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Maggie Thatcher dead - Mega merge thread

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    #452
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Nodin wrote: »
    No, I was referring to you and your "innocent soldiers".

    So what exactly do soldiers in Gib have to do with the IRA getting NI back?

    Or the killing of children in Warrington? Or pub bombings of civilians in Birmingham and Guildford?


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    #453
    celtictiger32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭celtictiger32


    long overdue- good riddance


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    #454
    Anynama141
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Anynama141


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Technically you shouldn't be killing unarmed people, combatants or not.
    They were not in uniform. Technically they could be shot as spies. I hope that they were going to check whether all those that they were going to blow up were armed combatants. And adults.

    War is hell.


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    #455
    nbar12
    Registered Users Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭nbar12


    All I know about Maggie is that I wasn't allowed to mention her name while I was up in Belfast.

    I drunkenly said she was a legend and I deservedly got a lovely black eye


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    #456
    Dyr
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Her politics might not have been to my liking but i did wonder what the likes of Thatcher would make of the likes to the criminal and dissident republican gangs who seem to be now ruling cities in Ireland and what measures she would take to weed them out because in fairness id say she would come down on them like an absolute ton of bricks.

    You don't live in a city, do you?


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    #457
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    summerskin wrote: »
    So what exactly do soldiers in Gib have to do with the IRA getting NI back?
    .....

    O, I'm sorry. I didn't realise those soldiers weren't in the British army.


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    #458
    jimjamcos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭jimjamcos


    Funeral arrangements.... :D



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    #459
    Anynama141
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Anynama141


    Nodin wrote: »
    The fact that something had to be done and that certain industries had to be dealt with is beyond dispute. However there were more solutions possible than Thatchers.
    Such as...


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    #460
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Anynama141 wrote: »
    They were not in uniform. Technically they could be shot as spies.
    Pretty sure that's not true.
    War is hell.
    Are you now condoning the bombings?


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    #461
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Anynama141 wrote: »
    Such as...

    Phased closure and retraining like they did in France.


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    #462
    P.Walnuts
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    Frankie Boyle on fire on twitter


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    #463
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    P.Walnuts wrote: »
    Frankie Boyle on fire on twitter

    shame about the "on twitter" part


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    #464
    Anynama141
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Anynama141


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Pretty sure that's not true.
    I'm pretty sure it is. Check out the Geneva and Hague Conventions.
    Seachmall wrote: »
    Are you now condoning the bombings?
    Hey, I'm opposed to all war. But the Shinners/IRA were in favour of the war, so why don't they condone the shootings of the spies? :confused:

    You can't say that no-warning bombs are ok because it's war and then say that shootings of spies are wrong at the same time, can you?


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    #465
    handlemaster
    Registered Users Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    Nodin wrote: »
    Why? Wouldn't be more humane to beg the Americans to nuke us?

    i dont see any point here.


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    #466
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    P.Walnuts wrote: »
    Frankie Boyle on fire on twitter

    "Finally I get to wear my black suit and tap shoes together"


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    #467
    Three Seasons
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Three Seasons


    I don't know too much about Thatcher but after reading about her on wiki she seems like a smart woman who implemented a lot of sound economic policies.

    What are people's major gripe with her?

    Excuse my ignorance as I only just read about her.


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    #468
    .jacksparrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭.jacksparrow.


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Her politics might not have been to my liking but i did wonder what the likes of Thatcher would make of the likes to the criminal and dissident republican gangs who seem to be now ruling cities in Ireland and what measures she would take to weed them out because in fairness id say she would come down on them like an absolute ton of bricks.

    Though in that case many might argue that the cure would be worse then the disease and that she abused her power during her tenure in Downing Street.

    I think its the case that drugs gangs have a hold on cities across the country,striking fear into people with murders,whilst ruining communities with their poison.

    All the while with little or no repercussions.


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    #469
    Anynama141
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Anynama141


    Nodin wrote: »
    Phased closure and retraining like they did in France.
    And you think the unions would have gone along with that? They were a bit militant you know.


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    #470
    mccarthy37
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭mccarthy37


    The Iron Lady is dead.
    Rust in peace


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    #471
    Latchy
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    wonderfullife wrote: »

    again, if the above were fact and not myth, she got re-elected to PM twice and served 3 terms. If a large % of the country hated her, that would not have happened (regardless of weak opposition parties).
    Thatcher loved the world stage but the large % of people of the north west and north east of England who saw their factory's and industry close and saw their livelihoods disappear overnight won't weep for her .


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    #472
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Three Seasons wrote: »
    I don't know too much about Thatcher but after reading about her on wiki she seems like a smart woman who implemented a lot of sound economic policies.

    What are people's major gripe with her?

    Excuse my ignorance as I only just read about her.

    You're taking the piss. Propping up Apartheid, the anti-gay laws, taking sanctions off pinochet, cheer leader for Reagan


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    #473
    ACE10
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    Margaret thatcher will not be cremated she is not for burning.


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    #474
    Anynama141
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Anynama141


    .jacksparrow. wrote: »
    I think its the case that drugs gangs have a hold on cities across the country,striking fear into people with murders,whilst ruining communities with their poison.

    All the while with little or no repercussions.
    To be fair, the Real IRA do try to discourage them with economic incentives, taxing their income.


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    #475
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Anynama141 wrote: »
    And you think the unions would have gone along with that? They were a bit militant you know.

    If its possible to ram through a shutdown with little thought to the medium and long term, why isn't it possible to ram through a phased closure that would at least have the support of some or most of the workforce?


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    #476
    P.Walnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 4,759 ✭✭✭P.Walnuts


    summerskin wrote: »
    shame about the "on twitter" part

    Commiserations for having no sense of humour.


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    #477
    .jacksparrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭.jacksparrow.


    Anynama141 wrote: »
    To be fair, the Real IRA do try to discourage them with economic incentives, taxing their income.


    I'm not talkin about the rira,I'm talkin about drug gangs.


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    #478
    nice_very
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    she can go and fcuking rot, b1tch.


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    #479
    Leftist
    Registered Users Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭Leftist


    most of the people who think this is good news have no idea why. She was less right wing than most western governments are today.

    The Iron Angel.


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    #480
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Wet myself reading this

    Have to say, it really is a terrible shame that Margaret Thatcher died in her home this morning.

    Instead of in a Brighton Hotel 30 years ago.


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    #481
    Anynama141
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Anynama141


    Nodin wrote: »
    If its possible to ram through a shutdown with little thought to the medium and long term, why isn't it possible to ram through a phased closure that would at least have the support of some or most of the workforce?
    Presumably if they thought it was possible, they would have tried it. Unless you think she just did evil for the sake of it, I suppose. I suspect both of us would have to do rather a lot of reading to argue this on any sort of firm foundation.


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