The IRON LADY is no more

Sad news, a great lady who had larger testicles than every of today's politicians combined. 

When I realised Margaret Thatcher was dead, I did a double fist pump and shouted, "Feckin' brilliant!"

Everyone around me was disgusted, and looking back, I suppose it was a little out of order....







Especially as I was the first paramedic at the scene.

"I dunno that Kim Jong-un bloke seems a resolute chap also."


 I think Kim Jong has been made to think he has biguns'. A little comparitive analysis would show differently.


 If measuring length...we will only take out enough to win.


 May Margaret RIP.




 

So, the Iron Lady has died....







Now I'll have to press my own shirts.

sharke


Personally I find it hilarious when comfortable people in the West who are living like royalty compared to 90% of the rest of the world, and could probably support twenty 3rd world families if only they gave up their western luxuries, denounce "greed."

Who denounced anything? I said greed will ultimately eat itself.
 
Your paragraph there doesn't square with Thatchers way either, as a fanboy you'd know that already though.  If the 3rd world is poor it must be their own fault according to your political logic, no?
 
A fanboy maybe but you couldn't just quietly pay your respects to the good lady, you had to put your two-pennorth of rhetoric in there.  Well you got what you wanted you provoked a response where personally I'd have rather just said my fond farewell.
 
Now if you could only stop your knuckles from dragging on the ground when you walk you probably be in less pain and less ready to strike out at an imaginary 'enemy'.  You do not know the current circumstances I live under so just button it, cowboy.
 
I consider myself very fortunate thank you, and not least because you are an ex-pat...

Wow Jonbouy, where does all the bitterness come from? Lol. 

Jonbouy, I'm beginning to think that you're just a nasty, unpleasant person. Can't think where I got that idea from. 

musicman100


Ms Thatcher passed

Quote from a fun book called "Rosie: Her Intimate Memoirs"
 
"One of these days they will have a woman PM in the House!" (... and everyone laughed!)
 
The book, supposedly written in or about 1905 or 1910, obviously knew what the Suffragette Movement was about then ... and yeah ... Maggie showed them, that not all men are that smart, either!

I don't think the Iron Lady was a very compassionate person.
I think some compassion is needed in politics.
But then again, I'm not allowed to talk about politics here, am I?

It would have been metal fatigue. Or rust.

I'm convinced of that whoever had been in power instead of Thatcher during those years would have had to do approximately the same painful decisions that she made. IMO the hard fact is that UK had huge capasity of totally outdated industry and world was changing. UK was in the very frontline of industrialisation, and reached the inevitable adaptation phase in frontline as well. Other countries went through the same during the following years.

I'm not saying things could not have been done somehow more smoothly, but painful change was inevitable, Thatcher or no Thatcher. It's just comforting to have someone to blame.

RIP... a strong leader and she wasn't afraid to stand up for what she believed. I cannot think of a leader in the western world who is anywhere near her caliber.

J

sharke


I think your posts speak for themselves Jonbouy. 

Well just have a look at your last one for some real good irony...
 
I'm saying nuthin', I'll just let you carry on shooting holes in your ceiling there, it's more fun.
 
Actually the media coverage here has been very dignified in contrast to the impression you are spilling out there.  The amount of gloating has been minimal even from those who had tangible greivances like those who lost children in her single-minded quest for personal glory in an adventure to preserve the soveriegnty of many less folk than perished in a conflict that was caused by the British governments complacency and forgetting to check they had left the back door unlocked so anyone could have walked in. 
 
Some figured it would take a lunatic to attempt to take those islands back after troops walked in that open back door.  They were probably right.  She made many mistakes that have become clear over the course of history, seeing Mandela as a terrorist notably being one, and rightly some don't have a rose-tinted view.  She'd have gained a lot more universal respect had she been less reluctant for turning.  She may well have ended up being truly great in the same way as Mr Mandela's eventual passing will undoubtedly be percieved by a large majority.
 
She cut a very sad figure ultimately, dumped and further sidelined by her own party over time, and I can't think of anyone I know that would delight in that or attempt to make any mileage out of it.
 
So I will re-iterate with full sincerity.
RIP Margaret.

the General Belgrano?  That is one Phoenix that ain't gonna rise.

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Jonbouy,

you know what Karl Marx's mum said.  She wished her boy would write less about  Kapital and earn more.  Mothers, never satisified.  ;-)

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