Margaret Thatcher dies

Al Jazera, report 5 mins ago...Margaret Thatcher is dead.....I'll not comment any further.

 

CNN has confirmed this too... Rest in Peace Maggie Thatcher!

 

Heard it on the radio on the drive in. Since her tenure, there has not been a British Prime Minister that would have been able to tell the US President to bugger off if she did not like him. RIP Baroness Thatcher. :mourn:

 

A sad loss. However, I'm now aware of exactly how many sad, twisted f***kers of my acquaintance are openly planning parties, and they're no longer "friends".

 

Geez, that is sad Gordon. Can never figure that one out other than individuals such as that really do not have a consciousness of reality. In my opinion, The Iron Lady was the last of the greats of British Leaders. No country messed with the UK while she was at the helm.

 

Apart from Argentiana, Russia, Libya, ireland, Iceland, and quite a few others..However I wish not to bemoan...There are as many she harmed as she favoured in the UK.

Edit, and I really should take my own advice and not comment. She did good...she did bad...she did indeed turn...she could be obstinate...she learned her biggest lesson from taking milk from school children...a position she did not even want to take as education minister...She was derided for little gain...that lesson stuck with her, and she learned from it.

There is no such thing as society....Margaret Thatcher....and there is the beginning of all..

 

She wasn't perfect. and perhaps not even the greatest British PM, but she was a human being. I have no problem with people not liking her, her policies or even the party, but she's dead FFS.
A bit of respect wouldn't go amiss, and I don't mean anyone in here.

 

Funny how everybody forgets the true story behind "Margaret Thatcher Milk Snatcher":

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7932963/How-Margaret-Thatcher-became-known-as-Milk-Snatcher.html

Harold Wilson, Milk Snatcher is actually nearer the truth.

As for the oft-quoted - out of context - "no such thing as society": here it is in context, from the original interview given to Woman's Own.

RIP Maggie. We shall not see your like again.

 

No politician can pass without some amount of criticism, they are human after all, but none can deny that Thatcher was an exceptional personality who tried, and in my opinion mostly did good by her people and western civilization.

Can't say that about most leaders.

 

There is no 'perfect' leader or person. As Gordon pointed out, she is a human being. As such, she deserves the respect the deceased have earned. If one cannot say something nice, then nothing should be said. Sound advice in my opinion.

 

She was a good politician for her country. RIP .

 

There is her quote as you rightly state. She said it and meant it in the way it came out. Margaret Thatcher did not support the milk cessation to schoolchildren..her own words...But she was the education secretary who ended it, not Harold Wilson. Not even the same party as you well know.

 

Chavez and the last thread on him comes to mind...Will you be stating the same in that one Ike? No?

Margaret Thatcher was a one off in British politics. She deserves all the praise she gets for a lot of her work. She was no angel, and she certainly was no Devil. She introduced policies that affected the lives of millions even today. She has the right to rest in peace. And since I have not attacked her in any way I do too. Get off your high horse.

 

Whoa. Where did that come from? As for Chavez, I certainly have no like for him but would not go onto a forum and hijack it into a political debate. As you will note, I made no comments on the specified thread so I have not idea where you are coming from. Some misunderstanding going on here methinks.

 

She was a heroic figure. I don't think we'll see her like again, on either side of the Atlantic. The bureaucrats have won.

 

We'll put it down to a misunderstanding then mate.

 

Can't see her as a hero, the boys yomping up Langdon they were heroes she only had the guts to send them?! That said I'm not getting involved in the internet wide hysteria, she wasn't Pol Pot or Stalin and some respect for the dead is required.

 

I wasn't even thinking of the Falklands. I was thinking of her pulling GB in a new conservative direction, against the tide. Reagan was doing the same thing here. Of course any gains are now long lost and we're all sinking back into the swamp.

 

Well I could debate that endlessly with you.

 

To be honest with you I am fairly ignorant about the lady, but what I do believe that I know about her is that she stuck to her principles and in today's political world that is something to be admired.

May she rest in peace.

KTK