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Maggie Thatcher dead - Mega merge thread

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    #152
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    Theres worse than her out there now. In her defence she had guts. All we're seeing noware cowards and fvcking queers running Europe and Ireland into the ground.

    She had balls, which is more than I can say for some.

    mod: banned.


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    #153
    GRMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭GRMA


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    Parties tonight in the vast majority of Northern English towns and why do I know there'll be the same on the Falls!!!

    Can't say I'm sorry to see the end of her.
    Some session in the felons club


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    #154
    gallag
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭gallag


    She done what was right, not what was popular, stood up to the unions that were trying to cripple the country and lets face it, the reason most irish hate her is because of the hunger strikers, she never gave into them and that was right, they killed both British and Irish citizens and could not be allowed to dictate the terms of their imprisonment.


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    #155
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Cody Pomeray wrote: »
    Do you "lol" at negative sentiments expressed towards other world leaders, under whom the poor suffered, or who expounded philosophies that onlookers found repulsive?

    Since when does someone have to have lived under someone's authority to express an opinion?

    I'm trying to avoid a Godwin's law here..

    I dont lol at opinions, only that comments like the witch is dead are just juvenile band wagon jumping statements.

    The typical after hours poster is very quick to jump on the trade unions when they hold the country to ransom, yet here we have the death of a woman who took on the trade unions (who were ten times more militant than in Ireland today) and brought them back in to the realms of reasonableness.

    I remember the hardship her policies brought on people and her stance over issues like south Africa etc and will never look on her with fondness, but I also remember having a stock of candles for when the power stations ran out of coal.

    She did a lot of very difficult things at a time when they needed to be done. That will always be her legacy.


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    #156
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Quoting herself, "Rejoice Rejoice".


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    #157
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    All we're seeing noware cowards and fvcking queers running Europe and Ireland into the ground.

    That is so offensive!

    What have you got against cowards?!


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    #158
    Sunnyisland
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    Rest in Peace.


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    #159
    Anynama141
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Anynama141


    kfallon wrote: »
    So by that logic Hitler, Stalin and the likes are all ok unless you were around during their reigns? :confused:
    I think the point is that the people crowing here who weren't around at the time have no idea of the context that she was operating in.

    Britain was going down the toilet (as I said, they needed an IMF bailout in 1976) and the unions were ruining the country. She sorted that out and to whatever extent Britain prospers now, it is largely down to her reforms.

    As I said, I don't agree with a lot of what she did, but this idea that she was a cartoon villain is just indicative that most people here have no idea what they are commenting on, and are just insulting a dead old lady.


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    #160
    irish bloke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭irish bloke


    WOW!!! You can really feel the love for Maggie here


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    #161
    Frankie Lee
    Registered Users Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Frankie Lee


    Don't forget her support of the Khmer Rouge
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/jan/09/cambodia

    The woman was pure evil.


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    #162
    kfallon
    Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    GRMA wrote: »
    Some session in the felons club

    And The Rock bar!


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    #163
    Anynama141
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Anynama141


    GRMA wrote: »
    Some session in the felons club
    The Felon's club - is that where the Republican drug gangs hang out? How appropriate.


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    #164
    Amalgam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    Rest in Peace.

    A Godsend to the left. Making the decisions they didn't have the balls to admit needed doing. UK would have been a total basket case, economically, with repercussions for us, as a result.

    Off topic. Mid 1980s. I was late for school due to DART problems, I had to take the 7 into Dublin. As the bus slowed down and passed Greene's Bookshop, there was Douglas Hurd, walking along, minding his own business. Spitting Image come to life!


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    #165
    GRMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭GRMA


    gallag wrote: »
    She done what was right, not what was popular, stood up to the unions that were trying to cripple the country and lets face it, the reason most irish hate her is because of the hunger strikers, she never gave into them and that was right, they killed both British and Irish citizens and could not be allowed to dictate the terms of their imprisonment.

    What was right? Are you serious?

    Pinochet.

    As for the IRA, you do know that hundreds of prisoners were on political status while other prisoners were in the h-blocks? Her actions over the hunger strikes were stupid, they got what they wanted in the end (did you miss that bit, where she gave in?) and countless new recruits, supporters, money and weapons.


