Yeah, yeah, we all hate the old lady, but she was wise. She knew what she wanted and went for it....."you're inflexible in defense of freedom, you're inflexible with the rule of law that must be applied or their will be chaos."
The woman was repulsive and had no redeeming qualities.
She was fortunate to die in irrelevance and with dementia.
Without senility, the Grim Reaper would have likely snatched her sooner.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 28, 2024 10:28 PM |
She's very quotable, admittedly. I use "weak, feeble" often--to my friends dismay.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 28, 2024 10:28 PM |
Oh fuck her.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 28, 2024 10:29 PM |
She was a cunt
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 28, 2024 10:31 PM |
I thought this thread would be about that horrible movie by Meryl.
Oh well. I'll see myself out.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 28, 2024 10:32 PM |
Despite the fact they had similar views, Queen Liz supposedly detested Thatcher.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 28, 2024 10:33 PM |
My ex is a former Sandinista guerilla fighter and I was watching an interview with Ms Thatcher and his eyes lit up, and said, "LA Dama de Hierro"! That woman had pizzaz and was tough as nails.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 28, 2024 10:33 PM |
[quote] Despite the fact they had similar views
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 28, 2024 10:36 PM |
She was GB’s Phyllis Schlafly…but more successful.
Both implored women to stay home, to make babies and be satisfied with being both breeding stock and subservient, maid-like creatures who should stifle any ambition.
Yet both broads were wildly ambitious women who kneecapped their husbands and were indifferent to families and children in need.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 28, 2024 10:37 PM |
As a gayling I was transfixed by her hair.
She had HUGE hair.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 28, 2024 10:39 PM |
Ugh. Why even exhume this repulsive relic? So happy she’s dead and gone.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 28, 2024 10:40 PM |
[quote] She had HUGE hair.
That hair was not for turning! It had a lot of spray.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 28, 2024 10:41 PM |
R10. Was it all “her” hair?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 28, 2024 10:41 PM |
Like a lacquered cow pie.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 28, 2024 10:41 PM |
Aqua Net Extra Super Hold is a favorite of Dallas matrons, drag queens, and any thrifty gal who has to walk more than half-a-mile to they typist poo.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 28, 2024 10:44 PM |
^^^ err, pool.
Muriel…for Christ’s sake, include an edit tool!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 28, 2024 10:46 PM |
[quote] She's very quotable, admittedly. I use "weak, feeble" often--to my friends dismay.
One of my colleagues (a strident and bossy Australian woman) used to do that, and finally someone called her out on it in a meeting and said she was trying to imitate Margaret Thatcher. That shut her up good.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 28, 2024 10:46 PM |
The day she died "Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead" went up to the top of the UK charts. Rightfully so.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 28, 2024 10:48 PM |
[quote]She knew what she wanted and went for it.
That's not a redeeming quality, Hitler knew what he wanted and went after it too.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 28, 2024 10:50 PM |
[quote] they typist poo
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 28, 2024 10:50 PM |
If the woman were alive she'd help guide us through so many international crisis. Putin would be found w a poisoned dildo up his and Xi would be made to heel
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 28, 2024 10:52 PM |
People like her and her BFF Reagan are spiritual predecessors to the utter shit that the Tories and GOP are today.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 28, 2024 10:56 PM |
Yes, R24. Reagan and Thatcher got what they wanted thru their successors. Brexit and Abortion come to mind. But they didn't care. They did what they to do to put world order in their image
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 28, 2024 10:58 PM |
[quote]People like her and her BFF Reagan are spiritual predecessors to the utter shit that the Tories and GOP are today.
That's a word salad.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 28, 2024 11:01 PM |
Only if you have lettuce for brains.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 28, 2024 11:03 PM |
I love Maggie. I didn’t agree with all of her policies but many were just common sense. Brits became totally dependent on the state for everything post-WWII. Thatcher turned the country into an economic superpower.
R25, what do you mean abortion? Thatcher was pro-choice. It was Labour who were historically Eurosceptic and anti-EU. The Tories were pro-EU. Margaret was always suspicious of Germany running Europe and rightfully so - they caused two world wars and bombed Britain. Thatcher did more to topple the Soviets than Reagan ever did.
