Clinton Huxley wrote:Oh Bismark's prostate! Spare us from CES and his armchair expertise.
LOL - o.k. -- let me rephrase, then:
Margaret Thatcher? Spawn of an unholy union between Adolph Hitler and Imelda Marcos! She single-handled emasculated the British nation with her fascism and her general nastiness! She hated kids and dogs! She was pro-starvation as population control! She even said that smog made the air more easily breathable and that cigarettes cured cancer!
"Margaret Thatcher became death; destroyer of worlds." - Baghavad Gita.
Yeah but if you'd lived here in the 80s, you'd have really hated her....
Clinton Huxley wrote:Oh Bismark's prostate! Spare us from CES and his armchair expertise.
LOL - o.k. -- let me rephrase, then:
Margaret Thatcher? Spawn of an unholy union between Adolph Hitler and Imelda Marcos! She single-handled emasculated the British nation with her fascism and her general nastiness! She hated kids and dogs! She was pro-starvation as population control! She even said that smog made the air more easily breathable and that cigarettes cured cancer!
"Margaret Thatcher became death; destroyer of worlds." - Baghavad Gita.
Yeah but if you'd lived here in the 80s, you'd have really hated her....
That explains her three terms as PM.
Dubya was elected twice. There's no accounting for taste.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
Clinton Huxley wrote:Oh Bismark's prostate! Spare us from CES and his armchair expertise.
LOL - o.k. -- let me rephrase, then:
Margaret Thatcher? Spawn of an unholy union between Adolph Hitler and Imelda Marcos! She single-handled emasculated the British nation with her fascism and her general nastiness! She hated kids and dogs! She was pro-starvation as population control! She even said that smog made the air more easily breathable and that cigarettes cured cancer!
"Margaret Thatcher became death; destroyer of worlds." - Baghavad Gita.
Yeah but if you'd lived here in the 80s, you'd have really hated her....
That explains her three terms as PM.
Dubya was elected twice. There's no accounting for taste.
Yes, and when he was elected in 2004, he had a pretty high approval rating and won fairly easily.
If living in the 80s under Thatcher was such an obvious misery, one would think she'd have lost one of her reelection bids....instead, like in 1983, she won by a landslide.
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Coito ergo sum wrote:Yes, and when he was elected in 2004, he had a pretty high approval rating and won fairly easily.
If living in the 80s under Thatcher was such an obvious misery, one would think she'd have lost one of her reelection bids....instead, like in 1983, she won by a landslide.
Having an unelectable Labour party crippled by in-fighting, increasingly obsessed with idealogical policies, their share of the vote split by the SDP and thoroughly out of touch with the population helped a little.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. House MD Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view. Sandy Denny This is the wrong forum for bluffing Paco Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish! Calilasseia I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants. Twoflower Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse Millefleur
“Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.” Margaret Thatcher
Coito ergo sum wrote:Yes, and when he was elected in 2004, he had a pretty high approval rating and won fairly easily.
If living in the 80s under Thatcher was such an obvious misery, one would think she'd have lost one of her reelection bids....instead, like in 1983, she won by a landslide.
Having an unelectable Labour party crippled by in-fighting, increasingly obsessed with idealogical policies, their share of the vote split by the SDP and thoroughly out of touch with the population helped a little.
That does help, but usually if you're "Destroying the Country" it would be "anybody but her" wouldn't it? Folks must not have thought she was what was destroying the country.
About me: I have prehensile eyebrows. I speak 9 languages fluently, one of which other people can also speak. When backed into a corner, I fit perfectly - having a right-angled arse.
Coito ergo sum wrote:Yes, and when he was elected in 2004, he had a pretty high approval rating and won fairly easily.
If living in the 80s under Thatcher was such an obvious misery, one would think she'd have lost one of her reelection bids....instead, like in 1983, she won by a landslide.
Having an unelectable Labour party crippled by in-fighting, increasingly obsessed with idealogical policies, their share of the vote split by the SDP and thoroughly out of touch with the population helped a little.
That does help, but usually if you're "Destroying the Country" it would be "anybody but her" wouldn't it? Folks must not have thought she was what was destroying the country.
I don't think I ever said she destroyed the country. Some of the country did very well out of her stewardship. And then there are the mining, steel-working, ship-building, manufacturing towns in the North. Whole communities reduced from proud, pillars of Britain's greatness, to dying ghost towns with the only thing growing the dole queues.
