Because the South tends to be more affluent than the North, and a lot of Thatcher's policies has a disproportional affect on those with lower income.
Margaret Thatcher has died
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Because the South tends to be more affluent than the North, and a lot of Thatcher's policies has a disproportional affect on those with lower income.
Probably a bad thing. It's going to make things even more divisive.
Same here.
A lot of the policies she enacted negatively affected the North much more greatly than they did the South.
If she gets a state funeral I would air on the side of bad. Very bad.
Well she was a Conservative.
I wonder if they'll send in the goons with batons as a memorial.
It's unlikely the beeb are going go daggers at her the day she has died.
They will be falling over themselves to pay tribute to her
fizzelopeguss
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She was a tough old bird, i'll give her that.
phisheep
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They are balanced. Doubtless they will do the same for Blair eventually.
Gaz Pwnage
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Quite clearly you have no idea of the implications of her years in power.
How old are you, out of curiosity?
I'd be surprised if Nick Robinson doesn't have his cock out by the end of the day.
Some form of balance would be nice though. Missed the first 5 mins or so of 1:00 news, but so far they've only talked about positive things... Negatives have barely been mentioned. But there you go
Don't forget her all-male cabinet.
OverBlood 3
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I suppose if people want to know why she was hated some of her more erm noteworthy actions are in the documentary The Shock Doctrine, it doesn't focus on her however.
EdibleExplosives
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Can't exactly say this will make me sad in any way, but I'm not gonna celebrate the death of someone either.
Ditto. One of the worst villains in modern English history.
grimshawish
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They'll true and make one for political reasons though. Cameron would a) love a Tory state funeral and b) Headlines of stupid ex-Union members and Labour politicians saying stupid things about her.
It'd be a disaster but not necessarily a political one. We'll see what her family want I suppose, they might be more savvy than that.
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Thatcher herself did a lot right but she was too stubborn to see where policies had really negative effects and to mitigate those. In the end though every PM since her has failed to identify areas of the UK that have seen negative or stagnant growth since her time in power.
Its very simple really - Labour created Social Housing around state industry; when that was removed, the Social Housing should have been drastically reformed.
I won't blame her as its not like anyone 'fixed' the underlying problem of the most unemployed people getting housing in the areas of lowest employment, but she did ignore the people really hurting, taking the Tory view to desensitize themselves to any plight they suffer.
I do commend her for having a belief and seeing it through. These days Tories just parrot old ideas without believing/understanding them. And I can tell you - that brings a lot more negatives that anything she reformed.
It really is having their cake and eating it that Thatcher is not a celebration of British Feminism though.
QuicheFontaine
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I'm expecting they'll do some vox pop segment down the pub at some point, where the following opinions are expressed by various members of the public:
"Rest in peace. A strong leader who made unpopular decisions that needed to be made at the time"
"I don't agree with what she did, but she certainly left her mark on history"
"I'm having a drink in celebration, wahey!"
Psychotext
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Well played.
Jezbollah
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Because some wounds run deep, I guess - Especially in the industrial union locations.
Yup. Fucked up the Scottish conservative party so badly that, the last I heard, they were considering changing their name.
manipulate
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I live in Sydney. I can hear the cheering from the north of England from here.
Because the reasons for people not liking her far outreach her terms in office?
Do we absolve all sins if they stay out of power long enough?
My point exactly.
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LanceVance
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You mean like every politician?
fizzelopeguss
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maquiladora
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lol, Financial Times posted their pre-packaged obituary without updating the age.
Long-standing policy to prevent rickets in bones was to provide free school milk to kids in school.
She took that away.
She won't be missed in my house, vile woman.
Sums up my opinion towards her, I wasn't alive during her time as Prime Minister so I have no strong feelings on her policies or character.
thats what I thought. I think any president that dies is a state funeral IIRC. Ford was the last to pass and I'm pretty sure it was a state funeral
I believe they were considering changing the party name to Evil Cunts as somewhat more family friendly than Conservatives.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...t-Thatcher-became-known-as-Milk-Snatcher.html
it was weird reading old children's books show kids getting milk at school.
Napoleonthechimp
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My local council in Leicestershire supplied their own milk to children, so we didn't go without.
Osiris
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