Margaret Thatcher RIP?

[Coito ergo sum]

http://news.sky.com/story/1075292/marga ... ter-stroke

[ronmcd]

If you feel a bit bad about making jokes about Thatcher's death, it simply means that you have more humanity than she ever possessed.

https://twitter.com/robertflorence/stat ... 5688913920

[Clinton Huxley]

The Vermin Mint will already be working on their commemorative Thatcher Dambuster's Singing Clock. £29.99 a month for the next 99 months.

[Coito ergo sum]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... -over.html

[klr]

Can I remind people that we now have a dedicated thread for those wishing to comiserate/celebrate (delete as applicable):

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=43049

[Coito ergo sum]

[Xamonas Chegwé]

What you know is right, Maggie? Or just what you are too proud, stubborn and pigheaded to admit is wrong no matter how many people, of however many political leanings tell you it is wrong!

You tore this country in two, you bitch. You bolstered the middle-classes at the expense of the poor. You sold off our national assets to carpet-baggers. They will need an armed guard around your grave forever to keep away the millions queueing up to piss on it.

[Coito ergo sum]

How Margaret Thatcher made Britain great again
As the BBC tells the story of Margaret Thatcher’s downfall in a major new drama, one of Britain’s leading historians assesses her legacy
LAST UPDATED AT 14:49 ON WED 25 FEB 2009
When Margaret Thatcher was asked what she had changed about British politics, she answered: "Everything." It was uncharacteristically immodest of her, but it was true. After she became prime minister in May 1979, she changed the atmosphere of the pre-emptive cringe that successive ministries of both parties and industrial management had exhibited towards the trade unions ever since the World War Two.

She changed the sense of embarrassment that Britons felt towards the concepts of productivity and profit. She changed British reliance on manufacturing industry just in time, inaugurating the services and information technology industry revolutions.

She changed the attitude of appeasement and post-imperial guilt that had actuated foreign policy making since the Suez Crisis. She changed British politics so fundamentally that the Labour Party had to drop socialism and change its name and objectives in order to get elected.

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/marga ... z2PszHo04X

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://www.dont.bother.this.is.a.joke.not.link.com

[DaveD]

[Coito ergo sum]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Svartalf]

I'm not sure you are right. Certainly there is a schoolboy version of democracy which holds that we are all part of a large group with an interest in good outcomes for the majority who generally want the best possible outcome for the majority and that we all pop along and vote cheerfully for the people we think will deliver it, but the reality, as you point out is more complicated.

SHE wasn't interested in a globally acceptable 'good outcome', nor have the tories that came after her been.

[DaveD]

Who thinks she should have a statue erected in her memory? I do:

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