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"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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I take it you won't be queueing up to go and see "Maggie : The Musical" then?Originally posted by Provost Harrison
...although for that, I should be looking for the title 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead'
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How do you know? You weren't even bornOriginally posted by C0ckney
margaret thatcher saved this country
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Oh I don't know, if it takes the piss sufficiently I might doOriginally posted by Nanimo
I take it you won't be queueing up to go and see "Maggie : The Musical" then?
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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well that's not really true, but in any case she really pissed off people like you, so she must have done something right."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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I love the nature of your well constructed arguments. Are we going to go for the old 'ignoramus' routine again too?Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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To my mind, its the sinking of the Belgrano.Originally posted by Patroklos
What is the Falklands War controversy? I can't imagine anyone can blame the UK's retarded policy of abandoning conventional carriers on her.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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Yeah, the b*tch stole my milk too!Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Were you breast fed as a child?One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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Is it not normal to sink enemy ships during war?
Ah, the 235 mile thing.
Well, Just because I say I will definetly sink enemy ships that enter an exclusion zone, doesn't mean I can't maybe sink them anywhere else."The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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GOTCHA!Originally posted by Dauphin
To my mind, its the sinking of the Belgrano.
provost what happened last time eh, with you and laz, then again i guess that wasn't really a fair fight...
anyway, labour spent 18 years in opposition and tony blair had to take on many thatcherite ideas just to get elected in 1997, and has carried a lot of them through to the present day, says a lot about her legacy."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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IIRC, you got toasted...Originally posted by C0ckney
GOTCHA!
provost what happened last time eh, with you and laz, then again i guess that wasn't really a fair fight...
Gotcha? Damn, compared to Gulf War II, the Falklands pale in significance. My issues with Thatcher - the destruction of any kind of ability for the working class to fight back, which has been continued by Blair...and then there's the poll tax...sheesh.
And Blair emulating Thatcher? Of course he has! But I challenge you to dig up anything where I have supported Blair...Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Britain did need reforms after the socialist (old Labor) leadership of the 1970's however she did a piss poor job of doing it. The Socialists had nationalized most of the heavy industry and Thatcher just dumped 90% of them off to die instead of taking the slightly more expensive but better over the longer turn approach of a phased privitization. She also starved most of the remaining nationalized companies insuring that virtually all of them went bankrupt. She is the reason Britain went from the most industrialized state in western Europe to the least industrialized state (judged by domestic industrial output).Originally posted by Saras
To be fair, she was a b*tch to the working class in the short term, plus had some dubious policies on personal freedoms, there's also controversy on the need to go to war with Argies over Falklands.
However, on a net basis, I can's see why some Brits complain. Britain would be a basketcase if not for her.
Sadly this could have been avoided if a longer term approach had been adopted. She should have slowly weened them off of government subsidies allowing the companies to adapt to the new environment instead of going cold turkey and forcing nearly all of them into Bankruptcy.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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