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Topic History of: And finally, Maggie (for now)
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hedda |
the great failure of Thatcherism is there for all to see including Blind Freddie / ITK..
continued by PM since : the social security bill. bigger than ever  |
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The Twitfinder General |
And now, on Question Time, there's Charles Moore, Toady-in-Chief, being the latest irony-ignorant twit raging at the BBC whilst appearing on the BBC. They never get the air time on ITV, or even C4, let alone Sky, but they still can't resist trying to attack the BBC as some kind of sinister conspiracist. Ban them all! |
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Hamlet |
I've read the various threads on here about Mrs Thatcher and am so annoyed that I have to respond. Firstly I've always found it rather odd that supporters of Mrs Thatcher ( I call her that because Mrs Thatcher was her name not the cuddly, media-created 'Maggie') who like to think of themselves as 'individuals' such as JK are so fawning, herd-like and unthinking when it comes to Thatcher. They want everyone else to 'think out of the box' so long as it isn't by questioning the tenets of their own dogma.
Regarding Mrs Thatcher, much of the bile she is invoking from some people is justified. That said, she did do some positive things. The two that spring to mind are her excellent leadership of the Falklands War and the right to buy your council house policy. However these are outweighed by the bad. Have people forgotten Clause 28, which institutionalised homophobia in schools? Also there is the destruction of whole communities via the outsourcing of heavy industry and closing of the mines. Also there is the elevation of the gutter values of the Essex spiv, Kelvin MacKenzie type media slobs and ghastly golf-club fascist-lites as virtues. Anyone recall the support for General Pinochet?
In some ways Thatcher had a lot in common with the dry Marxists that she opposed. Both had an utter contempt for anything above and beyond arid materialism, such as concern for the environment, and both believed that people exist to serve the economy and not the other way round. |
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hedda wrote:
In The Know wrote:
hedda wrote:
but for everything said about Thatcher, I hate Blair much more.
... and Callaghan too ?
The Labour leader who admitted that the loonies had ruined the UK so much that if he were younger he would emigrate ??!!!!!???
can't really remember Jim's time.
he was sort of there and then wasn't
Glenda is 80? good for her.
She is seventy-six.  |
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hedda |
In The Know wrote:
hedda wrote:
but for everything said about Thatcher, I hate Blair much more.
... and Callaghan too ?
The Labour leader who admitted that the loonies had ruined the UK so much that if he were younger he would emigrate ??!!!!!???
can't really remember Jim's time.
he was sort of there and then wasn't
Glenda is 80? good for her. |
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