Margaret Thatcher is dead...
I thought only the sword Narsil could kill her???
Your turn.
Margaret Thatcher is dead...
The Lady's not returning.
This is pretty accurate, for satire: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/northern-britain-already-hammered-2013040865062
My views on the matter: http://nickthelemming.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/tramp-the-dirt-down/
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Photo from Buenos Aires, Argentina:
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I'm on the fence politically speaking as my family have always been split down the middle, but whichever way you lean - if it wasn't for Maggie.......we wouldn't have a falklands range.
Quote from: ryman1 on 08 April 2013, 08:33:50 PM
if it wasn't for Maggie.......we wouldn't have a falklands range.
:D
Remind me to drop that thank you note to Hitler! :d
Quote from: Last Hussar on 08 April 2013, 11:32:02 PM
Remind me to drop that thank you note to Hitler! :d
You have a gift for putting things in perspective, great retort! ;D
Took my wife and mistress out to dinner at the best restaurant in Bangkok to celebrate yestere'en.
Just the rest of the buggers to get now
Quote from: Luddite on 08 April 2013, 07:08:17 PM
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So little English!
Well....
I'm sorry she's died.
If she was still alive the BBC wouldn't be going ON & ON & ON & ON & ON & ON & ON & ON & ON & ON & ON & ******* ON about it.
Would someone drop me a PM when the media have decided to stop flogging a dead horse and report on something else.....Sheesh !!!
Cheers - Phil (Fully paid up member of the Cynical B*stard, I Loathe Virtually Every Single Politician Party.) :P
I guess she finally "got her money back"........
But anyways, no matter what anyone has done in their lives may the rest in peace when dead.
Say what you want about her, she won't be turning in her grave.
Quote from: WeeWars on 09 April 2013, 10:04:26 AM
Say what you want about her, she won't be turning in her grave.
But, more to the point, how long will she stay in it? :o :o :o
Quote from: mollinary on 09 April 2013, 12:41:56 PM
But, more to the point, how long will she stay in it? :o :o :o
She is not Schwarzenegger! She will not be back!
Would imagine it will be pretty hard to get out of, what with the dance floor a number of people wish to build...
Just rejoice at that news.
The Lady's not returning.
A read somewhere that she's being buried in a mine shaft.
One thing i want to know though is why the funeral isn't being privatised?
Why is £8 million of public money being spent to drag her carcass a mile across London?
I'm looking forwards to the celebration though.
Just the Bullingdon Club and New Labour to go...
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So... Where will the devil sit now that his throne in the underworld has been taken :d [-(
Just read this :
http://www.lepoint.fr/editos-du-point/michel-colomes/il-faudrait-une-thatcher-a-hollande-09-04-2013-1652525_55.php
" Il faudrait une Thatcher à Hollande
Seules des mesures drastiques prises par une personnalité sans concessions, comme le fut l'ancienne Premier ministre britannique, pourrait sortir la France de son état dépressif aggravé. "
" Hollande would need one Tatcher.
Only drastic measures committed by a personality without concessions, as was the former British Prime minister, could save France from her deep depressive state."
I want to cry.
Margaret Thatcher is a lot like Jimmy Savile. Both dead and both screwed minors in the 80s
Quote from: Vulpine on 09 April 2013, 08:54:32 PM
Margaret Thatcher is a lot like Jimmy Savile. Both dead and both screwed minors in the 80s
Funny you should say that...
(http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1397614.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Margaret%20Thatcher%20-1397614)
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02040/jim6_2040792i.jpg)
(http://www.maggiethatchersdead.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/jimmy-savile-thatcher-nspcc.jpg)
Those remind me of the photograph of Mandela buddying up to Gadaffi!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 April 2013, 01:49:23 AM
Those remind me of the photograph of Mandela buddying up to Gadaffi!
Well if we're talking about cosying up to dictators...
(http://media.salon.com/2013/04/thatcher_pinochet-620x412.jpg)
On a nasty sidenote I am glad to see (even I am German) that even you Brits realise she sold this countries assets.
I believe certain services are esesential and cannot be provided by the cheapest bidder but it is the duty of the state to provide it. As much as Blair claims the citizens have duties, the state has them as well.
And it's stupid to sell tomorrow to pay for today (esp. a small collection of stakeholders today). As Churchill observed, the best investment for any country is putting milk into babies.
I just like that this is posted in the section called 'Fun Stuff'...
:-\
I am beginning to wonder whether we should (maybe)..Kick this one into touch before it ends up getting too nasty and personal....and some bad feelings ensue ?
We don't want to end up with some sort of 'slagging off' competition, do we ?
Personally... I don't want members of the Forum falling out with each other because of differences in political views.
Just a thought chaps. ;)
Let's keep Politics and Religion kept as far away as we can ??
Cheers - Phil.
Hear, hear
indeed the views on certain issues often causes grievance and as much as I doubt real hard feelings can last very long on this particular forum I totally see your point and agree Phil.
As a sort of Neutral German (lol) I would not see the potential issues Thatcher discussions could consist of - much less is such communicated abroad in detail. As being interested in economy I can only say in my opinion it was not a smart move what she did, at least in the long run. Then my view is that certain services should be run by the government in order to ensure quality and availability (ok those 2 are debatable). I tend to think no one wants a privatized NHS, private (monopolised) energy and water sector. If I have hurt any Torrie voter I apologize and can assure them I also slug off Labour and Politicians in general if they forget what their job is. Politics is not about filling your pockets or those of a small portion of the population, in my eyes politicians should represent their people and make politics FOR people and not against them.
