BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher-13 Oct 1925

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 29 Apr 06 - 02:06 AM

If so, I hope she recovers to live a long life.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,Birdy
Date: 28 Apr 06 - 07:32 PM

So far, not a dickie.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,wordy
Date: 28 Apr 06 - 06:16 PM

Oh! Can it be true? Be still my heart.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,Purdy
Date: 28 Apr 06 - 05:50 PM

Anyone heard Mrs. Thatcher admitted to hospital today ? Daughter and son seen going in to London Hospital late afternoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,Gillian Brookebrough
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 09:03 AM

Cllr
These are facts which I feel need said. We can't hide from the truth and I hope our American friends here enjoy this side of her life.

We are all proud of our Britishness, but she came across an this Iron Lady in public, but in private she bullied staff, had a drink/drugs problem and craved un natural fornacation with young men.

Fact is fact.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Cllr
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 07:47 AM

I happen to admire thatcher but not in a completly uncritical way, there are arguments for and against. I have had some very interesting (and enjoyable) conversations with people who hold strong left wing views.

I only say with certainty
1) the vitriol with which some people are posting says more about them than it does about anyone else and
2)she has had an udeniable effect on british society.

those of you who wish too can carry on making inane comments. As I said earlier "whatever dude"

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,Gillian Brookebrough
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 04:39 AM

Teribus
I do beg your pardon, none of the facts that I contributed are claptrap or lacking in substantiation.

I actually could say a lot more. Besides the drink and drug fuelled outbursts, there was always fear and trepidation among her male staff as even in her later years she craved jockeying.

This is not wild accusations, Denis spoke on more than one occassion about her appetite for young men. It's will Documented.

If you haven't heard about it, you clearly don't move in the right circles.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 03:01 AM

I envy the old folks who rebuilt Britain in the 50's and 60's
and lived to see the positive results of their hard work and commitment..
but who were also fortunate enough to die
before Thatcher and her cut-throat crew sneaked up from behind
and asset stripped the bounty of their labour..

my nan wasn't so fortunate..
she grew older and angry and sick to death of what she saw Thatcher inflict on our town and family.

my old mum firmly believes my nan is waiting in the afterlife
to personaly take care of Thatcher
when her time is up...

and my mum is queuing up and spiritually tooling up to help out
when its also her time to go..

sometimes i can take comfort im my mums personal religious belief

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Teribus
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 02:26 AM

"Don't all you apologists attach any significance to the fact that you are in a vast minority here about Thatcher ?

eric"

No eric, should we? Reading most of the claptrap from Margaret Thatcher's detractors on this site, the only significant factor to come out of it is the complete and utter lack of substantiation, fact or arguement to support their wilder accusations.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 12:55 AM

Don't all you apologists attach any significance to the fact that you are in a vast minority here about Thatcher ?

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Cllr
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:08 PM

Whatever dude, if thats the best you can come up with I will go and share a glass of islay with Bunnahabhain, Cllr

PS Bunnahabhain: IVDFF was really good and i did get a t-shirt

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 09:00 AM

Get another round of drink in, Maggies glass is empty, get Bunnahabhain one when your at it.

Bunnahabhain she is looking staff if your interested.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 06:37 AM

She did what needed to be done.

Yes, she did it in a very uncomprimising manner that has lead to some problems, but the trade unions were a lovley group of sensible and moderate people, who would have comprimised in three seconds flat if she'd said please. Clearly the 1970's were an close approximation of paradise. Who needs electricity, or to work for more than 3 days a week?

If her detractors round here refuse ro recognise there were problems before her, then it is inevitable they will view her actions as evil. For the sane, it's not quite so clear cut.


PS, would the guests mind giving themselves some names when they pop by to say nasty things?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:49 AM

Well said eric, just about sums him up. Also I feel the other three line poster just suffers from delusions of grandeur.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 04:05 AM

Cllr, yeah, just another apologist who did well out of Thatchers greed is good ethic.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 01:50 PM

Dear Cllr
You must be a fellow drinker or drug user if your in her defence. We are so so sorry for you. Get another round in old boy !

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Cllr
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 11:09 AM

I think M.Thatcher was a fantastic politician and a great leader. Her achievements are numerous, as are her detracters. Any one who thinks that wishing her the evil that they do on this thread i feel sorry for and that the rationalisations for such is pitiful.

Best thing of all though is that her influence on british society can't be denied - whether you like it or not despite any name calling you resort to. 8-)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 09:20 AM

Oh dear, old bow tie seems to have went missing !

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,Nuclear fish
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 06:27 AM

Then lets get together and kill it.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 06:25 AM

Thatcher will never die, she is not human.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 04:55 AM

So she is drunk out, and beating drugs into her ! and f...ing and blinding at her staff, come on Gillian, give us more on the oul tart !

