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Originally Posted by Bifta
1) She's a hypocrit who extolled the virtue of self sufficiency while she married above her station to an alcholic with a roller,
2) Privatisation, how many train crashes will it take?
3) It's all very well taking a tough stance on terrorism but she managed to indirectly swell the ranks of the IRA far more than Bloody Sunday ever did.
4) Where is Britains manufacturing industry?
5) Poll tax, everyone above 16 above a pitiful wage threshold had to pay it, or risk a spell in chokey.
6) The Belgrano? Why?
7) Wasn't she best buddies with Pinochet?
8) We are a mass importer of coal .. yet she saw fit to close down our own mines.
9) Milk for kids! (thanks debsy  )
I could go on for hours, but I'd rather not waste any more effort on her, I experienced the meteoric rise in unemployment under her when I left school and I can't say it's an experience I'd want to relive.
The flags will be out over here the day she's takes the elevator down but I can guarantee you it won't be in mourning. |
1. The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive. If she actually loved Denis, (and it seems from her reaction at his death that she really, really did) why would it represent an abandonment of her principles to marry him, just because he was rich?
2. An act of the Major Government, not Thatcher. Incredibly stupid, but not something you can attribute to her.
3. Not something I'm qualified to comment on, really - you are in a better position to know than me!
4. Do we need a manufacturing industry? (This is a serious question about globalisation, I'm not being facetious)
5. A good principle, incompetently applied. The idea that everyone pays for services they use is sound. The Poll Tax, however, took far too little account of ability to pay.
6. The invasion - why?
7. Yes. Same as any world leader is best buddies with whichever despotic madman it is expedient to be best buddies with. It stinks, but it's how world affairs works so I don't think it's fair to single her out for it.
8. Our coal imports will drop as our aging power stations are decommissioned. Coal is not an environmentally benign fuel, either to mine or to burn. We are better off without it.
9. How far should the Government of a mature democracy go in enforcing nutrition on the population? (Another serious question - it's all to easy to caricature someone as a demon, especially in policies relating to children. defend the policy of free school milk.)