Thread: Margaret Thatcher To Be Honored

Originally Posted by keda

Originally Posted by William

...And I never I understood why the Liberals were not (and still aren't really) [post 1940] taken seriously in the UK

Didn't it have something to do with their gay leader in the 60s, which set them off to where they belong in a long and cold wilderness? Come to think of it so many of their leaders have been gay, is that a job requirement?

Defected from passionately though misguidedly Labour to confessed Tory, without a glance at the ditherers.

I've never really understood why sexual preferences are so important to some.

Originally Posted by William

Originally Posted by keda

Originally Posted by William

...And I never I understood why the Liberals were not (and still aren't really) [post 1940] taken seriously in the UK

Didn't it have something to do with their gay leader in the 60s, which set them off to where they belong in a long and cold wilderness? Come to think of it so many of their leaders have been gay, is that a job requirement?

Defected from passionately though misguidedly Labour to confessed Tory, without a glance at the ditherers.

I've never really understood why sexual preferences are so important to some.

Each to his own as long as they keep me out of it, but the 60s happened some 40 years ago, and as I recall in those days people were less than tolerant to gays in office. Also consider, around that time buggery was frowned upon. Come far, haven't we?

Best thing that ever happened to the UK during my lifetime. Maggie dragged Britain into modernity despite the worst intentions of backwards portions of the population (Labour supporters) who were hell bent on dragging the country into the dark ages.

I knew you'd be along to stick up for her.

Maggie was the knees.Go the Iron Lady!

Originally Posted by Little Chuchok

Maggie was the knees.Go the Iron Lady!

Jesus H Christ!
Most of us who were around at the time pretty much anywhere in the UK could spend the rest of our lives posting this thread about how evil this "Lady" was.
Enough said.
I won't touch this thread again.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Best thing that ever happened to the UK during my lifetime.

yup, tell that to the hundreds of thousands of normal people that lost their livelihoods during her evil reign.

And what would have happened to those people today?Still at the mines??I don't think so somehow.

go on then Chuch.
Give me an example of something positive that the bitch did for anyone on less than 50,000 pound a year.

Oh yes, she let them buy their council houses cheap which meant there were none left at all.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

go on then Chuch.
Oh yes, she let them buy their council houses cheap which meant there were none left at all.

Strangely, a policy that the Labour Party re-introduced just this week

The ones that bought the council houses would have been happy.That's positive.

What would have happened to the "workers" that lost their jobs.If Maggie had not been around,do you think they would still be employable today?

Not that theses "dark ages", whatever that's supposed to mean, would have had any impact on your career prospects as an English teacher in Thailand...

Jeez scooter,I'm just pissing on nooners chips..

I know your full of shite Chuchock.
It's Marmite that worries me.
I think he means it.
He's the first real life tory I have ever met.

And a colonial supremacist to boost. Still thinks civilisation in Pakistan or the ME ceased to exist when the Empire withdrew.

Originally Posted by stroller

And a colonial supremacist to boost. Still thinks civilisation in Pakistan or the ME ceased to exist when the Empire withdrew.

Didn't it? I haven't done the entire colonial trip but of the former civilisations visited, though remnants of the Empire exist they are neglected and in abject disrepair, barely allowed to survive as a tragic memory of better times. Read this as empirical observation rather than a subscription to colonialism, and of course the era of European colonisation of much of the world was viewed very differently than they are today.

That the Brits (read much of Europe) nicked what they could while they could is one matter, but there's no doubt at all and the proof lies everywhere in ruins, that their retreat to familiar shores from much of the Empire signalled the resumption to natures of backwardness, despotism, overt corruption and the degeneration of entire social structures.

A fair argument is that times have changed and some nations simply couldn't keep up, but when one looks at the map objectively, so many of these lands are so wealthy in natural resources that the only excuse they have for kneeling towards economic and through this social dysfunction is an inate inability to cope with any movement forward. Common humanity aside, this is why they need to be carried, as part of today's politically correct demand for a permanent guilt trip; we are the cause, therefore we must make good.

Exploitation is one thing, and true that it did and to a lesser extent still exists, but this cannot fairly be used to mitigate the suspension of progress and develpment across vast tracts of the world.

Rant for today.