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Mrs T was / is a true hero. What have you ever done to save this country -- other than write unabashed socialist tripe?

Who would you rather have had take us into the global economy? Michael Foot?

Josh:"If Norman Tebbit had said he was glad that Foot had died, the leftist media and blogosphere would have been up in arms with faux outrage."

Nope - many would have just said: 'Typical'.

As for Thatcher: I'm still waiting for the head to be cut off and the stake to go through the heart, just to make sure she actually has gone. To paraphrase Buffy: 'First we slay, then we party.' If Thatcher -worshippers want to shed inconsolable tears and commit suttee on a pyre of burning copies of The Sun when she does die, no-one else will mind. Or care.

Poor Stuart,

I think you're confused. I was pointing out how unpleasant it is for Laurie to wish harm on Thatcher and propose breaking out the party hats on her death.

Oh, by the way, the Shift key (which can help you type big letters) is the one under the Caps Lock.

Sheumais I doubt that you can, but FWIW I view Brown and Bliar as Thatcherite, as witnessed by the continued increase in social polarisation on their watch. Brown even had tea with her. It was Thatcher that brought neoliberal economics to this country, with dire consequences for all of us, including her supporters if only they could make a connection between the keys running down the side of their Jags and their own parochial self-interest. You can dress it up how you like there were and still are plenty of alternatives, only Thatcherism has handed the keys to corporate interests and we won't get them back. You can ascribe worthy intentions to her kind if you wish, I am under no such illusions. The rich have made themselves massively richer at the expense of the poor and the middle classes. The shift in national wealth upward is undeniable and dramatic. It has blighted the future of generations to come and the poverty it guarantees, kills. This is Thatcher's legacy. You won't get it but that's fine. Just a shame the weather's turned because a BBQ would have been nice.

@Darren Bunt - where d'you get the idea Blair was a socialist? He was a tory in all but party membership.

To those that repeatedly point to the 70's as an example of socialism being baaad m'kay, there were 5 Labour governments before the disaster of James Callaghan's "Winter of Discontent", unemployment was never so high as it was under Thatcher, & by 1981 she was the least popular PM we'd ever had. It was only the Falklands that saved her.

and Luddite, who is taking the piss out of who?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dtTfTGt77g

more, luddite, fair play?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duCXO1tOkkg

shut your mouth michael smith,when i need advice about shifting keys i will rattle your cage and ask you.

Might as well have a bit of Val Doonican and his Ring and Rockin' Chair, to get the tears really flowing here, emotionally,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6QfGzsLg1Q

Stuart, when they start correcting your spelling, you're getting to them.

Cheers mate.

Throwing millions of people to the dogs, and seeing how well they fend for themselves, inevitably kills people. Thatcher is a mass-murderer.

Ripping apart education, closing the options of a way up for the poor, banning them from having milk or a decent school meal, is child-abuse. Thatcher is a child abuser.

Launching an illegal war against a militarily weaker power, in order to regain a colonial possession that never legitimately belonged to Britain, and claim it was to protect a couple of hundred "British" sheep-farmers (though so so far from Britain and utterly unconnected with it) who had been equally illegally planted there - is colonialist militarism, and the blood-thirstiness of her actions could be tried in court for Crimes Against Humanity.

Destroying the economy, attacking those on benefits, flogging off the pride of British industry while gutting the rest, then letting the rich get richer as financial wizards - yuppies who were reincarnated spivs - was deeply insulting and humiliating to very many decent hard-working men and women, and to those who ended up starving, or freezing in homes they couldn't afford to heat, or committing suicide in desperation at their tragic situations, it was fatal. Thatcher committed genocide on her own country, the one she claimed to love so much!

So in summary, Maggie was child-abusing mass-murderer, guilty of crimes against humanity, who destroyed the economy and committed an unspeakable genocide against her own people. Is anybody surprised that we are going to LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT when she dies?

The downside is that she isn't dying a death anywhere near as painful as she deserves, nor will she be punished in full for her crimes. The good news is that when she dies, there'll be a grave, where we can all express our real feelings on the matter.

Perhaps we may draw inspiration from a poem by Byron, on the notorious hard-line Tory, Castlereagh:

Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, and piss

And now 8% cuts from the carcass of your military. I predict The Malvinas will be Argentine in 5 to 8 years.

