THATCHER

[BayBoy1]

Thatchers Birthday today?

[douglas9401]

Question Author
wonder what Thatcher and cliff have got in common.??


Devil Woman?

[daisya]

A lot would agree with you Douglas lol.

[BayBoy1]

douglas 9401 stop it now , like your sense of humour...

[Prudie]

Like it or not millions supported Maggie

[Gromit]

Churchill got a state funeral, but he led us through WWII. Thatcher led us during the Falklands but that was largely self inflicted because she scrapped HMS Endurance, the vessel that was protecting them.

Perhaps a burial at sea would be appropriate. Say in International waters while heading away from the islands.

[stewey]

Your parents/and or you voted her in as the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century. Does this indicate that politicians and the general populace share a common mentality?

[Answerprancer]

Like it or not millions regretted it.

[FredPuli43]

For those with short memories:Millions voted for her because they liked the idea that the unions shouldn't run the country or hold an elected government to ransom and that they should be democratic, that people should be allowed to buy their council houses, that we should stand up to the EU...Why do elements of the left regard her as a hate figure? It can't just be her mad idea for poll tax.

But a state funeral is a daft idea. She wasn't Churchill.

[BayBoy1]

yes PRUDIE you are so correct,like it or not millions supported thatcher,we still are supporting her,she claimed 535 000 pounds from the public purse in the past couple of years .

[Quizmonster]

"People should be allowed to buy their council houses," eh, Fred? That was no doubt wonderful for the people who did buy their council houses THEN, but what of the multitude of young couples TODAY who have nowhere to live because there is no longer a stock of such houses for them?
If Thatcher had been bright enough to rule that every council had to build a new house to replace the one sold, things would have been very different, but the short-term advantage to her was too compelling, I daresay.

[friedgreentomato]

As does Blair and every other ex Prime minister.

[emmie]

perhaps if someone had the balls to renovate the hundreds of thousands of empty properties around the country then maybe they wouldn't be so many on housing lists, or indeed need to keep on papering over green belt land or killing off the south of England with much over development. I only have to look at our borough, it's full to brimming with empty homes, shops and heaven knows what, time someone had the bright idea of doing something about it.

[emmie]

she won't get a state funeral, nor should she. I was a supporter of hers, and indeed of the party, but quite frankly i wouldn't give tuppence for any of the party now, nor Labour, as to the Lib Dems could they be any more wet.

[Tilly2]

As a coalminer's daughter, I shall open a bottle to celebrate..............when she's gone.

[ummmm]

Harsh!! She's a person. We shouldn't wish people dead.

[emmie]

just like some to wish a person dead, no respect, would you say the same about Brown, Blair, don't expect so.

[ummmm]

I was quite young in the Thatcher years. My Grandad loved her....I wonder why? money money money.

[Tilly2]

I don't wish her dead. I shall be glad when she's gone, though.

[ummmm]

More or less the same.