Margaret Thatcher has died

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Conquistador

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History, which her rule now is, will either be covered in school, or through personal learning because you are interested in it, I didn't cover that part of history in school, and I'm not interested in it, so why would I go out of my way to read about it?
 
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derriesigeMexikaner

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They needed to be dealt with, but she could have done it in a way that didn't devastate communities and leave families in abject poverty. In a way, the ruthlessness that served her so well in the Falklands crisis made her ill suited for domestic politics.

No it doesn't, it reflects how useless Labour were in the 80's. Labour spent more time fighting amongst themselves than they did fighting the Tories.

She doesn't have detractors - she has loathers. The best thing about Thatcher - she made the Tories unelectable for nearly 15 years.
 
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dellman220008

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you were not there, I was. like I said in the age of information thats not good enough, anyone who can read can find out what the mood of thatchers Briton was and the continued effects her economic policy's have to this day. Three terms of stuff that appealed to the south of England, the result of not one post war election would have changed if all the Scottish votes were not counted, she had no mandate to destroy and privatise our Industry and take away our labour rights for three terms but she did, that happened. When you were THERE weren't you a plod ? I imagine that makes her a bit more of a sympathetic figure than say if you were a miner or a ship builder.
 
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Chiy9u

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holyhead is right a good leader know's when to bend, she was an iron lady in every sense of the word, hard but also brittle
 
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4113n

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also as far as history goes, each new year has a little insight into the workings of government when documents are released under the 30 year rule, we've still got the miners strike to come
 
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honey_um_home

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because you don't understand the issue, here is a simple analogy, would you nt understand people having a positive attitude towards Joseph Stalin dying
 
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CenturyBaller#32

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Stalin references too would go over my head, and no, I don't think you should ever be positive about death, especially when it's 20 odd years after the events took place, even if you thought she was some evil mastermind her death now doesn't change the past, so how is it a good thing?
 
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RDF

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a humourless loyalist itchy to jump at the first chance to show righteous indignation ? never seen one of those before
 
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NoelJWK

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No, that's not what he did. He answered the point 'understand the positive attitude towards someone dying' with an extreme example.
 
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KnowledgeisPowerttttt

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At first I thought that, however given his first post and subsequential ones, it seems he really seen her policies as tyrannical. As if someone who lived through Stalin and Thatcher went through equal suffering.

Raz
 
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