My late old man was part of the Riots against Poll Tax. I wasn't really old enough to fully understand the full extent of Thatchers policies and actions but everyone in my family hated her and would currently be making a Celebration Conga.
A Woman that divided the Working Classes of this country should had been hung for treason a long time ago, i've impossed a news blackout in my house as i'm already sick of the media circus surrounding this event.
Sorry i got carried away with my rant that i forgot to say no i won't be attending. It does make me laugh that anyone who is Anti-Thatcher is automaticly branded a leftie tree-hugger,IRA supporter or Argie lover and not someone who hates injustice.
I wish that dopey bastard Mark and his ****in butt ugly sister would come on these boards and read the stuff on here, I hope the bastards are suffering. I hope she suffered in agony in her last hours, I would have loved her to last a lot longer in all honestly, in agony of course, with an ex miner sat at her bedside reminding the dementia riddled **** that her beloved Denis is still dead
Fair enough Ringo, I figured you would give it a miss If the following happens I honestly think it will be the worst 'silence' on record. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22078110
Isn't bates already dead? I thought he was one of those zombies from the walking dead living of the flesh of the living.
Tommy, with my family I revisited the Old Dart in the Thatcher years and I was never more depressed. People openly begging in the streets, camping in city parks because they had lost their homes, living in cardboard cartons in shop doorways, businesses closing down in their dozens every day. This was not the England that I had known, and all, mainly, thanks to one person. I can take a look at myself and be very content. Sorry to be so serious, mate, but thats how I am.
I 'jumped ship', as you put it, a long time before Mrs Thatcher came along, and probably before you, too!! I saw the writing on the wall and didn't want my kids caught up in that s**t. "Finger" (there isn't an icon for that)
Interesting thread lads, some of us Northerners forget that the working class in the south east suffered too. Though I spent a happy hour one trip to London in the company of a cabbie who had been a docker and hated her with a purple passion.
Chill Doha, don't have a go at Brisbane for looking for a better life in Oz. good thinking I would say. And I bet he don't sound like a ****ing Aussie either!