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,Tír Chonaill
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 07:20 PM

Closest thing England had to Adolph Hitler. Proves that dictators can be elected.

Hope she lives well into her 160's, Divis....

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,Gillian Brookebrough
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 03:52 PM

I must admit I actually did admire the lady. I myself saw her as our first lady, and the one who gave such strength to so many other women throughout the eighties. Sadly it's well known in circles that she has become a chronic alcoholic and depends on over the counter medication a lot. Her closest friends say her staff change monthly. So so sad to see such a fine lady from my native Finchley end her days in such a manner.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 11:00 AM

English first Woman prime minister.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 10:59 AM

well Ted is quite right she was England's first prim minters because the marjoirty of people of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales didn't vote for her or her party

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 12:29 PM

When I read the posts from members with a brain, they all seem to remember what this witch did to the country during her stay in number 10. Then you read the rants from the three line poster !

Read in the paper recently that she suffers constant frustration at her inability to communicate and converse. And suffers from depression due to her active mind and failing health, cries a lot.

Such wonderful news, lets hope she lives until she is 95.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 03:00 AM

A Week from now the mad old bat will be closer to her 81st B'day than her 80th.
Let's allow her to get some sleep until then.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 02:48 AM

Is that the Provisional response or the official?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 02:54 PM

This has to be the most nauseating thread on Mudcat, Ted go and annoy some other site.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 11:13 AM

Thanks for the English Grammar lesson there ESN. My written use of our glorious language is rather poor due to 50years of Comprehensive Education

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,ES&L
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 10:45 AM

Ted in blue,

Tut, tut!

"England" and "People" in the possessive take an apostrophe!
We are pleased to note, however, the correct use of the apostrophe in "it's"; that impersonal pronoun of course does not take an apostrophe in the possessive.

ES&L

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 09:30 AM

Travel ted, it broadens the mind.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 08:56 AM

A Musical!!!! Hardly a fitting tribute to Englands last decent Prime Minister. I would like to see this, but it's unlikely to ever play in Prescott's Peoples Republic of 'ull

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Cllr
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 06:10 AM

Thactcher the musical is well worth going to see
I saw it in Warwick day after it opened. Whatever your view on thatcher it does make you think and have a laugh at the same time.

Cllr

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 04:28 AM

I always value your erudite comments ted.


eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 10:00 AM

Sometimes one's tongue is firmly in one's cheek Eric.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 09:53 AM

Ted are you Cecil Parkinson in disguise ? or Keith Joseph maybe or Bernard Ingham or any other such traitor to your class.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 06:25 AM

Excellent programme on BBC4 last night, a reshowing of a 1974 edition of Panorama. Free collective bargaining, incomes policies, restraint of trade, Len Murray perma-glued to the steps of No10. You could almost hear Mrs Thatchers fine mind whirring away when she watched it at the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Gedpipes
Date: 29 Mar 06 - 02:55 AM

Lovely to see a bit of tolerance Boston Boy
Blue skies
G

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,Boston Boy
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 02:22 PM

Please Bert, don't feed the two line poster. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Bert
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 12:33 PM

I was working overseas and she had a referendum on the Common Market.

Because it was believed that a majority of Expatriots would vote against she withdrew the absentee voting privelege.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 06:17 AM

How did Mrs T take away your vote Bert?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Bert
Date: 27 Mar 06 - 05:16 PM

She took away my vote the tin knickered bitch.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST,Boston Boy
Date: 27 Mar 06 - 04:49 PM

Can we all please ignore this antique and the thread too !

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Mar 06 - 08:29 AM

I've not read it ted, just what was reported in the Yorkshire Post, don't think I'll bother either.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 27 Mar 06 - 07:40 AM

Francis Gilbert's book got a real rubbishing in ths sundays Times Eric, so I might give it a miss.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Shiplap Structure3
Date: 27 Mar 06 - 03:40 AM

Having watched the Pinochet play on the Bbc last night helped me remember why she occupies that special place in the spleen

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: ifor
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 07:05 AM

I recall Elvis Costello'e song for Thatcher with great affection "Tramp The Dirt Down".
One thing about her..she could never walk down any street in England Scotland or Wales without being harangued or heckled unlike say,Michael Foot who would be greeted with affection .
ifor

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: Hillheader
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 06:25 AM

I was once barred from a quiz for answering the question "How is BSE better known" with the word "Thatcherism". It was in London though

For a "Prime Minister of England" she sure raped Central Scotland big style. Tell the (ex) steel workers of Motherwell to wish her "Happy Birthday". Or the shipyard workers of the Clyde as she sent order to Devonport at (in the end) twice the price.

The only birthday of hers I will celebrate is her (very) last one.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Mrs Thatcher
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 05:27 AM

Burn the witch.
Kill the wrinkled old fascist slag.