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Mixed feelings For her really. I am old enough to remember what a complete mess the country was in before she came to power. I remember thinking that things were wrong and needed to change. When she came to power her policies had a direct influence on me and not in a good way so I really despised her. But as time has moved on, as I have, I realise that what she did she believed in completely and she thought she was doing the right thing for the country. I am lucky enough to benefit long term from what she did while she was in power but at the time you do not see the bigger picture. Some people lost their mother today, lets remember that.
 
Candy Man said:
My old man would probably be saying a lot worse than what Craig just did. I'm pretty sure he'd be starting a "Thatcher is dead" conga around the whole Country. Some people were affected by Thatcher badly and are driven by past torment to say certain things though it still doesn't justify what does get said.
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A lot of people who experienced those years won't forgive her. I think a lot of the rose tinted stuff comes from those who were too young (or not born) to realise how she split this country.
 
barc-hull-ona said:
Mixed feelings For her really. I am old enough to remember what a complete mess the country was in before she came to power. I remember thinking that things were wrong and needed to change. When she came to power her policies had a direct influence on me and not in a good way so I really despised her. But as time has moved on, as I have, I realise that what she did she believed in completely and she thought she was doing the right thing for the country. I am lucky enough to benefit long term from what she did while she was in power but at the time you do not see the bigger picture. Some people lost their mother today, lets remember that.
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Nah, I'd rather be one of the cool kids, let's just call her a ****ing bitch, piss on her grave and throw a street party!
 
barc-hull-ona said:
Mixed feelings For her really. I am old enough to remember what a complete mess the country was in before she came to power. I remember thinking that things were wrong and needed to change. When she came to power her policies had a direct influence on me and not in a good way so I really despised her. But as time has moved on, as I have, I realise that what she did she believed in completely and she thought she was doing the right thing for the country. I am lucky enough to benefit long term from what she did while she was in power but at the time you do not see the bigger picture. Some people lost their mother today, lets remember that.
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Who? This oaf?
 
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Will this go to number one
 
Craig in Nottingham said:
A lot of people who experienced those years won't forgive her. I think a lot of the rose tinted stuff comes from those who were too young (or not born) to realise how she split this country.
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Agreed. There's gonna be a complete contrast in reaction to this as we're seeing on here. I am too young to have really known the true effects of Thatcher and what life was like though a got a brief stint as a very young child in the 80's but too young really to understand. All I have to go from is stories from my family at what happened to us.

I won't pass judgement on anybodies responses, such as your earlier comment, as I know my family would say the same thing if they had the chance. I know how greatly some people were effected.
 
I'd be more sympathetic to the 'people who lost their mother' sob story if they didn't happen to be Carol Thatcher and the dodgy businessman guy whose name I can't or don't want to remember.
 
I love how she called Nelson Mandela a 'terrorist' - a man she wasn't fit to wash the feet of.

...and all while hubby Denis, millionaire, was a director of Quinton Hazell. QH - in South Africa - paid its black workers minimal wages.....
 
StanIsTheMan said:
I love how she called Nelson Mandela a 'terrorist' - a man she wasn't fit to wash the feet of.

...and all while hubby Denis, millionaire, was a director of Quinton Hazell. QH - in South Africa - paid its black workers minimal wages.....
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She didn't actually call Mandella a terrorist, she called the ANC a terrorist organisation.

She was still wrong, but just in the name of accuracy...
 
StanIsTheMan said:
I love how she called Nelson Mandela a 'terrorist' - a man she wasn't fit to wash the feet of.

...and all while hubby Denis, millionaire, was a director of Quinton Hazell. QH - in South Africa - paid its black workers minimal wages.....
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And at the same time she adored General Pinochet who was a notorious torturer of his own people. Says it all really.
 
originallambrettaman said:
She didn't actually call Mandella a terrorist, she called the ANC a terrorist organisation.

She was still wrong, but just in the name of accuracy...
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Thatcher never budged from the principle that she would never negotiate with a terrorist.

But as the saying goes - One mans' terrorist is another man's freedom fighter......

That's why she never started a dialogue with Sinn Fein. However, after she left office John Major started the process that lead to
the 1998 Good Friday agreement, which Blair signed. She was a stubborn old axe and peace in NI was delayed because of this, mind you
the IRA did try and murder her in Brighton 1984 so maybe she had a valid reason !
 
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