Margaret Thatcher is dead.

[Sava]

spam.

he should get a medal

[Sava]

papa bush

That's not me. Perhaps our souls all get to experience every life in some "the universe is one living entity" Buddha bull****... but AFAIK, I'm not him.

[DaShi]

Stop stalking me!

[Berzerker]

didnt you say his goal was removing saddam?

[Berzerker]

Bush wanted Saddam to take Kuwait. Saddam became too big for his britches. They wanted him gone. Administration officials gave assurances to Iraq that there wouldn't be such a large international response... knowing there would be.

there ya go

[Sava]

there ya go

I say a lot of things.

[Sava]

Stop stalking me!

NOT UNTIL YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME

[Berzerker]

drunk bastard

[DaShi]

NOT UNTIL YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME

Man, you know it!

[Sava]

[N35t0r]

HELLO? It's a parody website, like the Onion.

So? It can't be funny or remind me of that?

[Parody Man]

Dinner you don't have to say it's a parody three times. I should report you for spam.

Did someone say 'parody' three times?

[N35t0r]

Come on, it's not that slow over here.

[dannubis]

Rust in peace.

[molly bloom]

I don't see how anyone can claim it's not an improvement.

I never thought I'd feel nostalgic about British Rail.

I was wrong.

The same with the privatized water, electricity and gas suppliers. Do you really think what we have now is an improvement ?

It's also worth pointing out that many of the things she's blamed for such as the move away from manufacturing leading to the impoverishment of the working class north were going to happen anyway.

Uh huh. And the recession she presided over had no effect on that whatsoever.

The Tory anti-gay stuff of the time was awful

It was bigoted and pandering to the supine rightwing press in a bid for votes.

I have no idea why you'd refer to the unions as a minority however, have you forgotten Heaths 'Who governs Britain?'.

No, I haven't- and it was the electorate who decided he didn't.

It certainly made the transition to a service based economy a lot more tolerable than it could have been.

Which is an emollient way of saying her policies and those of her party were responsible for the worst unemployment figures since the Great Depression- somewhat ironic for those of us who can recall the 'Labour Isn't Working' Saatchi ads:



under Labour it was 1 million (roughly). Under Thatcher, government figures were 3 million plus. Then there was the rampant inflation, and remember V.A.T. increasing from 8% to 15% - in the first term ? National Insurance contributions went up too- still, as long as you present yourself publicly as the party of low direct taxation, that's all that counts.