Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Cynic,

I agree with you she didn't provoke the Falklands War.

I doubt she knew where the islands where before the Argentinians attempting to move back in.

Personally, I think she saw the opportunity to bolster her failing political fortunes and jumped at the opportunity to parade herself as a War time leader.

Again, I thought she was "bonkers", likewise for Blair and Iraq.

Total up the cost in lives and money of the interventions in the way they were carried out in the name of vanity.

I thought McMillan's international political approach was more realistic and abreast of his period the periods after him.

Maggie appealed to the tory wishes for the grandeur of long lost periods in British history

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Cynic,

Bad taste, are you cooking again?

Jokes about political leaders have always been made about deceased political leaders Hitler, Stalin etc. and I know many about Tito.

Many of the jokes are perceptive and others less than humorous.

You and others are allowed to venerate you "heroes and heroins" as you feel fit.

But sometimes I consider it is of less consequence and more honest to attempt to "humiliate" the dead than do so to the living who are unable to defend themselves.

Besides, I see the "veneration" of Thatcher, by this tory party is attempting to associate a failing leadership with past periods of useless euphoria.

errr shortie sept 8 2008........... David Cameron speaking....... "we need far less regulation of the Banking sector, Bankers should be able to use capital so that they get the biggest returns possible".

he he, brilliant comment Fred your a dry so and so, great reading your comments....

"I doubt she knew where the islands where before the Argentinians" LOL.

satire has long been a part of political life ..... it is not necessarily distasteful, but i believe this is (haven't even heard a note of it, so i'm on dangerous ground i know)

with regards to the falklands war, you do a great disservice ...... only the likes of you would suggest that she lacked great personal integrity; it's irrelevant whether or not you agree with her view .... as i wrote for sticky, avail yourself of the papers just released under the 30-year rule, and you may learn a lot

Cyners worked out where your local golf course is........ its Bude isnt it.?

Them 30 year papers could do her a lot of harm. Be carefull.

if they do, they do, but at least they're true and accurate

By the end of the 1970s there were 12 million union members as opposed to 5 million plus now. The figur is falling fast year by year with more than 100,000 being lost every year. This is part of the reason that we get less industrial strife. The militants still exist in the shape on Bob Crowd and others. There remains a shrinking rump of members of the Socialist Workers Party that looks forward to the revolution. When my son was at 6th form college, his politics teacher said she wished we could go back to the days when she could just call her fellow workers out on strike for whatever reason she chose. She hated all forms of automation as it reduces jobs. She hates PCs and all form of computers, checkout scanners, online retailing etc. She tried hard to indoctrinate the pupils, get them to skip college to attend protest marches. Groups like the SWP are a cancer in our society.

Well cynic the one good thing about Maggie was her thirst for free speech.

gf

"all the ill feeling and the country divided in half"

This is one of the great myths of the left. The country is certainly divided, but it is divided in TWO and NOT in HALF. The recent polls show that people think Thatcher was good for the UK in the ratio of 2 to 1.

Hmmm just looked at my Diary......... haystacks comes off his 6 month squelch suspension tomorrow. Has he got any better or is he still disrespectfull of the old disabled and truly poor??.

Might even take him off now.

Haystacks re-instated.

Worth having a look on the advfn thread.....t1ps.

Im sure Winnie has gone clinicaly mad.

God! Don't tell me that the idiot goldplunger has unfiltered me. I was enjoying his lack of insane replies to my posts.

Haystacks just depends on what poll you are reading.

No way should Thatcher be given same funeral as Royalty.

Still the same old Haystacks ..........as ignorant as -hit.

I remember Brian(biker hells angel type) on advfn introducing me to you about 8 years ago.

At the time I thought you were an ignorant numpty, guess things dont change.

that's not factually correct, but as i have posted a couple of times, it concerns me that this has set a precedent - WSC was an exception and for very different reasons

TORY POLL TAX 2 comes into force today.

Expect rioting further down the line...........probably first bank holiday we have if its nice weather.

Cyners have you got a slow internet connection?.

Whats above post about?

No way should Thatcher be given same funeral as Royalty ...... is not factually correct