Thread: Lady Thatcher to be Honored with State Funeral

Best thing to come out of Britain since the Mayflower.

We could get Elvis Costello to play "Tramp the Dirt Down".

I'd dance to it.

For all you uncultered slobs, here's an excerpt of the lyrics:

"Well I hope I dont die too soon
I pray the lord my soul to save
Oh Ill be a good boy, Im trying so hard to behave
Because theres one thing I know, Id like to live
Long enough to savour
Thats when they finally put you in the ground
Ill stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down"

I'll lived thru her time at #10. In my town we went from 8% unemployment to over 25%. I hope she rots in hell.

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

Funny how they were elected after she left office!!!!!!!!!!!!

1997 to 2008 Eleven years

Surely you aren't blaming poor John Major for the legacy Thatcher lumbered him with.

Thatcher should be buried in the Falkland islands.

^Wow, jail gives you alot of time to prepare a statement. All true, mind you. She was a Kunt.

obviously

Bury the cnut upside down.
She fucked the country.

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Stops free milk for school children, later deregulates school meals so all they have on the menu is burger and chips! The health of the nation was not her concern.

Shamelessly used the 'race card' to get elected PM.

Her idols are Keith Joseph (who ruined his own chance of being leader by going on TV and talking about sterilising the poor) and Enoch Powell.

In the first of her two recessions (the worst since the 1930's), one fifth of our industrial base is wiped out and unemployment is more than doubled, there are summer riots in every inner-city in the country. Not bad for her first 2 years in office.

The Falklands! In a gross piece of incompetence (or was it deliberate?) fails to avert the Falklands crisis by ignoring intelligence on the Argentine preparation for invasion in early 1982. Indeed she seems to positively encourage it by proposing scrapping the only warship we have there and having her defence secretary Nicholas Ridley openly say we didn't want the Falklands, thereby giving the impression we are not bothered about the islands! In 1978 when faced with the same intelligence, the Labour government quietly averts a war through diplomatic channels by threatening to send a taskforce. It's the classic tale, to divert attention from disastrous economic policies at home a crooked leader engages in a foreign war (except I'm not talking about Galtieri!). Perhaps Thatcher was getting advise from some of the brutal dictatorships she helped prop up in South America, "Would you like some more tea Mr Pinochet?". Number of British soldiers killed, 278, Argentines, 3000+. Blood on her hands anyone?

Destruction of local democracy. The popular GLC was scrapped despite over 80% of Londoners being opposed. Londoners have to wait over 13 years before getting an assembly back and electing Livingstone as its leader once again.

Under Thatcher VAT increased from 8% to 17.5% and was also levied on utility bills for the first time as well. What she gave the rich in income tax cuts she took from the poor in indirect taxation.

The myth of the strong leader. This was a total invention of the press. Thatcher's only strength (if you could call it that) was that she had no principles at all! She was an anti-smoking campaigner who ended up on the payroll of British American Tobacco. She had to do a U-turn on her 'flagship' economic policy after 2 years because she had wrecked the economy (This was just one year after her famous speech in 1980 where she assured the party faithful she was going to stick to monetarist policies-"You turn if you want to...the lady's not for turning"-yeah right!!). The Poll Tax was a disaster which she had to U-turn on (but too late to save her from being stabbed in the back!). She went to Europe saying she was against federalism but signed its most federalist law (the Single European Act in 1986). She later claimed she was tricked on this. Did she even know what she was doing? Some strong leader that is! And to top it all off, even in departure she was weak. "I fight on, I fight to win" she said in her pompous way before quietly resigning hours later when confronted by Ministers like Geoffrey Howe!!! It was the final U-turn from a weak puppet leader whose only qualities (as far as the Tories were concerned) were she did what she was told.

The womans a dregg and she deserves to suffer like so many did under her rule.

Nicely put:banhim1:

Somebody contact A Scargill and tell him he was right.