Thatcher Statue.

[Elchapo 3,094]

10 hours ago, DIDO.1 said:

Sad thing is....no matter what your opinion of thatcher......if this was a statue of sadiq Khan, Stephen Lawrence, Nelson Mandela or Diane abbot.....nobody would do or say anything 

Yep them blue gum cotton pickers statues would be fine , welcomed and showered with flowers , 

[Daniel cain 42,800]

No one wanted it in London...so they offered in to the town she was born...would of beet better off in Bristol

[Arry 18,512]

12 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

No one wanted it in London...so they offered in to the town she was born...would of beet better off in Bristol

So they could rip it down and throw it in the docks.

Cheers Arry

 

[Borr 4,474]

Unions had people down to a three day week , power shortages, Falklands would've been the beginning of the end with anyone else at the helm , think it could've been done much better , ie providing jobs before destroying communities, but she certainly got things done. Loved and hated she was the iron lady...

[Born Hunter 17,622]

and so close! I’m on my way to the shrine now.

[stumfelter 3,032]

2 hours ago, kanny said:

 

He throws like a girl.

[low plains drifter 9,459]

11 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

Some Polish lads i spoke too when the first wave came over years ago when i mentioned this union leader they said they did not like him. I remember Thatcher once praising him has he had gone against the communist party. I think the young Poles who came over wanted all the trappings of a materialistic society with more money in their pockets to have luxury s they could not afford or get in Poland.

 

[kanny 19,322]

Just seen some lefty  bint on the news saying that the statue is going to cause some people  post traumatic stress   

[low plains drifter 9,459]

6 minutes ago, kanny said:

Just seen some lefty  bint on the news saying that the statue is going to cause some people  post traumatic stress   

[WILF 44,182]

Hindsight is a marvellous thing and looking back I can see the seeds of a lot of the destruction of traditional British communities and its associated emasculation of the white British man in Thatchers policy’s but I don’t think it was just her fault, both sides played politics with those men and those communities lives and never had the peoples best interest at heart (imho)

However, she is also the last leader of Britain that you felt may actually be on the nations side in some ways……

But, I have to look back and say her closeness with Regan and the subsequent Americanisation of Britain wasn’t healthy for our little land or our people.

Thatcher was the last of the conservatives……it’s been socialists and communists in blue and red hats ever since.

Ultimately, the left won and its been terrible.

[tatsblisters 7,915]

59 minutes ago, WILF said:

Hindsight is a marvellous thing and looking back I can see the seeds of a lot of the destruction of traditional British communities and its associated emasculation of the white British man in Thatchers policy’s but I don’t think it was just her fault, both sides played politics with those men and those communities lives and never had the peoples best interest at heart (imho)

However, she is also the last leader of Britain that you felt may actually be on the nations side in some ways……

But, I have to look back and say her closeness with Regan and the subsequent Americanisation of Britain wasn’t healthy for our little land or our people.

Thatcher was the last of the conservatives……it’s been socialists and communists in blue and red hats ever since.

Ultimately, the left won and its been terrible.

I still think the capitalists' have a lot to answer for i believe it was them who wanted to flood the country with cheap foreign labour undermining the white working class who a lot like me in the past the only political party that i believe had the best interests of ordinary working class folk was the British Nationalist Party

[WILF 44,182]

2 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

I still think the capitalists' have a lot to answer for i believe it was them who wanted to flood the country with cheap foreign labour undermining the white working class who a lot like me in the past the only political party that i believe had the best interests of ordinary working class folk was the British Nationalist Party

Yeah, fair shout that mate and I think you highlight something important there….I said socialists/communists and you said capitalists and it makes you realise that actually, nobody is on your side.

These fuckers are all on their own side, maybe it’s always been that way?…..it probably has but as long as you were free to go about your business and be left alone if you wanted then you could live with it, but now we are regulated like f**k about every little thing and now it’s not so easy to live with.

[tatsblisters 7,915]

11 hours ago, sid g said:

i took advantage of everything thatchers government had to offer the right to buy . enterprise allowance scheme,   and i took 2 lads on  the youth opportunities programme , 

Their was winner's and losers under her premiership without a doubt i know lads who sett up demolition business's as their was no shortage of labour from lads who had lost their jobs and were willing to work for peanuts but it was cash in hand to top up the dole money i did it myself that and hod carrying for a few year. One of the benefits of her premiership for me i am sat in my house and not having to pay rent and mortgage free.

[chartpolski 20,371]

There are very, VERY few politicians who are on our side, but there are one or two.

Lee Anderson, who has been terribly misquoted and monstered about his comments on food banks is one, but he was Labour, and went over to Tory, so the left was allways just waiting to destroy him.

The Tories talk about immigration and come up with grand ideas that never reach fruition, but let's not forget, it was those two odious creatures, Blair and Mandleson who threw open the doors to unlimited immigration, and it's the left that will do everything they can to prevent the Rwanda plan proceeding.

So, the way things are going, we can look forward to a hung parliament, and probably a Labour, SNP, LibDem coalition.

What can we do about it ? Very little, in reality, but not voting for any of the main parties, and voting for an Independent or maybe the Reform Party, may just send a message, but I won't hold my breath.

Cheers.

 

[tatsblisters 7,915]

1 hour ago, sid g said:

not everything she did was right but some of what she did was beneficial to some . i was painting pylons during the strike we used to have striking miners come for a bit of extra cash -- they never lasted long still mates with one from barnsley , when he came out the pit he set up his own delivery  company got a fleet of vans and a bigish work force delivering medical supplies so it worked out for him ,,

I know she shafted the Nottinghamshire miners and their communities they if anyone should know never trust a politician.