I ❤ JustinBieber

That fat black woman whatever her name was from Holland was good too :o forgot about her

Very impressed with Nicole tonight, very opinionated and had her own mind, far better than the nodding dog Pixie last week She should be on the panel next year

Agree in general I thought it was a very average episode really That Aiden was the best of the night easily, had a really good voice The chav had some potential voice wise to go with her vile personality

Christ, that vile chav needs a bullet not 2 yes's

She did a lot for areas like Cardiff, for areas like Newcastle, Liverpool would not be the "capital of culture" without Maggie having done the groundwork, Leeds is full of prosperous areas now, she did a lot for regenerating cities that were in decline. I can't comment on Scotland but certainly northern cities were transformed by her urban redevelopment and enterprise zone programs

I can't comment on individual cases like your grandad but Maggie did a lot for the working class in this country such as enabling them to buy their own council houses, people who owning a house in their lifetime was just a pipe dream were able to buy their council house, Maggie also introduced share ownership for all, before Maggie owning shares was the preserve of bowler hat wearing toffs with a brolly on their arm but then everything from bricklayers to taxi drivers to students owned shares, she also did a lot to help people from poor backgrounds get into private schools, Maggie was loved in places like Essex. Maggie also was the "father figure" of the enterprise culture that created millions of entrepreneurs in this country. The only way she was trying to sink the working class was by them no longer being working class due to setting them free and giving them opportunity.

Craig is my 2nd fave Bond after Timothy Dalton, Dalton gave Bond a ruthless and brutal edge to him after the cheesyness of Moore and it is ridiculous he wasn't retained, Craig is more of a throwback to Dalton's Bond and definitely infinitely better than Moore, Brosnan etc even if my fave Bond film is Live And Let Die

He has always denied implying that he thought the unemployed should get on their bikes, he maintains that this was how his father dealt with hardship as opposed to rioting, it is one of those statements that can be twisted by either side for their own ends but Tebbit has always denied it and I believe him

And Nicky, Tebbit never said that miners or anyone else should "get on their bikes", he was answering a specific question about his father in the 1930's in relation to the Handsworth riots Tebbit said "I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking 'til he found it." He never once implied that the unemployed should get on their bikes

Ian McGregor was given free licence to do as he saw fit, the government and Maggie refused to interfere, McGregor chose what mines to close, McGregor chose the employment matters etc, the government were probably consulted but McGregor was given a free hand to do as he wanted

Plenty of money was spent up north by the tories, look at Newcastle for example, who was responsible for the development of Quayside ? who was responsible for the Metro Centre ? who was responsible for the Tyne Tunnel and the Angel of the North ? it all happened under conservative's watch including a $h!tload of grants, who gave tens of millions in grants to Nissan to build a factory in Sunderland ? Maggie did, who offered tax breaks to companies wanting to set up in South Wales ? Maggie did via her "Enterprise Zones" Well the miners were given redundancy money and many of them in Notts and Derbys clubbed together to buy their own pits with their redundancy, nothing stopping miners elsewhere doing the same, my guess is they knew that the pits were unprofitable and were never going to make any money, sensible chaps. Simply keeping people in jobs is not a justification for endless amounts of taxpayers money being used to prop up loss making industries that are never going to make a penny, unfortunate for those that lost their jobs but that's life

And for a time the miners were winning public sympathy and the PR war then a group of them thought it would be clever to drop large chunks of concrete on top of vehicles from a great height killing a taxi driver in the process and that was the moment the PR battle was lost as was public sympathy. ~Many miners turned to violence and thuggery instead of peaceful protest

The collapse of banks would have caused an economic crisis beyond our wildest nightmares not to mention serious civil disorder, in the grand scheme of things the closure of some mines doesn't compare with what would have happened had say RBS or Lloyds or any of those collapsed

I have no issue whatsoever with people that are signing on that are genuine, never have never will, my issue is with the cheats, the fakers, those that refuse to look for work, fraudsters, those working on the side etc, I have never had any issue or gripes with those that genuinely want to work and are making the effort to, my scroungers and layabouts comments etc have purely been about the cheats, fraudsters, fakers and those that have no wish to find work

Plus every mine that closed was offered to its workers, if the workers had any faith that the mines were going to make money they would have clubbed together and bought their mines like many groups of miners did in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, if the mines own workers did not have any faith in the mines when they were offered the chance to buy them why should taxpayes have faith in the mines ?

We can't keep throwing good money after bad just for the sake of keeping people in jobs though, the government isn't a charity, the mines that closed were losing money hand over fist, companies were importing coal from Eastern Europe (particularly Romania) as it was cheaper to import than buy British coal as it was so overpriced, it is totally wrong to prop up lame duck industries with taxpayers cash so the closure of the mines that were losing big money was totally the right thing to do, inevitably whole communities would have been affected but it was the right thing to do as those mines that closed were never going to make any money. The coal, steel and car industries were a mess, losing money hand over fist, it was right that loss making places be shut down even if people lost jobs as a result.

Exactly, labour left Britain as a borderline banana republic riddled with strikes, the "sick man of Europe" as we were known as Maggie turned that mess into a thriving, prosperous global business hub and an economic powerhouse (6th most powerful economy in the world when she left power) I am old enough to remember rubbish piled up in the streets, power cuts, the dead being unburied, the army having to fight fires, British Leyland workers spending about 1hr a week at work, and thank god Maggie hammered the unions so that business could again be done in this country

Which I will most certainly attend, I have only queued out in the streets overnight once before and that was for an Apple iPad and I will most certainly be doing it again if this wonderful woman gets a state send off, I hope there is a lying in state too so that we can pay our last respects at the coffin like people did with the Queen mum

Some on BJ would much rather have left British citizens at the mercy of a crazed psychotic dictator (Galtieri) than come to their aid No one knew what Galtieri would do, given his track record towards his own people with thousands disappearing, being murdered and being detained without charge the possibility of genocide of British citizens was high, the Falklands war was totally the right thing to do. Falklands residents were Brits

She looks pretty well there compared with some of her pics from the last year

You missed the bits like tax cuts, mass share ownership, enterprise culture, right to buy scheme, economic prosperity that transformed us from a country handing out the begging bowl to the IMF to become the 6th strongest economy in the world, union reforms that meant Britain could no longer be held to ransom by unions

I make an exception if they are female and good looking ;)

LOL you have accomodating neighbours :o anyone comes knocking on my door asking me stuff 9 times out of 10 I tell them to bugger off :P

Yeah definitely fits in with what I find over here down here that older people tend to be conservative voters, the older you get infact whereas younger people (teenagers and early 20's) tend to be green and lib dem

Yeah had a feeling that would be the case lol judging by those voting figures If your workplace was 35-65 year olds I expect there would be a healthy conservative lead