sylus":295yd0w8 said:Like most politicians we hate them when they are not doing what we want and love them when they are doing what we want
There are by some, rose tinted glasses on when it comes to thatcher and the miners. Successive governments both tories and labour had bowed to the unions so much that it cost more to send men down the mines than they ever brought up, as a mining industry look around at the markets and you will see we never would have competed against most coal producers now let alone then. The ship yards were more victims of their overpricing and overseas cheaper building than thatcher.
I think when some claim those who do not have the same blinkered view that every thing was thatchers fault, they forget many of those who voted her in for 3 terms still had fresh in their memories the winter of discontent..much in the way we are unhappy with the way the tories are currently not great... but no one is foolish to forget 13 years of labour before it.
On the domestic front she gave people choices, what people did with those choices was more up to them than her..on the international front she raised us from a has been country into the key player punching well above our weight that we are today and that is something many of us still wish we had ..a politician who would put Britain first again
highlandsflyer":1bdrew41 said:shovelon":1bdrew41 said:Age 56.
Very interesting. Only 2 British Prime Ministers worth remembrance is Winston Churchill, and Margaret Thatcher.
Thatcher was a very commanding figure during the Falklands war, viewed with awe around the world.
Tough love anyone?
...and how many Presidents are worthy of remembrance?
Nope, I was 9 years old when he died. His death and funeral was big news in the U.S. Right along with body counts from Vietnam.highlandsflyer":2zds5uu1 said:Ah, so we are talking about Prime Ministers during your life time as well?
Then Churchill is added as a token of the past?
greenstiles":3fkrgad0 said:When you are having a good time it's easy to think it must be the present government and when you have a bad time it must be the present government.......blah blah, the fact is we are just figures and numbers to them wether useful ones or part of the problem.
Saying you support one party or the other and trying to pretend 'your party is best' is just small minded crap in my opinion..........not one party ever has or ever will be 'good' for everyone. It's always about winners and losers, that's how capitalism works. We can't all have wealth, that would not work.
I don't celebrate any death in history apart from people like hitler, idi armene etc.........thatcher was just a strong talking leader with slightly more unsavory policies than some...........too much fuss is being made of her, she doesn't deserve it or a state funeral, a respectful one yes, but that is all.