Margaret Thatcher Dead!

[Aces]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I know. To be honest I hadn't actually read what Bubbles was replying to, just shocked by agreeing with what he wrote. I wasn't being anti to whatever you wrote.

Absolutely no offense taken mate

Cheers

Aces

[JU_88]

She hasn't been in power for more than two decades, so politically speaking, her death is totally irrelevant right now. As usual its alot of media fuelled hysterical sensationalist dross and its very boring already.

I can appreciate both the possitive and negative assesments of her time as PM. I'm not going to mourn her as I cant say i was ever a fan and I didn't know her personally - and Im not going to celebrate either because it is pointless and unconstructive. So us tax payers are paying for her funeral, I dont care, we pay alot more for Banker bail outs, MPs expenses, The Royals, Welfare, The legal fees of criminals, etc.
The Rightwingers are using this get all sentimental, nostalgic and wave their Union Jacks as if the 1980's was a really GREAT decade, er....in which case their memory is very 'selective'.
Lefties are celebrating as if its some kind of major victory (when its nothing of the sort) and are really just using it as a juvenille excuse to get drunk and dance around like idiots in Trafalgar square.
Lefties and Righties.... You know, I actually dont know which side I hate more. To me Left and Right just represents crap and failed political ideas from last century.

Anyway, back to the point, Yes the Iron lady/witch is dead. Now is there any chance we (Britain) can get back to moaning about suff which might actually be relevant for 2013 and beyond?... please?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by JU_88

She hasn't been in power for more than two decades, so politically speaking, her death is totally irrelevant right now. As usual its alot of media fuelled hysterical sensationalist dross and its very boring already.

I can appreciate both the possitive and negative assesments of her time as PM. I'm not going to mourn her as I cant say i was ever a fan and I didn't know her personally - and Im not going to celebrate either because it is pointless and unconstructive. So us tax payers are paying for her funeral, I dont care, we pay alot more for Banker bail outs, MPs expenses, The Royals, Welfare, The legal fees of criminals, etc.
The Rightwingers are using this get all sentimental, nostalgic and wave their Union Jacks as if the 1980's was a really GREAT decade, er....in which case their memory is very 'selective'.
Lefties are celebrating as if its some kind of major victory (when its nothing of the sort) and are really just using it as a juvenille excuse to get drunk and dance around like idiots in Trafalgar square.
Lefties and Righties.... You know, I actually dont know which side I hate more. To me Left and Right just represents crap and failed political ideas from last century.

Anyway, back to the point, Yes the Iron lady/witch is dead. Now is there any chance we (Britain) can get back to moaning about suff which might actually be relevant for 2013 and beyond?... please?

Fair points

[JU_88]

Just noticed I reached 3000 posts. Neal every time we hit a 1000 posts can we have this sound played please?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Now is there any chance we (Britain) can get back to moaning about suff which might actually be relevant for 2013 and beyond?... please?

Oh, come on. Be reasonable. Over here we're still refighting a war that ended almost 150 years ago. I don't suppose you still argue whether the Cavaliers or the Roundheads were in the right? Henry or Richard? Harald or Harold or William? This is within our own memory. Of course it's worth fighting over!

And then there's the one we share in common: George and George.

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Oh, come on. Be reasonable. Over here we're still refighting a war that ended almost 150 years ago. I don't suppose you still argue whether the Cavaliers or the Roundheads were in the right? Henry or Richard? Harald or Harold or William? This is within our own memory. Of course it's worth fighting over!

And then there's the one we share in common: George and George.

Oh no Steve, I can't be dealing with pre-20th century history, wasn't it all just a load of beards, knights, wizards, silly hats and Plesiosaurs before 1900?
Actually Plesiosaurs are good, I think the problem is that we dont have those anymore, i hope nessie is a Plesiosaur... although shes a thousand times more likley to be seal/boat/gull/wind/driftwood/clockwork submarine/Scottish bloke who needs to pay his morgage. But if a Plesiosaur did crawl out of the Loch tomorrow, everyone would forget about this Thatcher nonsense pretty quick

Now is there any chance we (Britain) can get back to moaning about suff which might actually be relevant for 2013 and beyond?...

Good point, where do you want to start?
Bedroom tax, rail franchise, utilities companies, unemployment, decline of industry, preservation of the union, arms scandals, corruption, credit fueled bubbles, falklands, the disabled, privatisation, affording Trident, getting rid of the NHS......

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Good point, where do you want to start?
Bedroom tax, rail franchise, utilities companies, unemployment, decline of industry, preservation of the union, arms scandals, corruption, credit fueled bubbles, falklands, the disabled, privatisation, affording Trident, getting rid of the NHS......

Wait, you missed the biggest one of them all...
Immigration.

Wait, you missed the biggest one of them all...
Immigration.

Immigration is just dog whistle politics for people who want to find someone easy to blame.
All the issues I listed are ongoing problems with things Maggies fans claim she fixed while immigration reads exactly the same as it does since Elizabeth I claimed that her nation was being over run by blacks a couple of hundred years ago.

[Betonov]

Unlike our PM, at least she knew how to speak English

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Good point, where do you want to start?
Bedroom tax, rail franchise, utilities companies, unemployment, decline of industry, preservation of the union, arms scandals, corruption, credit fueled bubbles, falklands, the disabled, privatisation, affording Trident, getting rid of the NHS......

Anyone of the above, I really dont care

[BossMark]

Big Ben to be silent for Baroness Thatcher's funeral

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22157022


Now there's showing respect for someone's funeral, but 10 million for her funeral and now this its way over the top.


But I will say no more on the matter as I promised Jim that I would behave myself on the subject.

Big Ben to be silent for Baroness Thatcher's funeral

They didn't want anyone to hear it go ding-dong.

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

They didn't want anyone to hear it go ding-dong.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

They didn't want anyone to hear it go ding-dong.

I'm not sensing the lover here.