Millions suffered but she didn't care because she "knew" she was right and she was prepared to pay the price in other people's lives! Cunt.
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Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
Coito ergo sum wrote:Yes, and when he was elected in 2004, he had a pretty high approval rating and won fairly easily.
If living in the 80s under Thatcher was such an obvious misery, one would think she'd have lost one of her reelection bids....instead, like in 1983, she won by a landslide.
Having an unelectable Labour party crippled by in-fighting, increasingly obsessed with idealogical policies, their share of the vote split by the SDP and thoroughly out of touch with the population helped a little.
That does help, but usually if you're "Destroying the Country" it would be "anybody but her" wouldn't it? Folks must not have thought she was what was destroying the country.
I don't think I ever said she destroyed the country. Some of the country did very well out of her stewardship. And then there are the mining, steel-working, ship-building, manufacturing towns in the North. Whole communities reduced from proud, pillars of Britain's greatness, to dying ghost towns with the only thing growing the dole queues.
Millions suffered but she didn't care because she "knew" she was right and she was prepared to pay the price in other people's lives! Cunt.
Isn't that a bit myopic? I mean - Britain's industrial base was declining in the 1970s already, and it was that decline that led to the election of Thatcher et al, wasn't it? It's not like everything was going fine, and then she came along and pulled the rug out from under it, is it? Was there any way to save Britain from the industrial decline? The same thing happened here in the US -- there was no way to right that ship -- we lost heavy industry and manufacturing because of the rise of the third world and global industrialization. I'm not sure you can blame Thatcher for that happening in the UK.
The kind of people who should be in charge of the western world are still held back. Coito is a classic example of the great being sacrificed for the lesser. We'd be back on the moon already with the engineers and scientists in power.
What will the world be like after its ruler is removed?
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Coito ergo sum wrote:Yes, and when he was elected in 2004, he had a pretty high approval rating and won fairly easily.
If living in the 80s under Thatcher was such an obvious misery, one would think she'd have lost one of her reelection bids....instead, like in 1983, she won by a landslide.
Having an unelectable Labour party crippled by in-fighting, increasingly obsessed with idealogical policies, their share of the vote split by the SDP and thoroughly out of touch with the population helped a little.
That does help, but usually if you're "Destroying the Country" it would be "anybody but her" wouldn't it? Folks must not have thought she was what was destroying the country.
I don't think I ever said she destroyed the country. Some of the country did very well out of her stewardship. And then there are the mining, steel-working, ship-building, manufacturing towns in the North. Whole communities reduced from proud, pillars of Britain's greatness, to dying ghost towns with the only thing growing the dole queues.
Millions suffered but she didn't care because she "knew" she was right and she was prepared to pay the price in other people's lives! Cunt.
Isn't that a bit myopic? I mean - Britain's industrial base was declining in the 1970s already, and it was that decline that led to the election of Thatcher et al, wasn't it? It's not like everything was going fine, and then she came along and pulled the rug out from under it, is it? Was there any way to save Britain from the industrial decline? The same thing happened here in the US -- there was no way to right that ship -- we lost heavy industry and manufacturing because of the rise of the third world and global industrialization. I'm not sure you can blame Thatcher for that happening in the UK.
For the decline, no. For the abrupt cut-off, yes.
She was so desperate to "beat" the unions, that she was happy with ANY collateral damage - and saw the destruction of British manufacturing and its terrible impact on the communities that depended on it as a price worth paying.
And don't even get me started on the Falklands! If it weren't for Argentina's invasion, she would have been out of office after one term! It was only the jingoistic sabre-rattling and Rule-Brittaniaing that saved her political neck! She seized that opportunity with both hands - 1000 dead and 2000 injured to save her career! Cunt.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. House MD Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view. Sandy Denny This is the wrong forum for bluffing Paco Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish! Calilasseia I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants. Twoflower Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse Millefleur
I hate the woman, but SOMEONE had to sort out the Unions, and there was no chance of any labour leader doing it, so I did vote for her.
I didn't actually vote for her, I voted against Neil Kinnock. I blame Labour for Margaret Thatcher. They put Neil Kinnock in charge, effectively giving her a free hand. But I'm glad that they did. Because THEY would never have sorted out the Unions, whereas she did.
The miners were twats. They got what they deserved. Fuck em.
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