Ding Dong we lost a great stateswomen - Margaret Thatcher has died

[Sysman]

If Thatcher had not happened most of the functions fulfilled by IT systems would still be labour intensive. Whilst I would not go into any great argument with you about council home sales if you think of any single sector that has benefitted so much from Thatcherism it is the IT contracting market.

Not true. I was already working in a company that was doing advanced IT stuff before Thatcher came to power.

What stuffed that company once Thatcher got in was

1. High interest rates which meant a downturn in sales
2. The company relocated Darn Sarf

Another of her unfortunate legacies was to centralise everything in London and persuade everyone to move down South.

[DodgyAgent]

Not true. I was already working in a company that was doing advanced IT stuff before Thatcher came to power.

What stuffed that company once Thatcher got in was

1. High interest rates which meant a downturn in sales
2. The company relocated Darn Sarf

Another of her unfortunate legacies was to centralise everything in London and persuade everyone to move down South.

That is because Northerners cannot be trusted

[Sysman]

That is because Northerners cannot be trusted

And that is the sort of racialist crap she fostered.

[sasguru]

And that is the sort of racialist crap she encouraged.

Northeners are a race? Fook me.
You may be right though, they always look a little slack jawed and their eyes are too close together, not to mention those strange languages they speak.

[Sysman]

The hashtag #nowthatchersdead is trending on Twitter. There are also lots of dullards saying "Oh wow, Cher's dead?"

Looking up that hashtag the messages are coming through so fast I can't keep up with them.

[Pondlife]

Looking up that hashtag the messages are coming through so fast I can't keep up with them.

Mrs P says we have to rent Moonstruck on DVD in memory.

[shaunbhoy]

You're like the support act that comes on just before the circus ends,

Well you'd know all about that, being the rear end of the Panto Horse!!

[Gibbon]

No doubt a divisive character, I do wonder though if those that disagree with her
policies would find so much hate and vitriol if she had been a man.

I was quite glad when she fecked the miners though. When I was a school a notice came round that only those whose fathers were employed at the pit would be considered. During the strike they would go round the pubs extorting money out of people on the pretext that it was for their children etc and you would see them in the next pub spending it on ale.

Poll tax was a good idea to make the councils more accountable but terribly implemented much like the early CSA.

[NickFitz]

To her credit, she realised the significance of climate change: How Thatcher Made the Conservative Case for Climate Action | Mother Jones

The year: 1990. The venue: Palais des Nations, Geneva. The star: Margaret Thatcher, conservative icon in the final month of her prime ministership. The topic: global warming.

Thatcher went to the Second World Climate Conference to heap praise on the then-infant Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and to sound, again, the alarm over global warming. Not only that, her speech laid out a simple conservative argument for taking environmental action: "It may be cheaper or more cost-effective to take action now," she said, "than to wait and find we have to pay much more later." Global warming was, she argued, "real enough for us to make changes and sacrifices, so that we do not live at the expense of future generations."

*sits back and watches various CUKers' heads explode*

[Alf W]

Good riddance to the evil old witch.

Party time