Laurie Penny. I may admire your passion but not your politics. In your youth you want to change the world, but as you grow older you want things to remain the same. But getting back to 'EVIL' Maggie, and some on the political-left, need to get over Mrs T. I ever understood why the Argentines never thanked Maggie and of course the British military, for their liberation from a right-wing military dictatorship. How many died horrible and cruel deaths. some say 10.000. and how many are alive today because of Maggie.

Stuart.. Buckskins is right, your comments have the same value as the next man.

Luddite. Galtieri was on his way out, like Thatcher his government got a temporary bounce by the use of blind patriotism (and a wild goose chase for oil) to distract the natives. Yes the Argentinian govt. were evil, even more evil than Thatcher's chum Pinochet's Chile but what happened next was irrelevant to her. And actually what happened next was yet more neo-liberal economics which completed the screwing of the whole country. They got Thatchered twice over. Nothing to be grateful for there.

@Luddite. Yeah, it wasn't the last time she drafted in the Police. Remember the Miners Strike? Luddite you Tory swine!

Thank God the majority of human beings don't spill such evil thoughts out into the public domain..how can you wish death on anyone unless that person has committed a heinous crime against a loved one..Margaret Thatcher stood up for what she believed in..she was a politician with more balls than all the politicians in goverment in the last 20 yrs!!! i don't use big words i am not a walking dictionary and i have grafted my ass off since i was 16 yrs old when i had my first child..keep your vile thoughts to your selves instead of spurting them all over newspapers for maximum effect!! Oh yeah and by the way the electorate never turned their backs on Margaret Thatcher her own treacherous ministers did to try and keep their own arses in power..and look what happened to the conservatives then..obscurity for nearly 20 yrs..wake up and smell the fresh air..

@Iden, I'm glad you like the way I portrayed Margaret, our beloved ex-leader. It appeared to me that you found my analysis somewhat comic. But comedy does get to the root of the issue, don't you think?

Here is a thing you got right:

'Thatcher never won 50% of the vote in any of her three terms.'

Yes granted. I was definitely wrong here suggesting otherwise. However this one thing you got wrong. You wrote:

"inefficient mines with their highly paid workers" - Incredible. Highly paid? Wow. So earning below national average wages is "highly paid" in his world? What a crazy neocon.

The miners were highly paid in comparison to road sweepers and other labouring jobs. The pay I think was at least four times as much. Mining was a pretty well paid job, and actually it still is. The key point I made is that other poorer workers have to pay tax. Some of that tax goes to miners via taxation as the mines were being subsidised by the government. As such miners were benefiting from money given to them by much poorer workers. I don't know if the miner's wages were below the national average... do you have any figures from that time? But it doesn't matter, miners were being highly paid in comparison to other workers. And in effect poorer workers were subsidising the wages of the miners.

Its good to express the many positives of Mrs. T. I mean was everything she did all bad?

Don't believe a word Luddite and Buckskins say to you : your words have far less value than the next man's because they don't have capital letters and full stops.

A roller coaster eh? I hear that it was a merry go round and you fell off one of those dancing horses.

Luddite: The capturing of the ripper was down to two vigilant coppers on the beat who pulled him up on a number plate check, the Ripper made an excuse that he needed to go to the loo in the nearby hedge. The coppers put two and two together and smelt a rat, a hammer was then found in the bushes; it was this which led to him being nailed. It was the actions of vigilant policemen who caught the Ripper, nothing whatsoever to do with Maggie Thatcher.

I wonder how many beat patrols we will lose under Thatcher's Tory successors?

I think Stuart raises a valid point there Mr D. I recall how you drew attention to my over use of words and yet you criticise him for his lack of grammar. Actually, despite all of that, there's one thing about Stuart, he tells it like it is; his message is always clear and very perceptive in view. I recall you have a background in linguistics, perhaps you need to read the message rather than study the words?

I've never voted Tory, and I doubt I ever will; I think that Mrs T was driven to undermine manufacturing industry in the UK by ideology: and I've no time for her jingoistic britishness. But to use an elderly woman's frailty as an excuse for your undergraduate level posturing is contemptible. Shame on you.

@stuart; the problem with you is that you keep trying to label people, left-winger, righty , merry go round addicts.

Lets get this straight, "I am Divine" Say it three times so you don't forget.

You're nothing but a capital letters and full stop absentee user.

where are the protests on the streets.where are the unions,where are the radical students waving there placards and fighting the police,where is everybody,what is going on,the french must think were a bunch of woosies and pansies,get out there you radicals before its to late.the french can do it so why cant you,be brave,make a stand.