General Chat

Hear hear Muffy and those years also saw the largest growth in the UK population

Roy

True Muffy, couldn't agree more.

Terry some of your comments are despicable and sound as if they come from a teenager in a tantrum. Half the time you sound as if you sort of know what you are talking about and it half makes sense. Then you come out with something I would expect to read in the red rags. Comments which are not suitable on here which I am sure will get RRd.

Terry

Your letting the side down. Take off the nasty post pl..

Vera

I HAVNT READ ALL THE POSTS BUT MY COMMENT IS

ALTHOUGH I DIDNT LIKE MRS THATCHER

SHE WAS VOTED IN BY THE VOTERS
WHY,

IS IT BECAUSE US,,WE THE VOTERS ARE COMPLACENT
GOT THE ATTITUDE THAT CANNOT BE CHANGED..
ALWAYS VOTED FOR THE SAME PARTY EVEN IF YOU DIDNT LIKE THE LEADER,
BECAUSE IF THATS THE CASE
WASTED VOTES

THATS MY BIT :-D

But people don't always vote for the same party, otherwise we would never see a change of government.

Many do, granted, but there as those who change loyalty and hence influence who gets into power.

Can we please keep this thread pleasant and informative.

Just for the record, tempted though I was, I did not report terry's post I was hoping he'd remove it himself.

Comments like "But yet her own party realised she was unelectable, let alone the rest of us.She started well but finished badly and divided the country - as divided as we are on here."

could just as easily be applied to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

My family is far worse off under the latter's miss-management. No pay rise in over five years. Increased taxes, especially GB's annual petrol tax increases, again I could go on and on.

Not a penny in social benefits either as I am to young to claim a state pension and have to live off my savings - silly me of course to have bothered to save in the first place.

Me too Ann, as I stated and I did leave it quite a while but someone has done it for me and others who thought it was out of order

ISP

Not a penny in social benefits either as I am to young to claim a state pension and have to live off my savings - silly me of course to have bothered to save in the first place.

Me too :-(

Roy

well if there was an election in the offing I would not have a clue who to vote for

The Thatcher years are one thing but I do agree with AnnC in regard to who to vote for now should an election be called today

Roy

good cartoon in the paper about blair

he asks will they let me lie in state
the reply well they let you when you was in power

I wouldn't know who to vote for either and I don't think we'd be the only ones, can't trust what any of they say any more, no integrity the lot of them.

IGP, can't you get jobseekers' allowance? You must be entitled to something.

It's pointless tit for tatting - some of us think Thatcher was the worst PM ever and were glad when she was dumped by her "friends", even a lot of Tories think that way. My mum, bless her, was a Tory but she loathed her, she was a big fan of Ted Heath and never forgave her for doing him down.

We all have our reasons for thinking as we do. Not a big fan of B and B either but they didn't cause the damage to communities that Thatcher did.

Think I will take off my blinkers next time as Cynthia has suggested and really look into which party's policies are likely to benefit all. However, not sure I'm convinced that what is likely to be said will be delivered and that's when I feel like not voting at all.

My mother who did not have an easy life in the North East. High unemployment, little money and a big family to feed voted Conservative because 'they were good for the Country'. My father was Labour. So not sure whether she really cared about the 'the Country' or wanted to make her stance.

Vera

In certain parts of the country, your vote seems to be wasted because it is a "given" that a certain party will get in. In Northamptonshire, it was spires and squires country and farmer Tim Boswell would have automatically got a big majority whatever he did. In the Rhondda, Chris Bryant of Labour would get in whatever.

Each election is decided by a relatively few votes cast in the marginals. More and more you see leading politicians courting these marginals whilst deserting the rest of us.

Was Mrs T's plan to decimate whole swathes of industrial Britain to provide wonderful opportunities for yuppies and twincies in Home Counties? To break up family values in traditional working class families to provide a new family structure based on opportunistic entrepreneurship and striving to do better than your neighbours. Was she striving to impose her own set of values on the rest of us? She woud have made a good car salesman, but did we need the Ford Edson that she was selling so well - both here and abroad. Son Mark seems to me the epitome of the Ford Edson in human form. Her dream was never my dream :-(

According to news reports the Queen has raised questions over appropriateness of such a divisive figure being escorted on her final journey by military honours.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/11/thatcher-funeral-pomp-concerns-palace

Gwynne. Probably part of the security for next Wednesday. We need to remember who is attending. Jeremy Clarkson, Dame Shirley Bassey, Ken Livingstone, Arthur Scargill.......

All national treasures who need protecting :-)

Probally Cameron is playing an Ace card over this it will strengthen him for the next general election,those who held her in hiigh esteem will of course see him in shining armour.

tactical.?

The sooner tomorow comes,the sooner its will drop out the headlines,I do feel for her family having to steel their way through all what is in the media about their mother,as not a lot of good is being broadcast. :-)

Did I not read in that article that the funeral was planned during the time of the last government?

*made a slight edit