Should Thatcher get a state funeral?

[DodgyAgent]

I voted no.

As much as I admire her, she was a divisive figure. State funerals are only for those people who unite us as a nation.

She was too busy saving the nation from the evils of socialism than to worry about the middle class liberals who like to pretend that they have a conscience

[Lockhouse]

She was too busy saving the nation from the evils of socialism than to worry about the middle class liberals who like to pretend that they have a conscience

I'm as right wing as they come, but even I realise she made some pretty serious mistakes when it came to Scotland and 'Oop North.

[darmstadt]

She was too busy saving the nation from the evils of socialism than to worry about the middle class liberals who like to pretend that they have a conscience

Which she ****ed up completely as she turned that socialism into a wannabe Tory style party which is why the country is in the state it is now.

[DodgyAgent]

Which she ****ed up completely as she turned that socialism into a wannabe Tory style party which is why the country is in the state it is now.

The country was f**ked up by your socialist friends. What she did was to administer the medicine. She also introduced the notion of self reliance and personal responsibility by breaking up the Unions, freeing up the banking and energy and airline and every other "protected industry" sector.

No one ever thinks of the misery and totalitarianism of what went before her, the bankrupting of the economy, the three day week.

there are many things that she did (in hindsight) that could have been done better, but most of these would have involved borrowing money (there was none) , for for example infrastructure investment.

I know its fashionable to resent her - "oh I am so caring, so liberal" but most of us especially contractors have been freed from the grasp of the state and its institutions to live our own lives and take our own responsibilities - which the liberals choose to call greed.

[AtW]

The country was f**ked up by your socialist friends.

It still is.

If the Iron Lady had guts to disband Labour party then the country would not be in the mess it is now.

[DodgyAgent]

It still is.

If the Iron Lady had guts to shoot Labour party then the country would not be in the mess it is now.

FTFY

[KimberleyChris]

If you were not living oop north during the Thatcher era then I'm sorry, but you have nothing to say.

I voted for her once. The 150 year-old factory I was working at then (which built the diesel power units for most of Britain's railway locomotives) is now a shoddy shared-ownership housing estate. There is literally no trace...nothing to show that there was ever a factory there.

We still buy plenty of diesel locomotives, but there is really nobody in Britain left to build them. We used to ship them to the world, but now we import them. like the third world used to do from us.

[Zippy]

Just thought... she'd float

[AtW]

We still buy plenty of diesel locomotives, but there is really nobody in Britain left to build them. We used to ship them to the world, but now we import them. like the third world used to do from us.

To be fair Thatcher did what other successive Govts also did - including so called Labour!

[DodgyAgent]

If you were not living oop north during the Thatcher era then I'm sorry, but you have nothing to say.

I voted for her once. The 150 year-old factory I was working at then (which built the diesel power units for most of Britain's railway locomotives) is now a shoddy shared-ownership housing estate. There is literally no trace...nothing to show that there was ever a factory there.

We still buy plenty of diesel locomotives, but there is really nobody in Britain left to build them. We used to ship them to the world, but now we import them. like the third world used to do from us.

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