfowitz, libby, etc, etc. Dying won't pardon their crimes.
Just like St Ronnie wouldn't have a chance with todays Repug extremists,
Why The Modern Republican Party Would Reject Margaret Thatcher
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...thatcher-dies/
Ah yes.
The Falkland Islands, right? Where Argintina attacked the UK there.
ElNono... Do you support Argentina ion those attacks?
RIP Maggie. Great women are few and far between.
I despise her because she was an iconic figure of far-right politics. Whenever Fidel decides to die (an iconic figure of the far-left), he can too rot in as far as I'm concerned.
She governed by dividing. Some people will say she was unwavering and willful, but she was stubborn as a mule. She talked to people like they were toddlers, and I just have a serious problem with supremely arrogant people like her. The poll tax was both the epitome of who she was and her political downfall.
As far as the Falklands, I hope every psychopath general that thought going to war against the UK will also go to (if they're not already there) and keep her company. She definitely was part of the problem, not the solution. The sinking of the Belgrano, which ended up being half of the Argie casualties in the conflict, was a cowardly act carried out in the war-exclusion zone. After that incident, she became the same war criminal as the generals she was fighting against.
My thoughts and prayers are with Tony Stark as he grieves the loss of his lady.
you're not alone by any means, in regards to your antipathy:
http://www.independent.ie/world-news...-29182097.html
Still single, eh?
Well seriously...any idiot could see that was going to end badly for Argentina.
Not that it's part of this thread, but yes. Single by choice. I find a play thing every now and then, but I haven't yet found someone I want to share my future with.
Iconic, yes. But to compare with someone like Castro...
Were you aware of politics when Reagan, Gorbachev, and Thatcher had their talks?
What future tbh?
GDP and public spending
by functional classification % change in real terms
1979/80 to 1989/90
GDP +23.3
Total government spending +12.9
Law and order +53.3
Employment and training +33.3
Health +31.8
Social security +31.8
Transport −5.8
Trade and industry −38.2
Housing −67.0
Defence −3.3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...r#cite_note-85
Michael Hudson: Thatcher’s Legacy of Failed Privatizations
The Conservatives sold off public monopolies, used the proceeds to cut taxes, and put the privatized firms on a profit-making basis. Their stock prices rose sharply, making capital gains for investors whose ranks included millions of Britons who had been employees and/or customers of these enterprises.
Yet by 1997 the Conservatives were voted out of office by one of the largest margins in their history. What concerned voters were the results of privatization that Mrs. Thatcher had not warned them about. Prices did not decline proportionally to cost cuts and productivity gains. Many services were cut back, especially on the least utilized transport routes. The largest privatized bus company was charged with cut-throat monopoly practices. The water system broke down, while consumer charges leapt. Electricity prices were shifted against residential consumers in favor of large industrial users. Economic inequality widened as the industrial labor force shrunk by two million from 1979 to 1997, while wages stagnated in the face of soaring profits for the privatized companies. The tax cuts financed by their selloff turned out to benefit mainly the rich.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04
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