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

[Platypus]

They're all at it.

[Flashman]

Freedom fighter, revolutionary, mother, wife, leader, hero.

Richard Wagner - Siegfried Funeral March - Götterdämmerung - Solti - Vidéo Dailymotion

GLORIOUS VICTORY TO THATCHER. RIP.

[mudskipper]

The most odous person in the UK and Jimmy Saville

Well they both were rather fond of screwing miners.

[tractor]

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This slimy pair used to make me laugh, he had given up politics, she was still rabid about things (mostly Portillo)

[Goatfell]

My father used to work for the steel works until 1980s when a lot of the plant was closed. However, he got on with it, re-trained and found a new job almost straight away.
He rightly points out that it was the policy of nationalization that brought the industry to its knees, as it did not modernize enough.
It was NOT a sole result of the Tories that such industries began to collapse. Prior to Thatcher's election in 1979, two steel works in South Wales were going down the pan.
The economic reforms and the expansion of the service sector in my local area that she encouraged have so far been very successful.
Considering the mess the country was in prior to her election, I think she did a good job (a far better job than Michael Foot, Kinnock or any militant trade union organization could ever have done!!)

fairly concise

I too worked in the steel industry at that time, there was one mill there that was referred to as the "New Mill", it was built in 1898 in Germany and was taken from Germany after WW1 as reparation. That's an indication of the level of investment.

When Toyota were visiting a number of steel plants to select a supplier there was a problem, "Carry on, they won't notice" was the decision. At the end of the demonstration, one of the visiting group said politely, "That was very interesting, but tell me, did you know you've been producing scrap all afternoon?". That's an indication on the quality of management.


By '79 British industry was already over the brink having been led there by the triumvarate of nihilistic unions, inept management and shambolic politicians. I think it was a case of a gangreneous leg being removed, but being replaced with a prosthetic limb that was 6" too short - barely useful, but better than the alternatives. . .

[Platypus]

Well they both were rather fond of screwing miners.

[Sysman]

When Toyota were visiting a number of steel plants to select a supplier there was a problem, "Carry on, they won't notice" was the decision. At the end of the demonstration, one of the visiting group said politely, "That was very interesting, but tell me, did you know you've been producing scrap all afternoon?". That's an indication on the quality of management.

I remember someone visiting one of the coachbuilders that did bus bodies for Leyland chassis.

Apparently no two chassis were the same length, so each and every bus was a custom job. Nobody at Leyland could be arsed to standardise the measurements.

[Sysman]

Lady T was born in Grantham, which generally qualifies as oop north.

It makes me wonder whether that drove her to hate the north.

I've seen that happen to various folks who have migrated darn sarf.

There's nowt worse than a snob from a humble background who wants to leave their past behind.

It's going to be one hell of a funeral.

Probably so. I will plan to be doing something which doesn't involve watching telly that day.

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

She engendered the bottom up society in which the individual is empowered.

Compare this to the left wing top down society where the state is all pervading and controlling.