A question for non British people
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Okay, so I don't qualify to answer this by your criteria being 1) Scottish and 2) Far too young to have experienced her reign of terror, but I've done enough independant research to know that I'll be celebrating when she finally pops her clogs. The family even has some whiskey saved for the occasion, reckon it's coming up on twelve years old now.
Everyone's already stated just what she did to enrage me so much so I won't bother repeating them but in my opinion, there should be a bloody national holiday when she's gone.
To quote a wise man whose name escapes me:
"Plans have begun for Margaret Thatcher's state funeral. It'll be the first time ever the 21 gun salute is fired into the coffin."
Everyone's already stated just what she did to enrage me so much so I won't bother repeating them but in my opinion, there should be a bloody national holiday when she's gone.
To quote a wise man whose name escapes me:
"Plans have begun for Margaret Thatcher's state funeral. It'll be the first time ever the 21 gun salute is fired into the coffin."
your aware that the falklands war re-invigorated the british the same way the coronotion did, and that had we allowed some second world south american goverment to just take part of our country we would have continued to slide faster to second world mediocrity. its the reason we were taken seriously in europe and the us, its the reason we aren't some back water, and it has a lot to do with your currant (aextremely high) standard of living.jigilojoe said:
Scotland's feelings regarding Mrs Thatcher can best be summed up by Mr Francis Boyle:
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I was only 8 when she was deposed, and what little I know of her is that her cabinet used Scotland as a guinea pig for a new and unfair tax hike (that was later replaced by something even more unfair, but that's a discussion for another time) and left my home city with an unemployment level of over 25%. I cannot believe that destroying over a million jobs with no thought of their replacement was the best way out of the mess the country was in at the time. Sadly, this appears to be exactly what the new tory government is implementing right now.
-Nick
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I was only 8 when she was deposed, and what little I know of her is that her cabinet used Scotland as a guinea pig for a new and unfair tax hike (that was later replaced by something even more unfair, but that's a discussion for another time) and left my home city with an unemployment level of over 25%. I cannot believe that destroying over a million jobs with no thought of their replacement was the best way out of the mess the country was in at the time. Sadly, this appears to be exactly what the new tory government is implementing right now.
-Nick
My hometown of Glasgow was seen as a breeding ground for communism, which is why the British conservatives have spent much of the past 70 years actively trying to destroy it. Their tactic in Thatcher's era was to give all those dirty commies something other than politics to worry about by making them all unemployed, which is a dick move of monumental proportions in my opinion.
-Nick
-Nick
First time I heard of her was about an hour ago when my American friend was talking about the exact same thing on Facebook. He didn't like her either.
No, I wasn't aware of that mainly because it's not strictly true, since this wasn't the debate I intended to have I'm not going to go in depth about it. I wasn't aware that it re-invigorated us, though I know that a lot of men died. I know it was more for oil than it was for pride.HotFezz8 said:
You're taking what I'm saying out of context, though, I said it could of been avoided, not that it should of, it was my opinion. After that wall of text you gave I'm really intrigued as to your view on Thatcher in general.
I don't think she was good at all. I think she has ruined the chances of a future woman Prime minister as people will always have this image of Thatcher and her policies when they ever come up to try stand for it. Also I am Irish.
I've known her name and about her political position ever since I was a small kid, but not much else. I definitely did not know she was particularly good or bad.
It was not until a year or some months ago, when I first heard about her being more of the bad kind. And it must've been Peep Show or QI, where I got that information.
It was not until a year or some months ago, when I first heard about her being more of the bad kind. And it must've been Peep Show or QI, where I got that information.
As an American I know little about her besides that she was like a British Ronald Reagan. Since I dislike Ronald Reagan, I suppose that is my judgement of Thatcher too. Unless she was "Iron Lady," as in a female Iron Man. Then she was probably pretty awesome.
