Margaret Thatcher dead

who are these loony left and extreme right that are losers?..seems a bit of generalising here

are we labelling thousands of people on the back of a couple of people?
 
EC1 said:
who are these loony left and extreme right that are losers?..seems a bit of generalising here
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The sort of pricks who go on marches. Where I work I see a lot of the EDL brigade and there isn't a brain cell between them. Nuggle dragging chavs with neck tattoos.
 
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Politicians need to draw a line in the sand and she frequently got it right. Endless fudging and compromise got us to the situation we were in in 1979. No good

Up against bobby sands and scargill you do not compromise.

Suny. Only on here surely. I suppose it's where you define socialism but if we ar talking command economies and state control of much of our lives, few agree and they are mostly in straightjackets.

It is significant that the banking crisis didn't shift the electorate to the left one inch. Hard left socialism is dead and desperately drifted off into alliances with religious bigots. Says it all
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Playing hardball with the hunger strikers revitalised the Republican movement and delayed peace for years.
 
Its quite simple. If you give into one demand through a hunger strike then there will be another greater demand and so on and so on. I dont think any of the strikers were the slightest bit interested in an agreed peace excpet exclusively on their terms
 
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Who would have thought in 1981 that Gerry Adams would be for an agreed peace.Maybe the peace process needed the personal friendship between Reynolds and Major to kickstart it but did the troubles really need to last 25 years.
 
Liked this from the Guardian television review pages on the Maggie tribute programmes this week;

"Matthew Parris, wise old Ken Clarke and a nicely courteous Ken Livingstone popped up on most, and were the best, and I would have happily watched the whole lot again but for the preening ubiquity of Cecil Parkinson, his impossibly pink cheeks still as smooth as a baby's arse, and still as full of crap."
 
This was ken livingstones quote on the BBC

"But where we stand now, five years after the banking crisis, we can see that her economic strategy failed.

"We haven't achieved the levels of investment that we did in the days of strong trade unions and high taxes."

You would have to be an absolute fcking idiot to agree with that. The idea that the high taxes and strong unions of 79 was leading is to economic success is certifiable stuff

Why didnt the supposedly impartial BBC take him on on the blatant lie in the second statement? There was NO investment in the UK in 1979. Invetsment, as any five year old would know, is spending money with the prospect of a return, otherwise its a subsidy. Thats basic stuff. And aside from the nations cash beings squandered on completely uncompetitive loss making industries which foreign investors were going to come to UK 1979? They pulling out FFS

The idea that Thatcher was repsonsible for credit default swaps in the USA is just a bit stupid

Its hard to believe that Parkinson came out with anything than that. But the Guardian is what it is ...
 
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Evolution in politics surely means the left and right coming to blows, and there are too many brains trust institutions emasculating the political system these days if you ask me.
 
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No. But would a floating voter happily align themselves with disabled kid bashing Frankie Boyle for instance? A silence from many on the left would have been far more effective than the third form sneering
 
How pathetic are Galloway and skinner. More shame on the left

I wouldn't wish a good kicking to within an inch of their life on anyone but if it happened to Galloway I would want the video
 
No fan of Galloway but have plenty of time for Skinner. There are probably skeletons in his cupboard that I don't know of, what politician hasn't, but I like his attitude.
 
Skinner is a bit of a dinosaur though colin and sings repeatedly from same hymn sheet. But never seen him as malicious but this posturing is an embarassment to his party. Not been a good week for Milliband. The public will not necessarily be bothered about the finer points of parliamentary proceedure (why should they be?) but they will see this as playing politics with a funeral.

Thats crap

The left have shown themselves to be (not unexpected in my view) as childish, petty, vindictive, inarticulate and pretty thick over the past week
 
Without the likes of some of those 'on the left', there was a chance that this funeral might have been dressed-up as something it isn't i.e. a national day of mourning.

Like it or not, Mrs Thatch was a divisive figure - politically, the most divisive in living-memory - and a degree of dissention merely reflects that reality. Did anyone really expect those 'on the left' to meekly fall in line with the "Be polite and respectful at all times" directive?

For me, it's right and proper that the record should show both sides of the argument. It's just unfortunate that those 'on the left' who are most inclined to put the counter-arguments forward, tend towards preening narcissism (I'd probably exempt Skinner from this, but very-much include Galloway and Jackson).
 
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Don't agree. It's the pettiness of much of the comment that shows them up for what they are. I don't go along with "don't speak I'll of the dead etc" but when you start playing politics with a funeral then you are in a bad place frankly
 
clivex said:
Don't agree. It's the pettiness of much of the comment that shows them up for what they are. I don't go along with "don't speak I'll of the dead etc" but when you start playing politics with a funeral then you are in a bad place frankly
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You start playing with politics when you award a 'mere' public servant with a ceremonial funeral. :cool:
 
good lads are Skinner and Georgie;)..Skinner is one of the most hard working MP's ever..his attendance record in HOC alone puts yer tory pussies to shame

One Skinner is worth more than 50 tories imo
 
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