General Chat

Absolutely Joy - although, as I am sure readers of the thread know, this is not an RIP thread but well said

RIP Maggie Thatcher. Whatever her politics, whatever people's views of her actions, she was still the first woman prime minister of my country, and she was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.

Condolences to her family and friends.

I wonder how tomorrow's newspapers will play it after all the media coverage today

I hope that doesn't point at me IGP I was as subtle as I could be!

And again, and that applies to all who are stirring it.

(Bit of friendly advice from me ................. keep silent for once!, that is)

As I said this morning, the alternative will otherwise end in tears for all those sucked in.

With hindsight, it’s easy pinpoint changes which have had an adverse effect, such as the sell of council houses without replacing the stock. On the other hand, many tenants benefitted and were grateful to have the opportunity to get on the housing ladder.

She also confronted the Unions. You may say that the UK is now ruled by the needs of financiers, but at least we are no longer being ruled by a minority group of Marxists who thought they could bring the country to its knees.

Perhaps this view is caused by the north/south divide since most of the coal fields were ‘north’.

me too Lyndi - John stop winding up!

I too echo the very same....Thank you Silvia & Lyndi

K/Regards,
A/Canuck.

Echoes what SylviainCanada said ;-)

Just in case any individuals have misread or forgotten (easily done)...

"Add whatever you want on this thread.
It is not an RIP thread, more of a statement that she has died and a look back on what she did or did not do.
Just please don't let it turn nasty (not directed that at anyone in particular)"

John ..................


please do NOT start anything


If you had read through before posting, you would know.


Bit of friendly advice from me ................. keep silent for once!

sorry, Hayley :-D :-D



no it wasn't your fault!!


it was the "grass is greener" syndrome .............


or the "brain drain" ..................


which was HUGE in the late 1960s and 1970s.

We have few friends from university days in the UK .............. they're almost all overseas, having left between about 1965 and 1975.


There was also the "class" system which still existed in those days

Both of our accents (OH Cheshire, me Lancashire) were "wrong" for many of the positions that were available for people with OH's qualifications.

Is this the nice thread that is being sent to her family?

What happened to the nasty thread? :-S

Me too Hayley, the roof over our heads for one :-D

Less of the old :-P ;-)

Syvia that was the year I was born :-D its wasnt because of me you left was it :-D

Love her or hate her she will be a hughed part of the UK history having grown up in working class Thatchers Britain I have mixed feelings about her but as I was saying to a very dear old friend just now I have a lot to thank her for :-D

well her son Mark was not very nice to her - Carole always was there for her Mum, but she was always picking up the pieces after him

She will be be mourned by her children deeply they held her in high regard first as a mother and then leader of their country thats really all that matters.

Me? I shall ever remember her only for her being spurned and outed as PM after 3 years of office by her own party,a joyous occasion for many.

to mnay things have been forgotten that people wanted to string her up for.!

she wont be mourned in her home town they dont even want a statue of her,,,,,,,, :-D,

She was a Barrister,,,,,,maybe she had been better at that.>

We left the UK in 1967, well before Margaret Thatcher became PM ....... so I have nothing I can say about her political life, or the realities of life in 1970s and later Britain that is not mostly based on hearsay and from the media


However, she was .......

............ a human being,

............ someone's wife, mother, grandmother,

.............a woman who achieved one heck of a lot in her lifetime, after being born into a lower middle class life as a grocer's daughter,

............ got herself a good education by virtue of having high intelligence, which allowed her to win a scholarship to a top secondary school, ad then another one to Oxford

............. and, had a successful career as a research scientist (chemist) before moving into politics because she thought she had something to offer the country


For those reasons alone, one must feel sorry that she has died, yet glad that her suffering is finally over.


It is surely far too strong to say that one "hates" her .................. she was not an intrinsically evil person like some criminals are.


I, for one, say RIP Margaret Thatcher, and condolences to her family.





sylvia

didnt do too well on the interviews in durham on the bbc news channell
one lady had a bottle of champagne in her fridge she had been saving for today

were not that flash just a bottle of veu de verne

quick edit
done a count on 2 scooter forums
lcgb celebrating 16 sad 5 dont know can see both sides 1

wkfa celebrating 5 sad 2
anyway as someone said there is a time and a place

the time is now the place is the pub so im off for a drink or 3