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Macky said:
The police turned up and tried to kettle you, then stole your sound system?
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Not predictable at all was it?!

"Everyone has the right to free speech but just let us know where you are going to be demonstrating your right so that we can ensure you are able to do it safely"

Thatcher's militia.
 
Mawsley said:
Not predictable at all was it?!

"Everyone has the right to free speech but just let us know where you are going to be demonstrating your right so that we can ensure you are able to do it safely"

Thatcher's militia.
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I think the Newspeak phrase they use now is "...so that we can facilitate your protest"


Apparently an EDL mob has turned up in Trafalgar "to defend Maggie's honour", shower of ****s and they turned over a pub in Whitehall earlier as well apparently
 
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Margaret Thatcher was the most divisive and polarising politic leader of the last century. This is an incomplete list of why many of us fall on the side that does not regard her with anything other than odium…

1. She supported the retention of capital punishment
2. She destroyed the country's manufacturing industry
3. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws
4. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren ("Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher")
5. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)
6. She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration
7. She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)
8. She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed - the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million
9. She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands
10. The poll tax
11. She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad
12. She compared her "fight" against the miners to the Falklands War
13. She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we've been railing against for the last 5 years
14. She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS
15. She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits
16. She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA
17. She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control
18. Section 28
19. She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as "that grubby little terrorist"
20. She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers
21. She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population
22. She opposed the reunification of Germany
23. She invented Quangos
24. She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%
25. She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister
26. Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech
27. The Al Yamamah contract
28. She opposed the indictment of Chile's General Pinochet
29. Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike
30. She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%
31. BSE
32. She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession
33. She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process
34. She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa
35. Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin
36. Crime rates doubled under Thatcher
37. Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain - £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros - £1 billion
38. Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage
39. She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.
40. She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education
41. In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions
42. 21.9% inflation

Most people recognise the massive changes that evolved during the 1980s. However, to ascribe the positive changes to one person, as though they never would have happened in her absence, is laughable.
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Just in case anyone was unsure why some of us don't idolise Thatcher.

Someone else's opinion
Because she did nothing to encourage good knowledge of grammar despite being education secretary and as a result we have a whole generation of people who were children in the 80s who don't know the difference between 'of' and 'have', who don't know how to use apostrophes and who don't know that the plural of 'thirty' is 'thirties', not 'thirty's'.

Oh, and she !!!!ed our manufacturing and mining industries, rendering entire communities with nothing to do apart from join the dole and take drugs.
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There must be a BM type on this site
 
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The Battle for Orgreave (not too far from where I live) is shown here.
Thatcher wanted to crush the Unions and the Police tactics used here were proof that defeat to the miners was not an option.
Of course the same Police were there at Hillsborough as well.
Strange that both incidents were caused by the Police rather than the Police defending themselves from an attack. Listen to what the Police Asst. Chief Commissioner said to the Court as the actual action unfolds on screen. Is it any wonder why Police get a bad name.

 
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Motown Fox said:
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Just in case anyone was unsure why some of us don't idolise Thatcher.

Someone else's opinion

There must be a BM type on this site
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The bollocks about grammar has been true for generations and will continue to be true; it's largely down to dialect and speech rather than a lack of education.
 
Mawsley said:
It was code, he was calling your cup of tea a strumpet.
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Strumpet! Do they still have "strumpets" in the 21st century? Are there still ""brazen hussies" and girls who are "no better than they ought to be"?

Damn it, Maws I was beginning to doze off and now you have woken me up.
 
David Gwilliam said:
Strumpet! Do they still have "strumpets" in the 21st century? Are there still ""brazen hussies" and girls who are "no better than they ought to be"?

Damn it, Maws I was beginning to doze off and now you have woken me up.
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It looks like me and you Maws keep waking our David up.


Oh and David I think you woke me up as I'm now thinking of girls who are "no better than they ought to be"
 
Went to see Sean Lock tonight. He pointed out that we should all admire Maggie for having stuck to her principles to the end.

The day she died the nurses who had been looking after her full time for the last 2 years lost their jobs.
 
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