Should Thatcher get a state funeral?

[KimberleyChris]

You've got it :-)

DA does not exist in real life. He is the on-line alter-ego of a Walter Mitty character!

No agent could possibly exist like that. They are all far too busy chasing leads, rounding-up contractors, sorting out people's contracts/tax gripes/ maternity/NI, chasing invoices etc to spend an entire working day on CUK!!!

I know...I've worked in a pimp's office, and it's actually bloody hard nail-biting stuff :-)

[KimberleyChris]

This is where you jump to conclusions and, like Mrs T you equate "help" with "give a handout". It's the classic perspective of people who don't actually know what hard work is and don't understand how much of a working man's self esteem comes from his work, his pride in his job and his pride in supporting himself and his family. You don't replace that with cash, because you can't. What you need to do is help him find work, not crush him under foot and tell him he's lazy because he doesn't want to move 300 miles to work for a pittance while lining the pockets of some brylcreemed spiv.

Well...I'd vote for you !!!!!!

[DodgyAgent]

"I have an office full of eastern europeans to prove it"

Yeah...right.

OK DodgyAgent

We have been chatting for 24 hours now. You have answered every one of my posts within minutes, often with several paragraphs of rant.

Today is Friday, a work day.

I think that you are actually nothing in real life. Just basically a full-time troll. Nobody works for you. You do not work.

For someone with only 64 posts you've got me sussed

[KimberleyChris]

Maybe, but I'm not the only one...you should see my PM's Mr Mitty :-)

[pjclarke]

Should Thatcher get a state funeral?

She'd only privatise it.

[Alf W]

She needs to be cremated. If they bury her, the evil witch will dig herself out.

[vetran]

Nope they need to be made to work for benefits

Half unemployed give up benefits rather than work unpaid with many falling back on 'black economy' jobs

Half of those claiming unemployment benefits would prefer to lose their handouts than do a stint of unpaid work.

Figures show that 20 per cent of those ordered to take part in four-week community projects stop claiming immediately and another 30 per cent are stripped of their benefits when they fail to turn up.

Officials suspect many of those who stop claiming benefits are working in the black economy and would rather lose their welfare than give up their undeclared earnings.

Would sort the wheat from the chaff.


Sorry to seem uncharitable but its what I and many of my friends have suspected for years. The benefit system is being abused. Plenty of people willing to take easy money from the government.

Roll it out for the long term unemployed, Then at least the ones that want to work will have a good attendance record they can show to prospective employers. You can combine it with free training and support so they can transition into work smoothly.

Alf I say again - what have you actually got against Thatcher apart from the Milk?

[DodgyAgent]

She needs to be cremated. If they bury her, the evil witch will dig herself out.

I see the misogynist bigot is back from under his stone

[AtW]

I see the misogynist bigot is back from under his stone

coal mine

[Waldorf]

So what exactly should she have done? Our manufacturing was inefficient and the rest of the country went to work to pay taxes to subsidise the likes of British leyland, The miners, the airlines, the power companies and every other trade union run organisation. By the time the game was up and we could no longer afford to subsidise your northern "entitlement" the country had gone bust and someone needed to come in and administer the medicine.
How hard is it to understand? It is the Trade Unions, The labour governments and Edward heath's placatory wettishness that you need to blame not Thatcher. The Soviet Union collapsed for exactly the same reasons

Well put - I think that overall she did Britain proud, yes she made some mistakes, but overall I wish we had in No.10 now.