Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies, aged 87.

[Quaxar]

So tell me, is the kickstarter to build a big dance floor upon her grave already up? I'm sure this has the potential to become the world's most expensive and most visited dancing venue.

 

[Lethos]

The fact that she was female tends to somehow mask the fact that she her treatment of British mining communities wasn't a million miles away from Hitler's treatment of Jews. Had mass genocide been an option I dare say she would have strongly considered it, as she essentially "killed" many people anyway.

Oh for goodness sake. It's opinions like this that give the left in our country a bad name. You know when you read a news story of some far-right pundit in the US claiming Obama is a socialist/Marxist/communist-flavor-of-the-month? Well congratulations, you're now on the same level as them.

Disagree with your political opponents. Don't demonize them.

 

[Lionsfan]

....Ouch. Yeah, they really don't teach us that about her in the states.

I'm sure jeffers won't object to me saying this, but you shouldn't just take his word about it. Thatcher is our Reagan (in fact the two were pretty much best friends). Depending on who you ask, she is patron saint of the economy, or the worst thing to happen to modern Britain.

This is why I'm not a fan of politics. Everything is gray and grey and it just gets me a headache. And called unpleasant things.

You damned fascist commie anarchist!


OT: American, never really knew much about Thatcher, just that there's not really a middle ground about her, you either loved her or hated her

 

[Lethos]

Why is it? Seriously, I've known families who had members end their own lives because they'd done nothing but work down a mine for 20 years and were unable to adjust, continue to support their own families, and had their self esteem totally destroyed.

And that's tragic, I'm not disagreeing with that. But do you think Thatcher sat on a throne of miner's skulls plotting how she can screw around with the working class on each day of the week? If you disagree with a politician's policies then you attack the policies, not the person. You certainly don't compare them to Hitler.

Honestly amazed I have to be explaining this. Seem basic civility is an art these days.

 

[The Funslinger]

Ding dong the witch is dead! Which old witch? The Wicked Witch!

I realise that to people not familiar with British politics, some of these comments might seem a little crass. What you must realise is that while Thatcher was the first female PM, and therefore certainly something of a role model for women in male-dominated environments, she was also the single most wretched, miserly, pathologically lying sociopath of a PM that the country has seen. The entire reason why the north of England is now a comparative economic deadzone is because she quite happily destroyed entire communities and shut down entire industries.

She didn't just enact terrible, terrible policies like the Poll Tax. She did so with a psychotic, patronising glee, telling us that even if we didn't like it, we'd have to take it up the arse. "Yes the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it!"

She quite happily shat upon Scotland, Northern England and Wales simply in order to make things better for the Tory home counties in the South. Despite being the first female PM, she was everything that's wrong with the current political system, and embodied every single nasty quality that makes up the Conservative Party. She was a homophobe who banned the teaching or promotion in any way of homosexuality, she was a free-market capitalist to an insane degree, the reason why our railway networks are currently so fucked is because she decided to sell them off in the Eighties...

Suffice to say, round here we've been saying for a long time that the day Thatcher dies is the day we organise a street party. All due respect, blah blah blah, she was a terrible person who caused suffering and hardship for millions of people. If they even think of giving her a state funeral...

Speaking as someone who comes from what used to be one of the largest lead mining areas in North England, I'm not sorry to see her go.

 

[Buizel91]

Yeah, it might not exactly be classy, but we here up in Scotland weren't exactly her biggest fans in the world.

Glad i ain't the only one who thought this!

Sure she's dead, and death is something i wouldn't wish on anyone, but i couldn't help but think of this when i heard :')

 

[Hoplon]

So tell me, is the kickstarter to build a big dance floor upon her grave already up? I'm sure this has the potential to become the world's most expensive and most visited dancing venue.

Nah if we did that we wouldn't be able to

 

[ninjaRiv]

You know, she probably died thinking she was right. So I don't know about celebrating...

But yeah, she sucked! The weirdest thing to come out of this news is seeing people defend her policies and say the shit she did benefited the country, that we now have a growing, prosperous country. I shit you not, people are saying that. They say it like it's fact.

 

[robot slipper]

I remember my deputy head of sixth form presenting an assembly to us once, starting with the words "The IRA tried to assassinate Margaret Thatcher, and I wish they had succeeded".

In addition to all of the aspects of her political career that have already been mentioned, as a school child growing up in the 80's, she STOLE MY MILK. Hence, I didn't think she could actually die - I was always under the impression that she was a cyborg.

 

[Total LOLige]

Oh man, I was really looking forward to an Iron Lady sequel. Although it does set up a potential horror movie about her, Iron Lady 2: Back From Hell, in which she comes back from the grave and torments poor people. Or other sequels such as Iron Lady 3: Killer Kapitalism , Iron Lady 4: Stalin's Revenge(A Freddy vs Jason deal)

Joking aside, good riddance. That may seem a little insensitive but she caused a great amount of suffering for so many.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

'Tis a wonderous day indeed folks!


Let's head down to the Pub! Drinks are on me!

 

[PsychicTaco115]

So, like the Iron Curtan, the Iron Lady has fallen.... Curtains fall, right?

American, so can't really comment, but did anyone see "The Iron Lady" film that came out....Last year, IIRC