Margaret Thatcher RIP (251)

Apr 8, 2013 12:03 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Godsgift
GodsgiftGodsgiftEnnis, Clare Ireland251 Threads 13 Polls 10,040 Posts
WadeWilson: she ruled clare?
or clare was in ulster



You'd have loved her. She made being stupid tax free. uk
Apr 8, 2013 12:04 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Green_Sleeves
Green_SleevesGreen_SleevesCarlow, Ireland174 Threads 37 Polls 4,812 Posts
uk < Nice one! laugh

ireland
Apr 8, 2013 12:08 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
stanley8m
stanley8mstanley8mkildare, Kildare Ireland156 Threads 7 Polls 5,341 Posts
snowlynx: We as Irish people owe her a great debt, she didn't flinch in the face of terrorism.


I don't agree with all her policies. I think she went too far with the hunger strikers.

Then again, they were different times.

I have to say she was a great leader and a tough politician.

She was all for self improvement and implemented a taxation policy that helped many working class people in in Britain to get ahead.

She showed her bravery by breaking the unions and standing up to terrorists.

RIP Maggie. sad flower
Apr 8, 2013 12:27 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
snowlynx: Ah, there you are! Is there an extra pep in your step today?


More than a step Snowy..I let out a big cheer when I first heard the news..I've been smiling ever since.
Apr 8, 2013 12:41 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Glatlol
GlatlolGlatlolDublin, Ireland2 Threads 5,358 Posts
stanley8m: I don't agree with all her policies. I think she went too far with the hunger strikers.

Then again, they were different times.

I have to say she was a great leader and a tough politician.

She was all for self improvement and implemented a taxation policy that helped many working class people in in Britain to get ahead.

She showed her bravery by breaking the unions and standing up to terrorists.

RIP Maggie.


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She was a great role model for me growing up, I am sad that she has passed.
Apr 8, 2013 12:51 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
She went over the top on the hunger strikers and policy in the North of Ireland but she took no crap off the vermin that was the British trade union movement.

Since the late 80's Britain has not had a major industrial strike, thats a fantastic achievement in my eyes.
Apr 8, 2013 12:59 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Godsgift
GodsgiftGodsgiftEnnis, Clare Ireland251 Threads 13 Polls 10,040 Posts
Glatlol: She was a great role model for me growing up, I am sad that she has passed.


I can certainly understand women who have lived through the seventies and eighties seeing her as a role model and to be fair, she never once played the feminist card. She did what she did in a man's world. And I actually do believe that if she had been running Ireland since 2008, the unsecured bond holders would never have been paid.


But I can assure you that very few Scottish people like myself will ever see her as anything other than a tyrant who destroyed our country and all we held dear.




conversing
Apr 8, 2013 1:31 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
modermen
modermenmodermencork, Cork Ireland66 Threads 1,108 Posts
snowlynx: We as Irish people owe her a great debt, she didn't flinch in the face of terrorism.
Well she did flinch .but as a powerful nation they couldent be seen to , she had some good points especialy against the socilists commies, R.I.P MAGGIE
Apr 8, 2013 2:26 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
MisterLeroy
MisterLeroyMisterLeroyCork, Ireland4 Threads 1 Polls 150 Posts
The internet! Where anonymity gives people free reign to speak ill of others with no chance to come back, no repercussions or further thought.

RIP
Apr 8, 2013 2:30 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Godsgift
GodsgiftGodsgiftEnnis, Clare Ireland251 Threads 13 Polls 10,040 Posts
MisterLeroy: The internet! Where anonymity gives people free reign to speak ill of others with no chance to come back, no repercussions or further thought.

RIP



No anonymity here and when could the dead ever have a come back. May she rot in hell. conversing
Apr 8, 2013 4:01 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Glatlol
GlatlolGlatlolDublin, Ireland2 Threads 5,358 Posts
MisterLeroy: The internet! Where anonymity gives people free reign to speak ill of others with no chance to come back, no repercussions or further thought.

RIP



Sure even in real life how could she come back?
Apr 8, 2013 4:26 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
facetowardsfront
facetowardsfrontfacetowardsfrontCork, Ireland42 Threads 1 Polls 2,921 Posts
MADDOG69: A woman reaches the highest office of the land and the Feminists hate her


... which shows that they are mysogynists because they hate strong, independent women.laugh

Not only that but she proved there is no 'Glass Ceiling', which the lazy underachieving Feminists like to blame for their indolence and lack of ability.

