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Margaret Thatcher Dies.

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Fri, Apr 12 2013 6:37 AM (51 replies)
  • Calum160
    48 Posts
    Tue, Apr 9 2013 5:29 AM

    +3  

    Well said   "Bluescouse", I agree with every comment you put on your post

  • craigswan
    31,573 Posts
    Tue, Apr 9 2013 5:45 AM

    Maggie,s best quotes ,

    ) Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

    2) If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

    3) I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

    4) To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

    5) It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

    6) To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

    7) I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

    8) To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

    9) I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

    10) There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

    11) If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

    12) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

    13) We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.

    14) You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister’s child.

    15) “I don’t mind how much my ministers talk, as long as they do what i say .

     

  • GARRYCARTER
    1,533 Posts
    Tue, Apr 9 2013 7:15 AM

    Buggyyy:

    Sorry for not knowing, but who is Margaret Thatcher?

    Jon she was before BAGDAD & before you was in your DADS BAG mate :)

  • PaulTon
    10,731 Posts
    Tue, Apr 9 2013 8:35 AM

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    hyena64:

    PaulTon:
    R.I.P? There is no rest in hell.

    And there is no hell without God, who you don't appear to believe in...   I assume you mean it in the joking sense, as if it existed to you.  

    Indeed, I used a common archetype in a jokey manner to illustrate my utter disdain for the woman.

    Eternal damnation without redemption is a common theme in many a fairy story.

  • Tightrope
    1,072 Posts
    Tue, Apr 9 2013 8:44 AM

    This movie indicates that Thatcher did not really stand strong for her own beliefs, rather for someone elses. That, I guess, can change the way you look at her.

    As always, it is impossible to tell exactly what is true and what is clever editing in documentaries, but the Shock Doctrine is worth seeing with an open mind.

    [View:http://vimeo.com/26718047#:550:0]

  • jld51
    406 Posts
    Tue, Apr 9 2013 9:43 AM

    Interesting to see that most of people slagging and berating Margaret Thatcher, would have been 3 when she came to power

  • Tightrope
    1,072 Posts
    Tue, Apr 9 2013 10:03 AM

    jld51:
    Interesting to see that most of people slagging and berating Margaret Thatcher, would have been 3 when she came to power

    Yes, like with Hitler

  • bluescouse
    1,185 Posts
    Tue, Apr 9 2013 10:07 AM

    jld51:

    Interesting to see that most of people slagging and berating Margaret Thatcher, would have been 3 when she came to power

    16 and about to enter the rapidly disintegrating job market in Liverpool. Took me about 10 years to get a decent, full-time job, and had to move away from the area to find one.

    Sean

     

  • courteneyfish
    15,796 Posts
    Tue, Apr 9 2013 10:46 AM

    I've read a lot about Mrs Thatcher over the years and I even did a project on here at school. It was a tough time and big decisions had to be made and where most of the politicians were just doing their best to avoid those decisions, Margaret Thatcher was willing to stand up for what she believed. In times like those it is sometimes better to make the wrong decision than to be seen to make no decision at all.

  • tamjag
    206 Posts
    Tue, Apr 9 2013 11:30 AM

    jld51:

    Interesting to see that most of people slagging and berating Margaret Thatcher, would have been 3 when she came to power

    wrong just like thatcher       18 for your info

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