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Post by JohnP on Apr 11, 2013 12:06:53 GMT 1
I too am sad at the way some people have reacted to her death as they are hurting her family not her.
I do not condone what is happening but in some ways I am not surprised. Thatcher persued a policy of divide and conquer. She was provocative and uncompromising creating the situations where desperate people felt they had no option but to take to the streets to try and protect their jobs and families. The miners dispute went on for months, it divided communities and families, smashed peoples lives and created divisions which are obviously still felt all these years on. The pole tax riots were also a result of her unbending policies and shows the desperation and division she kindled in ordinary people.
I did not want to hear cries of condemnation in Westminster yesterday either, again for the sake of the family and I think Labour MP's were right to stay away. What really stuck in my throat was the sniveling patronising tories who were singing her praises, many of them the same people who turned on her, stabbed her in the back and threw her out of Downing Street as soon as they thought her policies which they had all agreed to, were likely to loose the next election.
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Post by Cheeky Chops on Apr 12, 2013 10:36:02 GMT 1
I was really shocked when Alibi Brown on the Wright Stuff said that she would pay for the downloading of The Wicked Witch is Dead. People are so letting themselves down and acting like verbal mobs.
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Post by Cheeky Chops on Apr 12, 2013 10:37:28 GMT 1
That should read Alibhai-Brown by the way. Doh!
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Post by lib on Apr 12, 2013 13:41:46 GMT 1
CC I am suprised that Yasmin has shocked you, she has a an impeccable record of double standards.
Her living is made from racism, independent and evening standard columnist, and writing books on the subject.
Her comments on the Wright stuff in 2008 ref to white men should not apply for jobs the "We'd just walk in then wouldn't we" When challanged about it being a racist statement yes said 'of course it is"
Remember CC, if you are also married to a an establishment figure ie her husband is board member of the Financial Services Authority and you are a founder member of the British Muslims for secular democracy,( perhaps an oxymoron, ) maybe one thinks one is fireproof.
She does do token gestures, accepting gladly an MBE then returning it a couple of years later when Benjamin Zephaniah the rastafarian poet refused an OBE.
A complex character, CC, and of course she has the right as a we all have the right to free speech. Just wish some times people would not play to the public gallery.
ps I do read her column every week.
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Post by Cheeky Chops on Apr 12, 2013 14:44:14 GMT 1
Well I have gone right off her now.
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Post by lib on Apr 14, 2013 15:34:31 GMT 1
Some friends popped in for brunch, the conversation got round to this subject after an item on the radio news.
One of the ladies said 'You're Dad would have summed it up in one sentence" You know I agree with her.
"Watch out the Book Burners are here"
To quote my Dad.
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Post by Cheeky Chops on Apr 15, 2013 21:17:19 GMT 1
Scary isn't it Lib.
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Post by Fli on Apr 25, 2013 16:59:06 GMT 1
I'm sure you will all agree with me that this was Money well spent by the Tax Payer:- It has been announced that the Funeral Bill for M. Thatcher cost us all £3.6 Million pounds.
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Post by lib on Apr 25, 2013 17:39:10 GMT 1
Wow, so much less than we ( a tax payer) has spent on coffee expenses for the Civil Service. Seems a bargain to me.
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Post by 4STIX on Apr 25, 2013 18:04:50 GMT 1
Who's dead now !!
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