To grab the issue of closing mines and the demise of the steel industry in UK I think retrospectively it is clear that a basic manufacturing capacity must be retained by the state. For economic and strategic reasons (also military, I think thats quite understandable). As stated above I also criticize Labour, Blair for the balls up in Iraq and Afghanistan and in his later years abusing the "citizenship comes with duties" credo. Not that this is wrong but both the citizen and the state have duties and in a mutual agreement neither of them would have to insist on the other part doing their job properly.
Agreed it is hard to look beyond the political/religious boundaries of your own beliefs but in my experience it leads to really great results. A healthy and fair discussion is OK but I second Phil's vote to keep it sane.
Cheers
Roland
I haven't noticed one voice in her defence yet.
Some in Italy, and some in France.
Mainly those who doesn't live in UK.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 April 2013, 12:15:24 PM
I haven't noticed one voice in her defence yet.
True FK... ;)
BUT...Like I say above....Let's keep politics and religion away from the Forum.
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno on 10 April 2013, 11:38:57 AM
:-\
I am beginning to wonder whether we should (maybe)..Kick this one into touch before it ends up getting too nasty and personal....and some bad feelings ensue ?
We don't want to end up with some sort of 'slagging off' competition, do we ?
Personally... I don't want members of the Forum falling out with each other because of differences in political views.
Just a thought chaps. ;)
Let's keep Politics and Religion kept as far away as we can ??
Cheers - Phil.
You can't slander or libel the dead...
Away from the politics, I did find it pretty funny that 'Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead' from Wizard of Oz has actually re-entered the charts this week.
Quote from: Techno on 10 April 2013, 12:33:55 PM
True FK... ;)
BUT...Like I say above....Let's keep politics and religion away from the Forum.
Cheers - Phil.
A forum about WARgames and you
don't want to bring in politics or religion?! :o
Quote from: Luddite on 10 April 2013, 06:09:31 PM
A forum about WARgames and you don't want to bring in politics or religion?! :o
I think Phil wants to eliminate all interest in political/religious wars for when his new zombies come out!!
So 2 questions, when are those coming out, and will there be a tatcher one :D
Quote from: petercooman on 10 April 2013, 06:14:48 PM
I think Phil wants to eliminate all interest in political/religious wars for when his new zombies come out!!
So 2 questions, when are those coming out, and will there be a tatcher one :D
I had actually thought of that between reading your first sentence & the second one... :o
Quote from: Luddite on 10 April 2013, 06:09:31 PM
A forum about WARgames and you don't want to bring in politics or religion?! :o
Very fair point Lud ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
It's just that I could see this eventually degenerating into something that set Forum members against each other....Which I
don't want to see. ;)
I've even come up with a rather bad joke myself......But I'm not going to post it. ;)....(It's not
that good....But I was quite proud I thought of it. :P)
Cheers - Phil.
You shouldn't speak ill of the dead.
I wish Thatcher was still alive.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 11 April 2013, 12:11:43 AM
You shouldn't speak ill of the dead.
I wish Thatcher was still alive.
I assume for the selfish wish to speak bad of her :P
QuoteIt's just that I could see this eventually degenerating into something that set Forum members against each other....Which I don't want to see. ;)
She had a way of doing that...
I could easily step up to Defend Thatcher, but then I remember the ten years before her, even though I was young. I won't purely because this isn't the place for it.
I will however say one thing, because there have been some very obnoxious comments elsewhere on the web that I wouldn't want to ee repeatd here. Regardless of you views, Mrs Thatcher was someones mother, someones grand mother. How do you think they feel at the moment? How would YOU feel if people were discussing you mother or grand mother that way?
Kev
Quote from: Squirrel on 11 April 2013, 11:22:39 AM
I could easily step up to Defend Thatcher, but then I remember the ten years before her, even though I was young. I won't purely because this isn't the place for it.
I will however say one thing, because there have been some very obnoxious comments elsewhere on the web that I wouldn't want to ee repeatd here. Regardless of you views, Mrs Thatcher was someones mother, someones grand mother. How do you think they feel at the moment? How would YOU feel if people were discussing you mother or grand mother that way?
Kev
I remember what it was like before Thatcher too - and I'd go back to that in a heartbeat. See the blog post I linked to earlier in this thread for why.
And we know she was someone's mother - the odious little turd Mark Thatcher, who if anything, managed to turn out even worse than his mother.
Quote from: Nick the Lemming on 10 April 2013, 02:08:24 AM
Well if we're talking about cosying up to dictators...
(http://media.salon.com/2013/04/thatcher_pinochet-620x412.jpg)
I mean god forbid that anyone else should do such a thing!!
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2011/2/24/1298572836940/Tony-Blair-Embarks-On-Tou-007.jpg)
Quote from: Nick the Lemming on 11 April 2013, 11:56:36 AM
I remember what it was like before Thatcher too - and I'd go back to that in a heartbeat. See the blog post I linked to earlier in this thread for why.
And we know she was someone's mother - the odious little turd Mark Thatcher, who if anything, managed to turn out even worse than his mother.
Sigh, I was going to remind you of the strikes that happened in the James Callaghan Government including the Winter of 78-79, but perhaps that's what you meant when
you said you would '...go back to that in a heartbeat'
I've locked this thread, as there's always going to be strong opinions on this going either way, and it's probably best to stop it now.