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    #166
    true
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭true


    FreeTime wrote: »
    I wonder, had it not been for Margaret Thatcher, how long the English would have continued to subsidize the mining industry?
    touts wrote: »
    And when it comes to dealing with Europe it's a pity we didn't heed her warnings.

    RIP.
    She was proved right on so many things. Russia, Standing up to the IRA. Standing up to the Argentinian government who were responsible for thousands of "disappeared". A remarkable woman. Wish we had politicians of her calibre and courage. She has guts and a million times more courage than our gutless dossers.


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    #167
    Hannibal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭Hannibal


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    I wonder if we'll have a minutes applause in the manchester derby tonight.
    no chance of that in a city like Manchester or Liverpool, there would be as much hatred there as you would find in Belfast West


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    #168
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users Posts: 6,768 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    GRMA wrote: »
    Bit of a difference between someone being murdered and gunned down by drug dealers and people celebrating that deed and an elderly person dying naturally.

    She was a dirt bag and there are many people in graves all over the world because of that bitch and her dictator pals

    Its a shame she she didnt die years ago, too little too late, its a cruel world.

    Satan has a new lieutenant.

    But Alan Ryan has been there for a few weeks now??? Or has he just got promoted?


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    #169
    April O Neill
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    A strangely iconic figure. The strong comments about her show this.

    R.I.P.


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    #170
    Duiske
    Registered Users Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    Deleted User wrote: »
    She is up there with Tupac and Gerry Ryan now.

    I wouldn't be so confident that she actually went up.


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    #171
    sadie06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭sadie06


    henryporter wrote: »
    Looks like Elvis Costello gets his day in the graveyard...


    You beat me to it! What a great song.


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    #172
    Absolute Zero
    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Absolute Zero


    Celebrate now with a few pints tonight
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    #173
    jaykay74
    Registered Users Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    I thought she was good in Spitting Image in fairness to her.


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    #174
    Clandestine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine


    Oh well


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    #175
    ONeill2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭ONeill2013


    Funnily enough my uni lecturer (English with Irish descent) was saying that he hated her a few weeks ago.


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    #176
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    now we know where the allegiances of the AH mods lie.

    people say their happy Thatcher's dead, and say "Ding Dong the witch is dead". Mods do nothing.

    people say anything remotely bad about Brian Lenihan when he died, a man who bankrupted our entire country, bans are handed out left right and centre.


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    #177
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    gallag wrote: »
    She done what was right, not what was popular, stood up to the unions that were trying to cripple the country and lets face it, the reason most irish hate her is because of the hunger strikers, she never gave into them and that was right, they killed both British and Irish citizens and could not be allowed to dictate the terms of their imprisonment.


    amid all the hating/loving opinion posts on this thread, this one stands out to be the most hilarious and misguided - do you know ANYTHING about history at all?


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    #178
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    true wrote: »
    She was proved right on so many things. Russia, Standing up to the IRA. Standing up to the Argentinian government who were responsible for thousands of "disappeared". A remarkable woman. Wish we had politicians of her calibre and courage. She has guts and a million times more courage than our gutless dossers.

    Hmm.... Russia, well it was the cold war, we were all right about the USSR. Standing up to the IRA, I think you will find that talking to them was what happened later to end it, not standing up to them. Argentina? What about Chile and her best mate Pinochet? She wasnt standing up to Argentina about the disapeared it was for her own political power.

    Although I agree with you on her courage, at least she stood for something.


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    #179
    gallag
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭gallag


    Absolute Zero wrote: »
    Celebrate now with a few pints tonight

    How did she affect you to be moved like this? Serious question.


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    #180
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    It's not often I'm not in some way sad when a public figure dies. But today I'm not.


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    #181
    GRMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭GRMA


    knucklehead6 wrote: »
    But Alan Ryan has been there for a few weeks now??? Or has he just got promoted?
    On the scale of evil I doubt he ranks high enough - I as no fan of Alan Ryan is was the applauding of the (worse) scumbags that killed him that bothered me. WOuld have preferred he was jailed


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