RIP Maggie Thatcher

[BanannaMan]

Another Maggie fan here as well.


Love her or hate her, know that the rest of the world holds her up as one of Britain's finest and truely she was.
More than just another PM. Margret Thatcher was a world leader.
Certainly the most influencial and powerful woman in modern history.

RIP

Maggie was a great leader she stood up for Britain. If the unions had their way we'd still be running the country on coal with ferrets in our trousers. For those of you that think she damaged employment think about the damage Tony Blair and his Euro crones did. (he and his missus didn't profit at all from his reign, did they, whist giving away our powers, cash and jobs)

I was in the UCW in the 80's and the shop stewards where a joke. Many of them egomaniacs. They loved the fact they could bully management.

I see some say about Maggie, that she knew that the governments job was to run the country, not to try and run business.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Well I don't agree with all Mr Routledge wrote there,but the gist of it is pretty much my view of the Thatcher years too.

Could not have put it better myself.

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by Messie

I've been trying to think of a way to express my thoughts on the passing of this woman, and failing, Then I read this article and it sums it all up for me

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...ref_map=%5B%5D

Typically badly written, one-sided, inaccurate propaganda. The way some people try to blame her for things she did her best to fix, the way others blindly believe rubbish from biggots like this, and refuse to accept that the alternatives would have been far worse, amaze and sadden me.

Read up on the subject properly before believing tosh like The Mirror.

Hi all, I am an old git from Devon ex Notts and Staffs. Been biking since 1962, first bike Triumph Tiger Cub currently 2007 SP2 and 2003 SV650.

I have been lurking on here for a while now, content to read but not post however this thread has prompted me to join in.

Let me first say I worked at a Staffordshire pit and am proud to say I didn't give way to Scargills undemocratic bullying, I worked throughout the 1984/5 strike. I do remember the intimidation both of NUM officials and the violance of the pickets, particularly Scargills rent-a -mob, mostly from South Yorkshire each of whom were getting £18 per day from the NUM and were bussed around in coaches to "deal with" pits where people chose to work.

I have always been a supporter of free speech no matter how objectionable. I am old enough to remember Sunday mornings at Hyde Park Corner where any lunatic could stand on a soapbox and spout what he or she likes. I tend to take the view that most of us are inteligent enough to see through dogma and hate. It is better to have totally free speech than have politicians or the judiciary deciding what we should or should not be exposed to.

That free speech we have allows me to opine that whilst I understand that people will have different views to me on Magaret Thatcher I find the vitriole and abuse along with celebrations of her death extremely distasteful. To state that you are pleased that someone had died merely because you disagree with them is moronic, uncivilised and inhuman. It says everything about those people engaging in this sort of behaviour.

Rest In Peace Margaret Thatcher. By far the most effective, honest, steadfast and courageous politician in my lifetime.

[Messie]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

Typically badly written, one-sided, inaccurate propaganda. The way some people try to blame her for things she did her best to fix, the way others blindly believe rubbish from biggots like this, and refuse to accept that the alternatives would have been far worse, amaze and sadden me.

Read up on the subject properly before believing tosh like The Mirror.

There have been much better articles written than that now, but that was one of the first to come out, so I feel I have read up a great deal about the subject, even though I lived through the nightmare (IMHO) Thatcher years

Originally Posted by MR SP2

Hi all, I am an old git from Devon ex Notts and Staffs. Been biking since 1962, first bike Triumph Tiger Cub currently 2007 SP2 and 2003 SV650.

I have been lurking on here for a while now, content to read but not post however this thread has prompted me to join in.

Let me first say I worked at a Staffordshire pit and am proud to say I didn't give way to Scargills undemocratic bullying, I worked throughout the 1984/5 strike. I do remember the intimidation both of NUM officials and the violance of the pickets, particularly Scargills rent-a -mob, mostly from South Yorkshire each of whom were getting £18 per day from the NUM and were bussed around in coaches to "deal with" pits where people chose to work.

I have always been a supporter of free speech no matter how objectionable. I am old enough to remember Sunday mornings at Hyde Park Corner where any lunatic could stand on a soapbox and spout what he or she likes. I tend to take the view that most of us are inteligent enough to see through dogma and hate. It is better to have totally free speech than have politicians or the judiciary deciding what we should or should not be exposed to.

That free speech we have allows me to opine that whilst I understand that people will have different views to me on Magaret Thatcher I find the vitriole and abuse along with celebrations of her death extremely distasteful. To state that you are pleased that someone had died merely because you disagree with them is moronic, uncivilised and inhuman. It says everything about those people engaging in this sort of behaviour.

Rest In Peace Margaret Thatcher. By far the most effective, honest, steadfast and courageous politician in my lifetime.

Well I would say 'hello and welcome' but you consider me to be 'moronic, uncivilised and inhuman', which is an odd way to address a community of people who are new to you.
There is a name I would call you too, but good manners holds me back, for once, but I'm sure you heard it through the coach windows when you went in to work

Well if you're happy about the death of a now harmless old lady I find it hard to argue with his choice of second word and wonder if he merely missed an "e" off the end of the third.

Moronic however seems a little unfair... not least to people with a mental age of 7-12 who no doubt still possess manners in the vast majority of cases.

[Messie]

She is as divisive in her death as she was in her life

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Messie

Well I would say 'hello and welcome' but you consider me to be 'moronic, uncivilised and inhuman', which is an odd way to address a community of people who are new to you.

Well to be fair I'd like to think his post was more aimed at the moronic and uncivilised chap below actually or other similarly puerile responses rather than yours.

Originally Posted by Messie

There is a name I would call you too, but good manners holds me back, for once, but I'm sure you heard it through the coach windows when you went in to work

It's an amusing hypocrisy that you suggest it, I'm sure anyone can pick what you mean.

Originally Posted by Blueperson

Beanfield. Criminal Justice Act. Clause 28. I'm glad the <removed by Mod> is dead and will be seeking out her grave to <removed by Mod> on it. Greed and profit for the individual over any sense of community. Honour and decency (yorkie_chris et al) were not in her vocabulary and (IMHO) she deserves neither.

I did find this humerous:

http://newsthump.com/2013/04/08/marg...-work-by-atos/


especially the last line.