[arista]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr83v718ejo


[A festival to celebrate the
100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's birth
is due to be held in her home town later this year.
The former Conservative prime minister was born
in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in 1925
and died in April 2013, aged 87.

South Kesteven District Council is planning
a programme of events during the week of 13 October.
A council meeting earlier heard ideas being
suggested for the festival,
including themed beers with names
such as Iron Lady or Grantham Lass,
which would "relate to the Thatcher experience".

According to the Local Democracy
Reporting Service, details of the
programme are still being developed,
with little yet confirmed about what
will be included in the celebrations.

Council leader Ashley Baxter indicated
the event could be called
"The Festival of Thatcher".]


Maybe a High Fence is needed
to keep trouble makers out,

[Kate!]

Ffs. She was a nasty cow.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kate!

Ffs. She was a nasty cow.

3 Elections she won


The General Public
does not agree with you.

[bots]

Originally Posted by Kate!

Ffs. She was a nasty cow.

She was not. Compared to the current generation she was an angel

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by bots

She was not. Compared to the current generation she was an angel

Delusional

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Delusional

Don’t be fcuking rude

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Don’t be fcuking rude

Think you need to take your own advice there.

[Kate!]

Thatcher the milk snatcher. To say the very least. Horrible heartless woman.

[Kate!]

And she put British coal miners out of work

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kate!

And she put British coal miners out of work

They were doomed
Whoever was in power

[joeysteele]

I doubt I'd have supported her.
She went way too far on workers rights.
Plus what she did to the NHS making hospitals trusts.
Then the privatisation con.
Then her terrible poll tax was despicable.

However she was a strong leader, she did win 3 elections, although 2 more gifted to her by split opposition voting.

There were good things she did however and she actually was one of the minds as to being an architect of the EU single market.
Were she around today, as she was when PM, she'd have wiped the floor with all the current leaders of ALL Parties..
She'd have seen off Farage's Reform mob too..

She's also to be fair, the longest post war Prime Minister as well.
Love or hate her, a festival or other commemoration is in order I'd say.

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I doubt I'd have supported her.
She went way too far on workers rights.
Plus what she did to the NHS making hospitals trusts.
Then the privatisation con.
Then her terrible poll tax was despicable.

However she was a strong leader, she did win 3 elections, although 2 more gifted to her by split opposition voting.

There were good things she did however and she actually was one of the minds as to being an architect of the EU single market.
Were she around today, as she was when PM, she'd have wiped the floor with all the current leaders of ALL Parties..
She'd have seen off Farage's Reform mob too..

She's also to be fair, the longest post war Prime Minister as well.
Love or hate her, a festival or other commemoration is in order I'd say.

It’s nice to see open minded views on someone that you don’t like

More ppl need to think like this

I personally don’t think she deserves this… and I can see soooo many things going wrong… but I guess we can’t really stop things from happening because something may or may not go wrong

[bots]

She got rid of the cold war, she was responsible for the berlin wall coming down. She created peace in europe.

[arista]

Originally Posted by bots

She got rid of the cold war, she was responsible for the berlin wall coming down. She created peace in europe.

Valid Point
take note Kate

[arista]

[She's also to be fair, the longest post war Prime Minister as well.
Love or hate her, a festival or other commemoration is in order I'd say]


Yes Joey
I hope Live TV news
will be there

[thesheriff443]

She had more balls than most men
A green grocer’s daughter
Survived an ira attack

[Livia]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

She had more balls than most men
A green grocer’s daughter
Survived an ira attack

Oh but Sheriff... She's hated by the people on this thread who mostly have no ****ing idea what it's all about because they weren't born/ aren't British. And if they don't agree then it must be all kinds of wrong because they know eeeeeeeverything!

[Jessica.]

Bizarre, there must be some very unhappy people around these days if they're putting effort into celebrating someone like that. You know life is what you make it? You can't fight misery with misery.

[Beso]

I'm sure the people of Grantham will have a lovely day.

Perhaps they could suggest Leeds have a Jimmy saville day, seeing as they were besties

[arista]

Originally Posted by Beso

I'm sure the people of Grantham will have a lovely day.

Perhaps they could suggest Leeds have a Jimmy saville day, seeing as they were besties

Crazy for you to joke about a
BBC Child Rapist,
Who died before he could be jailed

[Beso]

Originally Posted by arista

Crazy for you to joke about a
BBC Child Rapist,
Who died before he could be jailed

It must be about 40 years since she was kicking about. Did I appreciate her at the time? Yes, yes I did.

But her enabling of saville far outweighs any long-lasting contribution she managed to make on the UK.

Its how she should be remembered.

[The Slim Reaper]

Would be a nice gesture if the organisers invited the Liverpool and Celtic choirs.

[Alf]

She had her faults, but no Prime Minister did more for the standard of living of the working class than she did.

[bots]

human beings are flawed, they are rarely all good or all bad. We needed someone to break the power of the unions at that time, and she did it. We needed some movement on the cold war and she did it. We needed some strength against the european community and she did it. We needed to be a more inclusive society offering opportunity to everyone, and she did it.

50 years down the line we can see consequences not foreseen, but that happens in everything. She lost her way in the latter years of her government, and that happens to every leader too. Every leader has a shelf life and they never know when they have passed their sell by date

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by bots

human beings are flawed, they are rarely all good or all bad. We needed someone to break the power of the unions at that time, and she did it. We needed some movement on the cold war and she did it. We needed some strength against the european community and she did it. We needed to be a more inclusive society offering opportunity to everyone, and she did it.

50 years down the line we can see consequences not foreseen, but that happens in everything. She lost her way in the latter years of her government, and that happens to every leader too. Every leader has a shelf life and they never know when they have passed their sell by date

Workers rights have been permanently affected to the point where austerity is now the norm and government can take 8k out of a bin mans yearly income, and other working class people will cheer it on.

She did nothing to sort out the cold war; that's just an insane statement. the cold war was broken by a thawing of relations between the US/USSR, coupled with the natural fall of a regime that had reached it's end.

Consequences not foreseen is such a wild cop out, and I'm not sure is true.

She did some good with Europe, that i will concede, but in no way is that the other side of the coin of the state this country is now in.

Destroyed the amount of taxes paid by the wealthy, which paid for free education. She sold off the social housing stock (without replacing it - continued by following PM's) which leads directly to the housing crisis we find ourselves in (not migrants).

Followed Reagans trickle down economics, which is the most provably damaging economic lie that we've ever been sold, and is still being sold to us to this day.

But yeah, shelf life and unforeseen