it means that an opinion by someone who lived under thatcher has far more weight then an opinion by someone who didnt :) .

 

Hate to say it Clare, but I'd have to agree with that... There's been far too much revisionism done as far as Thatcher goes.. She was pretty evil, the things she did to this country, the whole "greed is good", "there's no such thing as society" sort of bullsh!t that she fostered has had pretty damn serious socio-political consequences; I would say that 18 years of Tory Rule was pretty much instrumental in the creation of "Chav Culture" that infests our society like a cancer. Compare to Scandinavian countries who had in the same time period a general policy of social responsibility, green politics and democratic socialism under which the likes of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark have positively thrived, dont see many 'Scandi-Chavs', do you...?

 

Nu Labor has done anything to really stem the rot that the Tories began in the 80s, I think Tony Blair with his professed "admiration" for Thatch pretty much damns him and his successor, and his whole lame duck Govt as a whole....

 

Would Thatch win an election today..? She probably would, there are, depressingly, enough selfish morons out there who would still believe in her line of bullsh!t..... <_<

Hate to say it Clare, but I'd have to agree with that... There's been far too much revisionism done as far as Thatcher goes.. She was pretty evil, the things she did to this country, the whole "greed is good", "there's no such thing as society" sort of bullsh!t that she fostered has had pretty damn serious socio-political consequences; I would say that 18 years of Tory Rule was pretty much instrumental in the creation of "Chav Culture" that infests our society like a cancer. Compare to Scandinavian countries who had in the same time period a general policy of social responsibility, green politics and democratic socialism under which the likes of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark have positively thrived, dont see many 'Scandi-Chavs', do you...?

 

Nu Labor has done anything to really stem the rot that the Tories began in the 80s, I think Tony Blair with his professed "admiration" for Thatch pretty much damns him and his successor, and his whole lame duck Govt as a whole....

 

Would Thatch win an election today..? She probably would, there are, depressingly, enough selfish morons out there who would still believe in her line of bullsh!t..... <_<

 

i absolutely agree....

Hate to say it Clare, but I'd have to agree with that... There's been far too much revisionism done as far as Thatcher goes.. She was pretty evil, the things she did to this country, the whole "greed is good", "there's no such thing as society" sort of bullsh!t that she fostered has had pretty damn serious socio-political consequences; I would say that 18 years of Tory Rule was pretty much instrumental in the creation of "Chav Culture" that infests our society like a cancer. Compare to Scandinavian countries who had in the same time period a general policy of social responsibility, green politics and democratic socialism under which the likes of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark have positively thrived, dont see many 'Scandi-Chavs', do you...?

 

Nu Labor has done anything to really stem the rot that the Tories began in the 80s, I think Tony Blair with his professed "admiration" for Thatch pretty much damns him and his successor, and his whole lame duck Govt as a whole....

 

Would Thatch win an election today..? She probably would, there are, depressingly, enough selfish morons out there who would still believe in her line of bullsh!t..... <_<

 

Scott, i don't have a problem with it, it's just the way he put it across. Like our opinions arn't good enough! Like he's better than us or something.

 

Scott, i don't have a problem with it, it's just the way he put it across. Like our opinions arn't good enough! Like he's better than us or something.

 

I didn't really get a chance to read the whole thing (there was a deleted post or two I believe).. I still dont have internet at home thanks to that useless shower of fukkwits that call themselves Virgin (LONG STORY.......), so I dont get a chance to come on BJ anything like as much as I should I suppose to check things out.....

 

But I do believe, fundamentally, that in order to have a fully informed opinion of the Thatcher years, you would have to have lived through it and experienced it for yourself... I did, really was one of "Thatcher's Children" (almost my entire primary and secondary schooling from age six was during her reign - '79 - '90, I left finished Secondary school in the year she finally got chucked out of her PM-ship.... :cheer: ). Talk to just about anyone in Scotland or Wales about Thatcher of my age group or above, and the air will quite literally turn blue with obscenities..... :lol: :lol:

 

As one Political commentator said "Scotland must've been about the only country in the world which discovered oil and ended up the worst off for it..." Please, don't try to rehabilitate or 'revise' the Thatch years to a Scotsman (or indeed a Geordie, Scouser, Welshman, Mancunian, Irishman or Yorkshireman).... :lol: :lol:

I didn't really get a chance to read the whole thing (there was a deleted post or two I believe).. I still dont have internet at home thanks to that useless shower of fukkwits that call themselves Virgin (LONG STORY.......), so I dont get a chance to come on BJ anything like as much as I should I suppose to check things out.....

 

But I do believe, fundamentally, that in order to have a fully informed opinion of the Thatcher years, you would have to have lived through it and experienced it for yourself... I did, really was one of "Thatcher's Children" (almost my entire primary and secondary schooling from age six was during her reign - '79 - '90, I left finished Secondary school in the year she finally got chucked out of her PM-ship.... :cheer: ). Talk to just about anyone in Scotland or Wales about Thatcher of my age group or above, and the air will quite literally turn blue with obscenities..... :lol: :lol:

 

As one Political commentator said "Scotland must've been about the only country in the world which discovered oil and ended up the worst off for it..." Please, don't try to rehabilitate or 'revise' the Thatch years to a Scotsman (or indeed a Geordie, Scouser, Welshman, Mancunian, Irishman or Yorkshireman).... :lol: :lol:

 

Rob didn't put his post like this; he was on the highest level of being patronising AND to his own fiancée! I didn't even comment on Thatcher I was just reading the thread then he made his first post so I had to reply, then he started being patronising to me and changing my posts. Now, if he feels he needs to talk down to me, that I'm not old enough to understand then why has been in a relationship with me for over 2 years? So what I didn't live though it, there was no need for his attitude.

Edited April 11, 200817 yr by Daylight Dancer

oh i get it.....

 

you took the reply i gave to norma personally... <_<

 

well it wasnt aimed at you because you hadnt even been in the thread OR had we commented about thatcher at all... it was a generalisation aimed at youth in particular, especially the ones who did modern history at school where they were told what thatcher was about, then comming on here spouting all the 'facts' <_< they learnt. ... did you do that at school? did you fcuk! so it had NOTHING to do with you! :)

did you do that at school? did you fcuk! so it had NOTHING to do with you! :)

 

What do you mean by that, I'm not clever enough for it?

What do you mean by that, I'm not clever enough for it?

 

lol.. nope.... you told me you slept through history :lol:

lol.. nope.... you told me you slept through history :lol:

 

Lol, fukk off! My school was rubbish we didn't do politics only fukking 'enry.

Anyway it wasn't just me you was being patronising to it was people my age, so yes I would be included in that hence why I spoke up.

No, i don't think she'd win an election nowadays. She's too old fashioned.