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I've been arguing with a few people on Facebook because if you ask me, it's fucking disgusting how they're treating her death... we're becoming an embarrassment to the country, now I know why so many southerners take the piss out of us by saying we're barbaric and uncivilized, this is a great example.
I find it even worse that nobody is thinking of her family and what they're going through, or the good things she did, it's basically just a group of grumpy ex-miners who are mad about losing their jobs, because y'know, it's impossible for them to find a job, do they not realise it's been 22 years since she's been in power of the country, I'm pretty sure anyone can get a job in that time.
I find it even worse that nobody is thinking of her family and what they're going through, or the good things she did, it's basically just a group of grumpy ex-miners who are mad about losing their jobs, because y'know, it's impossible for them to find a job, do they not realise it's been 22 years since she's been in power of the country, I'm pretty sure anyone can get a job in that time.
What she did back then was so vile, so damaging, etc, that the hatred she gets is largely justified. However, we need to move on, and for her funeral at least she should be left alone by both the haters and the tories who are glorifying her. That's the problem: people are trying to counter the news reports praising her as the best politician of the last century - and look at how she is being treated, a funeral never gifted to a Prime Minister, but used for Princess Diana; flags at half mast; worldwide coverage. They did not to the same for Teddy Heath or any of the other dead former Prime Ministers. Both sides have blown it entirely out of proportion.
Yeah, but think about Neville Chamberlain, he's the guy that sent us into war, I mean sure, it's nice to help out other countries, but how many of our men were killed? How many cities were bombed? Now those are real reasons to actually hate someone and glorify their death, but nobody actually did... I'd rather cheer for someones death that got almost 400,000 people killed, than a woman that made some bad decisions that could easily be fixed... I mean, I'm pretty sure we could open some mines back up...
She specifically blew them up to make sure they could never, ever be reopened again. Other countries just closed them and reopened them when they were profitable again. For years we'd subsidised the mines when they were doing badly, in the knowledge that every time they hit a boom it would level it out again.
She did a lot of crap that really damaged the country. The council housing shortage (we're down 1 million homes that we need) is entirely down to her right to buy scheme which saw council homes sold off but never replaced.
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if I was British and I had lived through Thatcher's reign
I'd be celebrating her death too.
if I was British and I had lived through Thatcher's reign
I'd be celebrating her death too.
Not to mention slandering the names of the 96 dead at Hillsborough, blaming them for their own deaths, despite it being the Police's fault entirely (something we've only just found out thanks to a big cover-up); killing off the UK's car, steel, coal, and rail industries; and further, putting the city of Liverpool in a "managed decline".
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Amy":2vyzyjct said:
I kind of thought the UK car industry killed itself with its utter inability to produce cars that could drive more than five feet off the lot without having something break?