Egg On Her Face

[gulliver1]

A statue of a Thatcher was covered in eggs only two hours after being erected in her home town of Grantham at a cost of £300.000,after plans to install it in Parliament Square were abandoned for fear it would be vandalised. Wonder if Eggwina Currie was there.?

[DTCwordfan]

though I wouldn't mind throwing any future Corbyn statue into a Czechoslovakian compost heap......

[gulliver1]

I am very, very pleased that Thatcher is History.

[gulliver1]

That way ,she can not do anymore damage .

[Deskdiary]

I know it was TIC, but there’ll never be a statue of Corbyn because he never has and never will achieve anything, whereas Thatcher was the greatest post-war PM we’ve had, and is thoroughly deserving of a statue.

[jourdain2]

I agree Deskdiary. I couldn't agree with all her policies by any means (the memories of the brutality of the miners' strike linger long in the North and that should never, ever have happened) but she was undeniably a great P.M. and, as I used to say at the time, 'At least you knew where you were with her'.
The egg-chucker is pathetic and I hope he is disciplined at work and made to pay the cost of the clean-up.

[Paigntonian]

Surely we should celebrate the fact that she was our first female PM?

[mushroom25]

// covered in eggs //

one protestor. 3 eggs. 2 missed. hardly call that "covered", and I don't think he'll receive a call-up for the England cricket team any time soon.

[gulliver1]

Thatcher was Bad enough , but who would have thought the UK would have another one ,equally as bad 20 years later.

[gulliver1]

The police are considering charging the person that threw the eggs with Criminal Damage.
They should have charged Thatcher with Criminal damage and more, for what she did to the miners.

[david small]

When she became Prime Minister both my wife and myself cried. We knew what was to come, we were not wrong.
Love her or hate her? I detest her and her legacy. 1979 The year the UK foundered on the rocks of Thatcher.

[DTCwordfan]

The Matt cartoon from the Telegraph today....as to the wastage/irresponsibility of throwing eggs in these times....
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FS5bESwWYAEXTQz?format=png&name=small

[maggiebee]

Saw it suggested on FB that the statue should have been put on a low loader and towed round the country so more folk could have a pop!

[naomi24]

15.42. Labour closed more mines than Mrs Thatcher, Gulliver.

[youngmafbog]

Well one thing this thread is good for is to out the far left.

[youngmafbog]

When she became Prime Minister both my wife and myself cried with joy.

We knew what was to come, we were not wrong. It was a fabulous time.

[DTCwordfan]

Far more mines, Gulliver, your Harold Wilson closed 253 in his two terms in office between 1964 and 1976 and the Thatch closed 115.

[youngmafbog]

//15.42. Labour closed more mines than Mrs Thatcher, Gulliver.//

Very true Naomi, the left on here have been told it many times but continue to ignore solid( and easily looked up) facts

[naomi24]

I detested her - but then I’d been raised in a poor home in the East End of London by staunch Labour parents and, in my defence, glowing with the allegedly perfect ideology of the benefits of Communism, I had never considered any other option, wrongly convinced that the only ‘workers’ were the ‘working class’. What rubbish that is. The first time I can honestly say I felt for Mrs Thatcher was when her own people stabbed her in the back. I thought that was terrible. There’s nothing to recommend disloyalty. Then Tony Blair came along and had me dancing around at the wonderful news. Victory!!! Euphoria!!!

I voted for him … once.

In retrospect Mrs Thatcher was the best thing for this country since sliced bread, as ‘they’ say. I never voted Labour again - and nor would I. The party of the working man has not been for the working man for a very long time. Labour is an on-going, impossibly idealistic shambles.

Here endeth a bit of my life story. If you’ve dozed off you can wake up now. :o)

[gulliver1]

Thatcher was not just the UKs first female P/M .
She was also The UKs first Evil female P/M,

[gulliver1]

Thatcher ..hated the working class.