Margaret Thatcher was she really that bad?

Morricone

As per title was Maggie T as bad as what is made out.

Yeah she might have pissed off a few of the working class and the IRA and its followers but she did what she felt was best for Britain and she did lead Britain on a prosperous economic upturn with her policies.

As a whole I feel that the history books will reflect quite well on her tenure in the years to come. She did achieve a hell of a lot as she became one of the first women to become a national leader in the Western world. She did a lot for the advancement of women.

All in all I think she did her best for her country and surely in Ireland we can recognise and respect that attribute.

Grayson

She was pretty good in the sack.

Nodin

Divisive, destructive cow. Promoted homophobic legislation, aided Pinochet, refused to enact sanctions against Apartheid SA.

bgrizzley

didnt she cause the potato famine?

Born to Die

Simply put, yes she was a nasty piece of work.

ejmaztec

Morricone wrote: »

As per title was Maggie T as bad as what is made out.

Yeah she might have pissed off a few of the working class and the IRA and its followers but she did what she felt was best for Britain and she did lead Britain on a prosperous economic upturn with her policies.

As a whole I feel that the history books will reflect quite well on her tenure in the years to come. She did achieve a hell of a lot as she became one of the first women to become a national leader in the Western world. She did a lot for the advancement of women.

All in all I think she did her best for her country and surely in Ireland we can recognise and respect that attribute.

She's a man.

Logical Fallacy

Morricone wrote: »

All in all I think she did her best for her country and surely in Ireland we can recognise and respect that attribute.

lol.

Given the average age of users on this board you'd be hard pressed to find an example of an Irish politician or political figure who "did the best for her country".

Also Thatcher was a stone cold bitch.

I reckon she was a ****ing demon in the sack though. The cold ones always are.

mikemac1

Morricone wrote: »

she did lead Britain on a prosperous economic upturn with her policies.

Well they had the IMF in during the seventies so it's not much of an achievement to have an upturn
You can't go any lower


Denis Thatcher looked to be a bit of craic, I'd say he would have been a funny man to have a pint with

Dubit10

Cnut of a woman.

Mickey Dazzler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t4-zDem1Sk

Zaph

Morricone wrote: »

All in all I think she did her best for her country

I think you'll find the miners would disagree with you. And the steelworkers. And those who worked in what was left of the British motor industry. Not to mention those who were caught up in the riots in Brixton. Or Toxteth. She was probably the most divisive political leader Britain ever had, and possibly ever will have, and only managed to stay in power as long as she did because some Argentinians decided to set up camp on a rock in the South Atlantic.

Nodin

Zaph wrote: »

I think you'll find the miners would disagree with you. And the steelworkers. And those who worked in what was left of the British motor industry. Not to mention those who were caught up in the riots in Brixton. Or Toxteth. She was probably the most divisive political leader Britain ever had, and possibly ever will have, and only managed to stay in power as long as she did because some Argentinians decided to set up camp on a rock in the South Atlantic.

More to do with the most bizarre voting system in Western Europe.......

Richard Hillman

She stood up to terrorists and the blackmailing unions. The finest leader of my time. I'd kill for us to have a Thatcher.

admiralofthefleet

i hope she gets cancer of the gee, an animal in every sense of the word

falan

Fcuk her!!

Gee Bag

Morricone wrote: »

As per title was Maggie T as bad as what is made out.

Yeah she might have pissed off a few of the working class and the IRA and its followers but she did what she felt was best for Britain and she did lead Britain on a prosperous economic upturn with her policies.

As a whole I feel that the history books will reflect quite well on her tenure in the years to come. She did achieve a hell of a lot as she became one of the first women to become a national leader in the Western world. She did a lot for the advancement of women.

All in all I think she did her best for her country and surely in Ireland we can recognise and respect that attribute.

Don't want to sound condescending, but you sound like your too young to remember when that horrible c*nt was in power. You can only learn so much from a hisstory book.

