Thatcher is Dead

[5co77ie]

Just unfollowed the efestivals twitter account.

I follow it for festival news, not posts about celebrating dead people.

Edited April 8, 2013 by 5co77ie

[the_hedge]

Maybe he killed her?

[Guest]

I don't get what there is to celebrate. We're suffocating in her legacy.... her death will be of no benefit to anyone, if anything, it'll be worse

[windy_miller]

Supposedly Ken Livingstone has just been thrown off Sky News for saying that everything wrong with Britain today is because of Thatcher's legacy.

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

Why oh why oh why did this have to happen today! I'm not in Sheffield for the rest of the week as im away with work. I bet the working mans club down the road is like VE Day today.

[grumpyhack]

some things are worth coming out of retirement for ....

yeeeeehaaaaaaaa!

[kaosmark2]

Unsurprised....

There is a real right wing press attack out there basically attacking anyone with a negative view. Its laughable. Zero balance.

[Kyelo]

I don't get the celebrating somebodies death because of politics.

[the_hedge]

"This is your new nurse Margaret......he name is Neil and he used to be a website developer"

" Well hello there Margaret............

Edited April 8, 2013 by the_hedge

[Ed209]

Princess Diana ‏@DianaInHeaven

2h

Nope. She's not here.

[Kyelo]

Really ?

Why not ? She hurt a lot of people.

[Ed209]

Yeah really. Put into perspective of some 'hurt' people around the world, she is a chocolate button.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Just posted something on FB similar but why should you be expected to show respect for someone in death that you would not in life. Given how her funeral is going to be I think everyone has the right to be honest about their feelings.

[lost]

I guess I'm one of the ones that benefited from some of her policies. I think its sir Clive Sinclairs biography where it talks about how the sinclair spectrum wouldn't have existed if it hadn't been for the changes under Thatcher in the early 80's for entrepreneurs, kids programming at home then lead to the UK having a disproportionately large amount of the games and it industries. A 48k spectrum got me into computers where I've made a good living whilst coming from a mining area and a working class background if things had of stayed the same I could of ended up doing that and probably dropping dead from some lung complaint aged 50

[THEBOILERMAN]

where's the party?!

[Kyelo]

Its not a competition. OK, so she wasn't Hitler, but that doesn't mean the pain she caused people in this country is any less real to them

[Chinaski_]

see ya

[The Nal]

23 seconds

[whisty]

Who else has to pop their clogs before your next post?

[thetime]

Im from a family of miners and was a child during the miners strike, she destroyed my family and to this day my dad and his brother in law do not speak. I also had bricks thrown through my bedroom window as my dad worked through the strike, scab scab so to speak.

My self impose alcohol free life is going to get well destroyed tonight, im fucking delirious.

Not even to mention all the other things she destroyed.

[blue_mondays]

Doesn't say much for private healthcare if they can't even keep an Iron Lady alive

[gary1979666]

It's hard to imagine the right being so vitriolic if a leader from the left was to die. I know a lot of people disagreed with her policies, but think a lot of the comments are a very disrespectful. OK, you would have said them to her if she was still alive, but I think that says more about you than her. I'm not saying she was faultless, but no more than other governments - like the labour one preceeding her. She was voted in with majorities 3 times - better mandates than the current coalition.

[pink_triangle]

As a welshman with bonds to northern England, I have little sympathy for a lady who made decisions knowing the catastrophic effect it would have on both areas. This was a person who felt it was ok to throw a few people under the bus if it meant 1 other person got on. The breakdown of communities in the uk is largely down to a woman who promoted the idea that people should look after themselves and forget about everyone else. I think the disgraceful attacks and skiver generalistions about people on benefits are largely down to a culture she allowed to develop.

I have sympathy for her family, but no respect for her as a human being.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

It's hard to imagine the right being so vitriolic if a leader from the left was to die. I know a lot of people disagreed with her policies, but think a lot of the comments are a very disrespectful. OK, you would have said them to her if she was still alive, but I think that says more about you than her.I'm not saying she was faultless, but no more than other governments - like the labour one preceeding her. She was voted in with majorities 3 times - better mandates than the current coalition.

[gary1979666]

Why should you be expected to show respect for someone in death who you hated and despised to your core in life ?