Margaret Thatcher is dead

[FrisianDude]

what Mage said. I mean, how long would those mines have lasted otherwise anyway? The same way as they were?

 

[pentagathus]

Yeah that's what you get for being an evil milk stealing witch!
But seriously, celebrating her death is just petty. Even if she was misguided and screwed our country over, at least she believed she was doing the right thing. I really doubt she enjoyed the troubles that she's accused of causing.

 

[Overlord-]

Even if she was misguided and screwed our country over, at least she believed she was doing the right thing.

Who doesn't?

 

[Almalexia]

Well a lot of people end up working for a system they dislike or even vehemently hate, but do nothing about it because they don't have the power to change the system.

 

[BlackTide]

Well a lot of people end up working for a system they dislike or even vehemently hate, but do nothing about it because they don't have the power to change the system.

I think that it was more about the feeling that the system was working against them. With that being said, the Unions were becoming an issue but I feel that the way that she tackled them was a bit unnecessary. I just caught whiff of a party in Leeds celebrating her death, it's obviously a bit over the top but her policies had a big effect on the North.

 

[Mage246]

Don't you get it? She took our jobs! Shey turk er jurbs!

[insert South Park link here]

 

[Scully]

You know who's also dead? Hitler. Coincidence? I think not

 

[rebelsquirrell]

Well a lot of people end up working for a system they dislike or even vehemently hate, but do nothing about it because they don't have the power to change the system.

Dude that sums up human existence itself. 

 

[Scully]

Also, inb4 "Shouldn't this be posted in Fun Stuff?"

 

[Dryvus]

You know who's also dead? Hitler. Coincidence? I think not

Check and mate, dear editors, sirs.

 

[Sparkyninja]

Even if she was misguided and screwed our country over, at least she believed she was doing the right thing.

Who doesn't?

I do atleast admire her for her sheer resolve, I almost appriciate her for the Anglo-Irosh agreement, even if that idea would go down badly with my parents.

A lot of people remember her for the Falklands, her radical if not insane changes to the economy and taxes; She deserves a foot note in my book for not compromising with terrorists and parlamilities in Northern Ireland, notably Republicans but also Loyalists, her ideas that a democratically elected government should never give in to the threats and demands of a few who would use violence to gain their aims is one I'd like to be continuely upheld.

 

[Mad Vader]

She deserves a foot note in my book for not compromising with terrorists and parlamilities in Northern Ireland, notably Republicans but also Loyalists, her ideas that a democratically elected government should never give in to the threats and demands of a few who would use violence to gain their aims is one I'd like to be continuely upheld.

It's documented that she negotiated with IRA in secret while publicly claiming otherwise. While this is a good idea, she did just that, negotiated with terrorists.

 

[Oberyn]

I don't get the "she killed British industry!" thing. Does no one realize that the mining and steel industry all over western Europe died? Same with the textile industry. It had nothing to do with Thatcher. It had everything to do with delocalisation, globalisation and the emergence of those same industries in "3rd world" countries that could easily outcompete the homegrown versions, by virtue of resting on essentially slave labour and not being shackled by the ridiculous constraints imposed by organized labour. Thatcher might have sped up the process, but it was inevitable.

 

[Mad Vader]

The complaint here is about doing it in a more socially sensitive way. Slower and costlier, but without screwing over whole communities overnight.

 

[Eктωρ]

Margaret Thatcher was Pinochet without a repression apparatus.

 

[Mage246]

So.... not Pinochet at all.

 

[Eктωρ]

The point of what I said went completely over your head.

 

[Mage246]

Or was it too beneath me to notice?

 

[Adorno]

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/owen-jones-thatcherism-was-a-national-catastrophe-that-still-poisons-us-8564858.html

I don't agree with all of it but has some good points.

Britain was one of the most equal Western European countries before the Thatcherite project began, and is now one of the most unequal. 
Thatcherism is not just alive and well: it courses through the veins of British political life.
The current government goes where Thatcherism did not dare in its privatisation of the NHS and sledgehammering of the welfare state.

Her legacy lives on, and the British people need to step up root out all the weeds she left.
Especially the current attempts to privatize the NHS (National Health Services).

 

[Lord Burgess1]

Spoken like someone who doesn't know what's actually going on Adorno.