Logical Fallacy

Zaph wrote: »

I think you'll find the miners would disagree with you. And the steelworkers. And those who worked in what was left of the British motor industry. Not to mention those who were caught up in the riots in Brixton. Or Toxteth. She was probably the most divisive political leader Britain ever had, and possibly ever will have, and only managed to stay in power as long as she did because some Argentinians decided to set up camp on a rock in the South Atlantic.

Don't forget the populations of entire cities that were demonized by her and her cabinet in the wake of sporting event disasters in an effort to remove blame from police and rich folk.

Nodin

Richard Hillman wrote: »

She stood up to terrorists and the blackmailing unions. The finest leader of my time. I'd kill for us to have a Thatcher.

Yeah......all we fucking need. That and a Tsunami.

Nodin

Morricone wrote: »

......... She did achieve a hell of a lot as she became one of the first women to become a national leader in the Western world. She did a lot for the advancement of women.

.....

Yep. I'm sure the women pinochet was having raped with rodent's appreciated her efforts no ends.

ejmaztec

falan wrote: »

Fcuk her!!

Even her husband drew the line after one go. Fortunately for him, Maggie had twins so he never needed another bash at it.

Gee Bag

Richard Hillman wrote: »

She stood up to terrorists and the blackmailing unions. The finest leader of my time. I'd kill for us to have a Thatcher.

Yes like that nasty terrorist Nelson Mandela! (Thats what she called him)

Biggins

She was one utter bitch - I rarely say that about anyone or like to!

token101

Richard Hillman wrote: »

She stood up to terrorists and the blackmailing unions. The finest leader of my time. I'd kill for us to have a Thatcher.

Yeah, that's exactly how it happened. Don't you have foxes to hunt there, Lord Toff?

jblack

Her biggest sin was paving the way for new Labour.

Fire up the quattro.

danslevent

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i hope she gets cancer of the gee, an animal in every sense of the word

She actually has dementia now...Saw her daughter on the Late Late a while back.

St.Spodo

I can't stand the sort of post-colonial reappraisals of people like Thatcher. You're barking up the wrong tree; she was horrible.

ejmaztec

Her policy of making it easier for foreign companies to buy up British ones is probably the reason for Kraft getting its greasy hands on Cadbury and turning their chocolate to sh1t, not to mention making a load of people redundant.

Guy:Incognito

Gee Bag wrote: »

Don't want to sound condescending, but you sound like your too young to remember when that horrible c*nt was in power. You can only learn so much from a hisstory book.

I'd say the chances are thats pretty true of most of the posters who jump in to these thread sto give out about her.

Nodin

ejmaztec wrote: »

Her policy of making it easier for foreign companies to buy up British ones is probably the reason for Kraft getting its greasy hands on Cadbury and turning their chocolate to sh1t, not to mention making a load of people redundant.

To be honest, once you eat the belgian style stuff, its going to taste like shite anyway.

Biggins

http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/
(Unitedpeople Ireland and 78,718 others like this.)

'Nuff said!

TeddyTedson

Awfully cold woman. Very stubborn and pigheaded and massively ignorant also.
Alan Partridge referred to her as a robot. :eek:

ChunkyLover_53

Things got that bad on her watch during the Miners Strike that a lot of Unions in Ireland sent care packages to the miners families in the UK

ejmaztec

Nodin wrote: »

To be honest, once you eat the belgian style stuff, its going to taste like shite anyway.

You have to give the Belgians credit for something.:(

mikemac1

Did she ever visit Ireland officially?

I've been googling, can find nothing

Something about Sunningdale but that's in England
Something else about Albert Reynolds but that was also England

Just interested to know, I'd be suprised if she didn't at some stage

Guy:Incognito

Biggins wrote: »

http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/
(Unitedpeople Ireland and 78,718 others like this.)

'Nuff said!

78,000 like it. So the rest of the 65,000,000 dont?


You could probably get 78,000 likes on a website for killing bunnies.

