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So!
Did she save the country or sell it out? Bit of both? (US people you can replace her with Reagan).
Contentious issue in the UK - I was checking my phone and got the notification of her death - said to my mate "Thatcher is dead" , and pretty much everyone on the platform was like "REALLY?!"
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Ding dong, the bitch is dead
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I didnt agree with her politics, but she was a strong woman RIP
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I am entirely indifferent to her death. I really couldn't care. She was nothing to me or anyone around me and hasn't directly affected my life. There's a lot of hate on the internet though.. nasty stuff.
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So was Myra HindleyOriginally Posted by miss k bee
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Was Myra Hindley in politics???
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No, but she was a strong woman.
Just because she was strong in her opinions doesn't mean we should respect her. Let's put in a new female PM who we don't have to be ashamed of as a nation, and let's praise her strength.
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Well she was better than this streak of piss government we have now!.
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In what way
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I'd argue they're as bad as each other - at least Cameron is working FOR gay rights (which I still don't believe and am sure there's an ulterior motive).
Then again, I have no idea who to vote for next election as I can't justify supporting Lib Dem as long as Clegg is in charge.
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She almost certainly will have affected your life... the financial crisis is hitting Ireland pretty hard, Thatcher was instrumental in the deregulation of financial services
Also her denying hunger strikers political status caused a massive spike in violence in Northern Ireland - but if that hasn't affected you or anyone you know, that's great
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Forever happy that I was in Northern Ireland today for when she died to see the absolute glee on people's faces.
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best day for facebook ever, civil war on my friends list
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Oh, RTE, you never disappoint:
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Glasgow keeping it classy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-22072150
"Glasgow City Council have urged people to stay away from the city's George Square after hundreds gathered to mark the death of Baroness Thatcher."
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A great night to work in media/news monitoring - not!
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Also, the biggest online-only news site in Ireland gave us perhaps the greatest typo ever today:
"Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister, has died from a strike at the age of 87."
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I would have only been a young child at the time, as would my friends. Also, I don't think you could link her to our current financial crisis, considering how good things were in our celtic tiger years and how much banks were administering loans and mortgages to people who could never, ever pay them back. This was our biggest downfall after having it so good, as far as I'm aware.
On the other hand I know very little about politics and you're probably right. I heard of all the horrid things she did in power but never linked them to any of the conditions I grew up in.
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Those loans being pretty much a result of the deregulation she put in place...
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Most of the the Irish in the UK certainly hated her, im second generation Irish, and grew up in an massively Irish area of North London in the 80s and majority hated her with a passion. Dear god the profanity.
Im amazed she made it out alive to be honest, i found the Section 28 bill the most repulsive piece of legislation during her whole 11 years.
But oddly i still felt sad when i heard the news. cant put my finger on it, Feels like the end of an era or something.
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Ah, never thought of that, thank you! I'm not really entirely up to date on politics as I should be..
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It's like, NOW whose grave do we plan to dance on?
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I'd say Iain Duncan Smith is setting himself up pretty nicely with his £53 a week comments
The sheer amount of suicides that are in the post will win Milliband the election - I seriously hope I turn out to be wrong, but honestly I can't see it unfolding any other way. And when you consider how smart the tories are & how they must surely know what will happen... pretty chilling, really.
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Ian Paisley?
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Papers are late tonight - wonder why? Appearently there is partying outside Brixton police station!
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if the daily mirror doesn't print pictures of thatcher with savile tommorow, I will assume invasion of the bodysnatchers is actually happening :P
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If the headline doesn't read something along the lines of "who screwed more miners" then something is definitely wrong
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I will ugly-cackle when he kicks it.
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How did she die? All I've heard is in the Ritz at 87 - talk about having the last laugh. I hated her at the time but it almost seemed like it was the done thing to do from watching the Young Ones too much, I wasn't a political person - I think she was a bit mad personally towards the end of her 'reign'.
Now looking back, I think she helped create the obsession with owning your own home and the way it's made the country so dependent on house prices whereas other countries don't have this stigma towards renting. It created classes of people - home owners, those who don't who can't afford to get on the ladder - and the fact that the money made from selling your house has equalled a pension since the government pension is so shit
I don't like what she did about manufacturing, I don't know what she could have done to save some of it, but she could have been less cruel about that and the miners, maybe closing mines less suddenly
I definitely agree we should have protected the Falklands though, if the people wanted to remain british, we owed it to help them
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