Margaret Thatcher dies

[BBMmk2]

It wasn't inadvertent. Your first post retains your own title. The House Rules also say - since you have yourself quoted them - "please do not start topics or post messages which are designed to be provocative". You must know that some members - albeit a small minority - would find that title provocative.

I know that feelings run very high on this topic, but something more analytical (and critical, it goes without saying) would be welcome.

Which is the main reason why I started this thread.

[Serial_Apologist]

Strikingly Baroness Thatcher always would not allow the Treasury to attack child benefit ! Says a lot about this current shower. I suspect she would never have countenanced the attacks on the rule of law either .

Forseeing what was inevitably to come, one of her first acts was to give the Boys in Blue a large pay increase.

[Serial_Apologist]

Must now go and see how CH 4 News covers this - they're usually less beholden than the Beeb.

[eighthobstruction]

Na, I was just poking GG with it :o

Peter Riddle on R4 9pm will tell us how close we came to using Submarine launched nuclear weapons during the Falklands....

[BBMmk2]

Must now go and see how CH 4 News covers this - they're usually less beholden than the Beeb.

I see that too SA! They are OTT, imo. I have music on right now Rach's Symp no.,3!

[Beef Oven]

Naming Fred.

How about "Maggie's dead, and the boys and girls on the Friends Of Radio3 Forum got their knickers in a twist about it (as usual)"?

[mercia]

from wikipedia

By 1983, manufacturing output had dropped by 30% from 1978. The productivity turnaround from labour-shedding proved to be a one-off, and was not matched by growth in output. The industrial base was so reduced that thereafter the balance of payments in manufactured goods was in deficit. In 1983 Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson told the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade:

There is no adamantine law that says we have to produce as much in the way of manufactures as we consume. If it does turn out that we are relatively more efficient in world terms at providing services than at producing goods, then our national interest lies in a surplus on services and a deficit on goods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiership_of_Margaret_Thatcher

Isn't that exactly the policy that the present government is trying to reverse to get us out of our present economic predicament ?

[eighthobstruction]

That's a very interesting quote Mercia....

[Barbirollians]

The destruction of Britain's large manufacturing industries and the mass unemployment engendered was a deliberate policy designed to destroy the trade unions .

[Mr Pee]

It wasn't inadvertent. Your first post retains your own title. The House Rules also say - since you have yourself quoted them - "please do not start topics or post messages which are designed to be provocative". You must know that some members - albeit a small minority - would find that title provocative.

I know that feelings run very high on this topic, but something more analytical (and critical, it goes without saying) would be welcome.

The thread title now seems to say "Margaret Thatcher dies".

So what happened to the RIP bit?

[french frank]

The destruction of Britain's large manufacturing industries and the mass unemployment engendered was a deliberate policy designed to destroy the trade unions .

This quote from Macmillan, Lord Stockton: "Sixty-three years ago... the unemployment figure (in Stockton-on-Tees) was then 29%. Last November... the unemployment (there) is 28%. A rather sad end to one's life."

[Ferretfancy]

Rejoice!

[Bryn]

Thank you Frenchie for removing the highly provocative "R.I.P".

[Flosshilde]

Blessed are the literal....for they shall inherit the wrong end of the stick ....

[MrGongGong]

So what happened to the RIP bit?

I think you probably have worked that one out for yourself ?
I'm sure you can find a load of weeping sheep on the Daily Mail website if thats what you seek ................

So what music would YOU be playing this evening then Peester ?

how about Elgar's ...... The Windlass ?