Margaret Thatcher dies

[MrGongGong]

No there won't be.....and your Mighty Wah! link was brill, but I was in sanctimoniuous grown-up serious adult mode

Well pack it in NOW
you know it will only end in misery ............

we might get a Chumba reformation out of this matey

(or even the return of Crass )

[Beef Oven]

"Mirror, mirror, on the wall; who is the fairest of them all?"

Yes, well done, it includes me. Now you look in the mirror too.

[MrGongGong]

I have friends in high places, so be careful, I might take you up on that

What drugs your kipper mates do is of no interest to me ................ (Batemans XXXB)

[Beef Oven]

What drugs your kipper mates do is of no interest to me ................ (Batemans XXXB)

Can't get Batemans around here.

[John Wright]

Oh GG, so you don't deny then that she and the nation showed guts to deal with the Argentinian aggressors so many thousands of miles away.

[Serial_Apologist]

(or even the return of Crass )

The multi pick-up conglomeration in free jazz/free improv that came to represent Crass did a quite recent return to The Vortex, where they'd previously had an end-of-monthly, a few months back, which I was unfortunately unable to get to. I think they still hang out in an old farmouse in the vicinity of Harlow, a welcoming for those wanting to drop in and/or maybe drop out.

[Beef Oven]

You also forgot the maimed, the invalids, the casualties, the housebound, the unambitious, Unmaterialistic, those who clear up after society doing the jobs other people wouldn't want to do because it would interfere with their consumerism....Underachievers ???Hmmmmm

You're reading too much between the lines.

[Beef Oven]

Or stupidity not to notice that they were sneaking in the back garden ?

aaah yes Lord Carrington , the last ethical tory ?

Get back on the other thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh GG, so you don't deny then that she and the nation showed guts to deal with the Argentinian aggressors so many thousands of miles away.

No he just forgot to mention it.

[eighthobstruction]

You put em there I'll read between em....

Hey you with the black eye ....play the piano
But, I aint got no black eye
Bop!!!!
Ching ding Ching....rinkydink

[Boilk]

Those who jump in and post malicious invective just a few hours after the death of an old and frail woman ...

A few hours or a few months, it will make no difference to the dead, but maybe offend some of the living.

I know people who suffered huge hardship under MT's policies, and others who benefited hugely (e.g. council home ownership which later saw handsome profits). In the case of Thatcher few modern politicans have so polarised a nation, so "extreme" responses are to be expected.

[MrGongGong]

Oh GG, so you don't deny then that she and the nation showed guts to deal with the Argentinian aggressors so many thousands of miles away.

I don't think the world is that simple.
I don't see that theres much to admire in supporting unethical regimes when it suits and having wars with them when it doesn't......
Many bad things are preventable with collaboration rather than competition
Thatcher did a classic Henry V move (as repeated by others since)
Nothing like a war to get you elected .........so let it fester and allow it to happen so you get your own way and end up as a chapter rather than a footnote in history (just like Tony did and so on )

(and who cares about teenage conscripts anyway ? they are only "Argies" )

I don't think a "Nation" can show anything in the way you describe unless it's in some kind of "gor blimey didn't we all pull together in the blitz" kind of narrative.

[John Wright]

Well, GG, I'm just trying to take things one at a time here, so you don't deny then that she and the nation showed guts to deal with the Argentinian aggressors so many thousands of miles away?

[Beef Oven]

Well, GG, I'm just trying to take things one at a time here, so you don't deny then that she and the nation showed guts to deal with the Argentinian aggressors so many thousands of miles away?

Left to this lot in here, we'd all be speaking German

[MrGongGong]

Well, GG, I'm just trying to take things one at a time here, so you don't deny then that she and the nation showed guts to deal with the Argentinian aggressors so many thousands of miles away?

I really don't go along with that narrative at all
which (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) is not to say (AGAIN ) that it's ok to invade another country (and that includes Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan etc etc etc )