Margaret Thatcher has died

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HighNimbus

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A godwin doesn't mean an argument is lost, that's a very common misinterpretation. Though Joe was a lot worse than Thatcher, at least she invented Mr Whippy Ice cream.
 
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Aldane

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No I am not - I addressed it above, but you cannot use celebration of the death of someone like Stalin to explain how you can take joy in the death of someone like Thatcher. It just does not work as an analogy - which is precisely how he described it




In fairness I was not clear that the "godwin" reference was not in relation to the "was she good/bad" as a leader but more addressed to how one can celebrate the death of another with no real basis for such a celebration. If she was still in power? maybe
 
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saysayh

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Fair enough -I am not going to celebrate the death of someoen I see as a twisted megalomaniac but either am I going to greive her, she had a better innings than many whose lives she destroyed.
 
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VolleyBall#1OnMyTeame

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I think I read somewhere that upto a quarter of Americans believe President Obama to be the Antichrist. So surely they would celebrate his death as much as he celebrated the death of Osama Bin Laden (assuming he is dead).

Some leaders are just more popular than others, doesn't mean they haven't done bad things. Compare Mugabe to Mandela
 
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kisty

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I'd argue that the only people who should grieve for her death are her friends and family. Nobody should be celebrating her death.

Everyone else should be indifferent to it =p
 
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wobbles0

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Nah. If your family were directly effected by policies she implemented then a "good riddance" is fair enough.
Don't go micturating on her grave or anything but I can see why the family of say a striking miner that went up against the police in the 80's would be glad to see her go.
 
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lililrose

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Most people need an enemy. Others just jump on the bandwagon.

What's worse yet some will celebrate the death of Maggie Thatcher more so than the deaths of Saddam Hussein or Bin Laden. They would even think it justified.
 
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aajg15

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I grew up in a mining village that was completely stripped of its livelihood by Thatcher but I find it hard to celebrate her death so much when her market driven ideology is still the most influential force in modern politics. Thatcher may be dead but Thatcherism is still selling off our schools and hospitals.

It's not a symbolic end of an era. It's like celebrating the death of one carrier when the plague is still spreading.
 
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marieg

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This bit of news has really caught me on the hop. I really ought to go out and celebrate, perhaps drive around the streets tooting my horn with joy before heading off for a few pints. That's how I always imagined I'd celebrate the end of the Witch.

But I've had a hard day's work and I just feel like curling up on the sofa and relaxing. Why couldn't the evil cow have had the decency to snuff it on a weekend?
 
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kath1

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It will be a party in SCOTLAND tonight and yes that is a horrible thing to say but Scotland is NOT ENGLAND and she hated SCOTLAND. We are two COMPLETELY different countries that where treated very different by that thing..
 
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SugarKitten

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I'm sure there will be upper-class Scots who will be mourning her, but for the majority she was just bad news.

But it's the same in England and Wales. She looked after the toffs and the rich, but the vast majority of us got well and truly shafted by the evil witch and her cronies.
 
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