TossL1916

This trolling phenomenon is getting out of hand

PeteEd

OP the search function is on the top right of your screen

Here we go againnnnnnnnnnnn

DublinWriter

Morricone wrote: »

Yeah she might have pissed off a few of the working class and the IRA and its followers but she did what she felt was best for Britain and she did lead Britain on a prosperous economic upturn with her policies.

Historical revisionism. Unemployment under Thatcher was epic.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

Richard Hillman wrote: »

She stood up to terrorists and the blackmailing unions. The finest leader of my time. I'd kill for us to have a Thatcher.

+1

I thought with all the anti-dole, anti public sector and anti-IRA posts on AH that she'd be popular here

Biggins

...Thatcher also went to war in the Malvinas pursuing Britain’s age-old colonial interests, opposed sanctions against apartheid South Africa, and supported the Khmer Rouge and the Chilean dictator Pinochet.

http://irishecho.com/?p=69392

A lovely person!

(Hint: being sarcastic here!)

Biggins

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

You could probably get 78,000 likes on a website for killing bunnies.

psicic

ejmaztec wrote: »

...the reason for Kraft getting its greasy hands on Cadbury and turning their chocolate to sh1t...

And for this alone she should be held in the greatest contempt by every single living Irish man and woman.

forfuxsake

Shocked to hear recently that if she could do it all again she said she wouldn't.

She would have not gone into politics and spent her time being a mother to her children.

Strange the things we regret when we get older.

A complete cnut imho.

Duckworth_Luas

I've never met a British person who admitted to liking her.

Nodin

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

I've never met a British person who admitted to liking her.

At the height of her popularity she got just over 42% of the vote, so thats not suprising.

Guy:Incognito

Biggins wrote: »

http://irishecho.com/?p=69392...Thatcher also went to war in the Malvinas pursuing Britain’s age-old colonial interests

A lovely person!

(Hint: being sarcastic here!)

The people in the Falklands consider themsleves British do they not?

Biggins

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

The people in the Falklands consider themsleves British do they not?

I don't know. I'm uneducated.

Edit: Ok, I'm being sarcastic again!

Of course but that didn't stop her from killing 300+ on the Belgrano that was heading away from a war zone.
Equivalent to shooting someone in the back!

Ghandee

She single handedly recruited more young men into the IRA in the early eighties than any recruitment campaign the Provos could ever have hoped to achieved.

As someone who was raised in a nationalist area in the north during the early eighties, I'd gladly piss on her grave when she croaks it.

Hell will not be full until she's in it imo!

Guy:Incognito

Biggins wrote: »

I don't know. I'm uneducated.

Edit: Ok, I'm being sarcastic again!

Of course but that didn't stop her from killing 300+ on the Belgrano that was heading away from a war zone.
Equivalent to shooting someone in the back!

Maggie was the sub commander? Well I never.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8965405/Belgrano-was-heading-to-the-Falklands-secret-papers-reveal.html

Telegraph wrote:

Top secret papers are set to prove that the warship Belgrano was heading into the Falkland's exclusion zone when it was sunk, and not heading back to port as the Argentinians claimed.

......has disclosed for the first time that he was asked to carry out a trawl of all the intelligence on the sinking at the direct request of Margaret Thatcher a few months after the end of the war.

Biggins

Ghandee wrote: »

She single handedly recruited more young men into the IRA in the early eighties than any recruitment campaign the Provos could ever have hoped to achieved.

As someone who was raised in a nationalist area in the north during the early eighties, I'd gladly piss on her grave when she croaks it.

Hell will not be full until she's in it imo!

Amen.

I lived in England part of that time, part of when the hunger strikes were going on and when the miners strikes was going on up around Lancaster where I was also based.
It was no fun I can tell you.
She was (and still is in many communities there alone) hated with an utter passion.
The day she dies, parties will be held up there (and I suspect other places too in England).

flyswatter

She supported Paul Pot as well. In fairness he was great on Britains got Talent.