Thatcher's top five achievements

[Peoplesoft bloke]

You do know that there are a number of high ranking tory MP's who are openly gay?

Don't spoil CyberTwat's rantings with the facts (again)

[the_duderama]

Don't spoil CyberTwat's rantings with the facts (again)

Sorry.

[NotAllThere]

...I too continue to look forward to a future of seeing myself, my friends and family being ****ed over by the super rich!

As one of the super rich, I'm looking forward to ****ing over you, your friends and family, as you are ghastly poor people.

Margeret Thatcher stayed in power because she twigged she only need to please 40% of the population - and the other parties were absolute shambles. The governments since have been weak, because they court popularity.

[TinTrump]

The painful - but necessary - medicine the Tories prescribed in the early 80s was helped by a good dose of (North Sea) oil to bolster the exchequer. Anyone foresee a similar windfall in 2010?

[Zippy]

The depressing thing about this thread is that so many of you view politics in the same way you view religion i.e. back the right horse and all will be well. Maybe the 'I'll be saved and fck everyone else' ideology needs revisiting?

Just a thought and I look forward to your vitriol.

[DimPrawn]

The depressing thing about this thread is that so many of you view politics in the same way you view religion i.e. back the right horse and all will be well. Maybe the 'I'll be saved and fck everyone else' ideology needs revisiting?

Just a thought and I look forward to your vitriol.

Put the kettle on love.

[Zippy]

Put the kettle on love.

Sub-standard response - even for your stellar wit

[Sysman]

You only have to look at Margaret Thatcher, if that wasn't a man in drag then I'm Danny LaRue

Spitting Images did have her wearing a suit and tie.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

The depressing thing about this thread is that so many of you view politics in the same way you view religion i.e. back the right horse and all will be well. Maybe the 'I'll be saved and fck everyone else' ideology needs revisiting?

Just a thought and I look forward to your vitriol.

Indeed and in a thread intended to solicit celebration of Thatcher, it took about five posts to descend into a slagfest of Labour and anyone who has ever voted Labour

[DodgyAgent]

You do know that there are a number of high ranking tory MP's who are openly gay?

Also, Thatcher:

1- Went to far with manufacturing in this country, crippling our future for politcal gain.
2 - Destroyed working class communities, resulting in a perminant jobless underclass.
3 - Liberalised the markets, contributing towards the current instablity.
4 - Convinced the poor they could all also become rich if they just worked harder; "Look you can buy a tulipty house and become a member of the property owning middle classes!"
5 - Whilst making it eaiser for the rich to exploit the poor.

Excellent work! I too continue to look forward to a future of seeing myself, my friends and family being ****ed over by the super rich!

So are you saying that the working class should have been kept in their place?

Are you also saying that governments are better at running markets than we are?

Are you suggesting that the working class are too stupid to be allowed to make their own decisions?

Are you also saying that the working classes were again too stupid to fend for themselves and needed the patronage of the middle classes to keep them working in their non productive, uncompetitive industries.

I will agree with some of the hindsight assertions that were made about her going too far with stopping investment in manufacturing (where are all the engineers today?)

However the implications of your criticisms of her effectively mean that you condone a state run regulated society with a planned economy. Which therefore makes your criticisms compliments.