You're right about the PIRA. I head it said that she and Dr Paisley were the two best friends the PIRA ever had. Is that ironic or does I smells da conspiracy?
Apr 8, 2013 5:40 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
facetowardsfront
facetowardsfrontfacetowardsfrontCork, Ireland42 Threads 1 Polls 2,921 Posts
mr1983: How do you get to such a sad state that you begin to hate people on forums?


Anyone who accepts the Marxist idea of 'Political Correctness' in the political area finds it impossible to remove it from their thinking in their personal life too. People designated as being 'politically incorrect' are on the banned list/no fly list... call it what you like... the list. Just be thankful this guy isn't the local Kommissar and you're not being loaded onto a train for the camps mate. At a different time and in a different place what you're saying would have you shot by totalitarian tyrants .
Apr 8, 2013 5:51 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
facetowardsfront: Is that ironic or does I smells da conspiracy?
I'd say it's ironic. Though I reckon you smell conspiracy between the birds singing and the sun rising. laugh
Apr 8, 2013 6:02 PM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
facetowardsfront
facetowardsfrontfacetowardsfrontCork, Ireland42 Threads 1 Polls 2,921 Posts
MADDOG69: I'd say it's ironic. Though I reckon you smell conspiracy between the birds singing and the sun rising.


With Northern Ireland, yes.

One example I can think of was the case of two R.U.C. widows who were on the radio about the time of the Good Friday Agreement. Both their husbands had been killed by the PIRA and they were bitter as hell at the idea that the PIRA should be not only pardoned but allowed into government. The funny thing (or conspiratorial thing) is that both their husbands had been shot by British agents inside the IRA on a green light from the British Home Office, with weapons supplied by British agents inside the IRA and in one case the killers escaped on a motorbike supplied by the FRU directly.

That was in Thatchers time {I think} but I'd say she knew as much about it as the widows did. Conspiracy? In Northern Ireland where the head of the PIRA's anti-informer unit was an informer taking out genuine members? Surely not! .. oh no, not at all. Everything is just like the government says it is laugh
Apr 9, 2013 2:17 AM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
sofarsogood74: but the way she acted during the hunger strikes was disgusting. She let men die and then when they were dead and buried gave in to the things the wanted. Who does that?

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SF allowed six voluteers to die..Maggie let four. Read Blanketmen by Richard O'Rawe, he was in Long Kesh/H blocks and was the PRO for the prisioners..SF/PRM prolonged the strike to get Owen Carnon elected after the death of Bobby Sands.

The demands that were implemented by Jim Prior once the strike was called of were the same agreed just before the death of Joe McDonnell..But the PRM (or elements within the provisional leadership) wanted to make political capital by letting a further six young men die..
Apr 9, 2013 4:25 AM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Newlife08
Newlife08Newlife08On the coast, Queensland Australia165 Threads 2,715 Posts
Maggie's death was announced on Australian ABC TV on Monday nt during a show called Q & A when strangely enough the Panel taking questions from the audience were all female, including Germaine Greer.

The main theme of the debate was feminism and how the role of women has changed in the last few decades.

So weird to have the adjudicator interrupt the show to announce Margaret Thatcher's passing. Talk about timing. Questions then immediately focussed on her role as first female PM of Britain.


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eland: sad flower wave
Apr 9, 2013 7:54 AM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Glatlol: Why use that word P?

Wasnt it terrorists she wouldnt give in to in 1981?




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You've got to remember that in Phoenix's world a 'terrorist' is anyone he disagrees with...like Alice in Wonderland words mean exactly what he wants them to mean!laugh
Apr 9, 2013 7:56 AM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
1life1chance
1life1chance1life1chancedublin, Dublin Ireland1 Threads 6 Posts
snowlynx: We as Irish people owe her a great debt, she didn't flinch in the face of terrorism.

"Us" Irish owe her nothing ireland
Apr 9, 2013 8:14 AM CST Margaret Thatcher RIP
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
Glatlol: No, the clue is in the sentence, hunger strikers, they died as a result off their own actions and their refusual to accept that they were the same as any other prisoner.


They were (Same as Roe 3&4 today) political prisoners...Not ODC's..(ordinary decent criminal's).
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