Some people take this "Thatch" hatred too far

[BlasterBates]

No it doesn't. MRSA is a tiny subset of all resistant pathogens.

The article says "Bis zu 40 000 sterben durch multiresistente Erreger".

"Multiresistente Erreger" does NOT mean MHRA.


HTH, but IDI.

BlasterBates pwned.

Yeah thx for that as always an interesting and informative debate.

[sasguru]

Yeah thx for that as always an interesting and informative debate.

Glad to make up for your "educashun".
Next time you could save time by taking my sig to heart.

[NotAllThere]

Yes it's a bit of an over-reaction when all she did was devastate communities, increase taxes, create civil unrest, quash bodies that stood up for workers rights, introduce unfair taxes and create privately owned monopolies....

And the downside was?

Grants were cancelled under Thatcher,...

I graduated July 1990. I had a grant. Thatcher departed 22nd November 1990. So she must have abolished the grant in those last four months then? er... no. the grant was abolished in 1999 under the New Labour government.

[BlasterBates]

Lets face it, just suppose Labour had be in power since 1979, would the pits be open? would the steelworks be open? would they have done it in a painless way? I somehow doubt it. Of course they wouldn't have done it straight away they would have waited a bit until it all started fall apart, and because it would be unplanned and chaotic there wouldn't have been an orderly change to new industries.

In Germany the most painful reform was done by the SPD (the socialist party) simply because it all began to fall apart on their watch.

Gerhardt Schroeder is hated almost as much as Thatcher is.

It's just the mugs who happened to be in power at the time.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

what if? aka 'the counter-factual concept' in history. I used to do it as a historian - its about as much use as a global warming model

= fck all squared

What is your point?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Have you met Margaret Thatcher?

No

[EternalOptimist]

What is your point?

the point is, even the professionals see it as rather pointless.
good for pub talk and thats about it

[SupremeSpod]

No

You have never met the woman yet you have a "Personal" as well as "ideological" dislike for her?

How bizarre.

[Spacecadet]

And the downside was?

I graduated July 1990. I had a grant. Thatcher departed 22nd November 1990. So she must have abolished the grant in those last four months then? er... no. the grant was abolished in 1999 under the New Labour government.

WHS - I got a grant in 97 and 98
I was fortunate to go to uni just before the fees were introduced.

Since then labour have done their best to force young people into a state of debt and at the same time devalue the very degrees they have got massively into debt for.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

You have never met the woman yet you have a "Personal" as well as "ideological" dislike for her?

How bizarre.

Not at all. I personally dislike Robert Mugabe and Ian Huntly too.