Margaret Thatcher dies

[MrGongGong]

Misguided because they voted for the wrong person. Very democratic ideas on this forum!!!

Not forgetting that the person who usually "wins" doesn't get the most votes
so very "democratic" indeed ............

What if they are ALL WRONG ?

and anyway you don't give a monkeys about "democracy" anyway ........... (neither did that nice mr Pinochet)

[anotherbob]

It looks like this thread has outived any usefulness it might have had, except for a couple of posters who are using it to excercise their "wit". Could someone chuck a football into no-man's land.

[Richard Barrett]

just because you haven't lived.

Where did this pearl of insight come from?

[Mr Pee]

Not forgetting that the person who usually "wins" doesn't get the most votes
so very "democratic" indeed ............

Ah yes, that old chestnut again. Under the electoral system we have in this country, Lady Thatcher was victorious in three consecutive general elections, each time with a very healthy majority, the like of which today's political leaders can only dream.

And I seem to recall that in a recent referendum on abandoning the first past the post system in favour of proportional representation, that alternative was overwhelmingly rejected.

I suppose all those voters were misguided as well. Or, as you might put it- (CAPS LOCK ON):- ALL WRONG.

[Nick Armstrong]

It looks like this thread has outived any usefulness it might have had, except for a couple of posters who are using it to excercise their "wit". Could someone chuck a football into no-man's land.

Don't hold your breath, abob

[ahinton]

Where did this pearl of insight come from?

His oyster card, perhaps.

No, actually, on second thoughts, it's barely even cultured.

MT once had a twinset-and-pearls image, as I recall. Not much insight, though.

[Flosshilde]

Ah yes, that old chestnut again. Under the electoral system we have in this country, Lady Thatcher was victorious in three consecutive general elections, each time with a very healthy majority, the like of which today's political leaders can only dream.

Thatcher: 1979 - 43; 1983 - 144; 1987 - 102

Blair: 1979 - 179; 2001 - 167; 2005 - 66

Blair comprehensively beat Thatcher on size of majority, length of tenure as PM, and wasn't booted out by his own party (unfortunately )

[Richard Barrett]

His oyster card, perhaps.

No, actually, on second thoughts, it's barely even cultured.

MT once had a twinset-and-pearls image, as I recall. Not much insight, though.

Do be quiet.

I would just like to know from Beef Oven how he has come to know so much about my employment history during the 1980s as to make such an assertion.

[MrGongGong]

Ah yes but " Under the electoral system we have in this country" we have to pretend that Thatcher was a heroine
because that's what the script says ............. I don't know , he will be telling us we don't live in Europe next

[eighthobstruction]

Here's a few more statistics Pee....

!982 Number of Coal Mines in South Yorkshire 56

!989 .................................................. ........2

Lets say 500 workers at each mine................26,000 unemployed and that is just South Yorkshire

Lets say each worker has a spouse and 2 children....104, 000 people.....just in South Yorkshire....

[teamsaint]

Here's a few more statistics Pee....

!982 Number of Coal Mines in South Yorkshire 56

!989 .................................................. ........2

Lets say 500 workers at each mine................26,000 unemployed and that is just South Yorkshire

Lets say each worker has a spouse and 2 children....104, 000 people.....just in South Yorkshire....

Rule 1. Divide and rule.
Rule 2. Break centres of opposition.
Rule 3. Blame somebody or something else.
Rule 4. Tell everybody it HAS to be done.
Rule 5. Don't worry if they aren't likely vote for you anyway.

Yup, she taught New Labour well.

[BBMmk2]

Rule 1. Divide and rule.
Rule 2. Break centres of opposition.
Rule 3. Blame somebody or something else.
Rule 4. Tell everybody it HAS to be done.
Rule 5. Don't worry if they aren't likely vote for you anyway.

Yup, she taught New Labour well.

That's about sums them up!

[Mr Pee]

Thatcher: 1979 - 43; 1983 - 144; 1987 - 102

Blair: 1979 - 179; 2001 - 167; 2005 - 66

Blair comprehensively beat Thatcher on size of majority, length of tenure as PM, and wasn't booted out by his own party (unfortunately )

I wasn't talking about Blair- I said TODAY'S political leaders.

Here's a few more statistics Pee....

!982 Number of Coal Mines in South Yorkshire 56

!989 .................................................. ........2

Lets say 500 workers at each mine................26,000 unemployed and that is just South Yorkshire

Lets say each worker has a spouse and 2 children....104, 000 people.....just in South Yorkshire....

Yes, a tragedy for those communities, and one that could have been avoided had Arthur Scargill not decided to call a strike without a ballot to further his own Marxist crusade. For him, the miners were little more than a means to an end, and he is as much to blame as anybody else for the destruction of that industry.

[teamsaint]

Scargill, whatever anybody thinks of him, told it how it was going to be. He knew what was coming.
Without him Thatcher would still have closed the mines.
Doesn't make him a saint.

[Richard Barrett]

I said TODAY'S political leaders.

I believe Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan won his last presidential election with 91.15% of the popular vote. I'm sure he would have met with Thatcher's approval.