Margaret’s daughter is a total delight. You’d never know she was Margaret’s daughter.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 28, 2024 11:03 PM |
OP is Andrew Sullivan.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 28, 2024 11:04 PM |
Are you stoned, r26?. I'd change the "are" to "were" but otherwise it sounds just fine.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 28, 2024 11:05 PM |
[quote] we all hate the old lady
There are many Americans quite fond of her, people who wish we had a woman Thatcher-type President. I know from watching interviews of UK citizens that many there liked her too.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 28, 2024 11:06 PM |
Is r28 gay? She hated gay people. But go on and love her - just know that she loathed people like you.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 28, 2024 11:07 PM |
R31, yeah. I adore The Lady Thatcher. The Iron Lady. I love interviews with her. So tough, and eloquent. America needs an Iron Lady.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 28, 2024 11:11 PM |
She had some mouth and eviscerated the first guy with it. And he was pissed. “They'd rather have the poor poorer."
The second guy called her “despicable”. She spit it back at him and he took it with a good natured laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 28, 2024 11:15 PM |
She's a man, baby! All this love for "the iron lady" really is just people who have a daddy fetish in a woman's body.
That's why so many Reugs and Log Cabinet compare her to Reagan, it's that daddy figure they want for President, no someone who is open to shared power and ideas. Daddy tells me what to do and I like it. I don't have to think about difficult questions, daddy just does it for me.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 28, 2024 11:25 PM |
R34, IIRC, that was one of her farewell appearances in parliament so they were all having a bit of fun with it.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 28, 2024 11:30 PM |
She called her gal pal Raine Spencer to get Raine's hairdresser's phone number.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 28, 2024 11:32 PM |
She did scorch earth policies that have destroyed communities and has affects on them to this very day. Fuck her.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 30, 2024 6:24 AM |
The Iron Lady went w her instincts. The woman should be respected cuz she knew how to get things done. Ms Thatcher was scared of no one! That's a political principle we Democrats could learn from.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 30, 2024 11:48 PM |
Torygraph
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 30, 2024 11:49 PM |
She was a nasty FK, Like a constipated Ronald Reagan in a wig and pears.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 30, 2024 11:50 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 30, 2024 11:51 PM |
This evil cunt believed in the rule of law except for when it came to her worthless son, who went to trial for tax evasion in the US and then, ended up financing and enthusiastically orchestrating a coup d'état in Equatorial Guinea. So much for traditional values and respecting freedom, not to mention that she destroyed countless people's lives.
Also, her accent was entirely manufactured and her obsession with affecting an aristocratic demeanour was about as authentic as a plastic diamond, grimy shopkeeper's daughter that she was.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 6, 2024 12:47 AM |
[quote] We are a grandmother.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 6, 2024 12:51 AM |
[quote] Is [R28] gay? She hated gay people.
She absolutely did not. She voted to decriminalize homosexuality and her speechwriter was gay. Yes, was Section 28 was fucked up but Thatcher wasn’t the monster you want to make her out to be. FDR put the Japanese in interment camps. Leaders have done fucked up things and great things. It’s not all black and white.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 6, 2024 1:07 AM |
Thatcher would be considered a blue dog Democrat in the US.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 6, 2024 1:08 AM |
This is my favorite photo of That her.
It really captures her spirit
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 6, 2024 1:16 AM |
I blame autocorrect.
Is That Her this seasons Anne He He
by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 6, 2024 1:18 AM |
BBC Radio played "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" when she died.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 6, 2024 1:26 AM |
If one turns the pic at R48 upside down it looks like Meryl Streep playing Thatcher.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 6, 2024 1:26 AM |
R50 is not R20.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 6, 2024 1:27 AM |
Thatcher Thatcher milk snatcher!
[quote] Thatcher did more to topple the Soviets than Reagan ever did.
Uh, no. Couldn't stand the guy but his anti-communist tough talk and Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) intimidated the Russians even more than the west realized at the time. That and the Soviet Union was on life support anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 6, 2024 2:11 AM |
Wonald Weagan.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 6, 2024 2:13 AM |
Politics wise I don't care for her.
But beyond that I kinda love her.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 6, 2024 2:15 AM |
She never met a fascist she didn't like. Like her good friend Pinochet.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 6, 2024 2:16 AM |
Funny how both Thatcher and Reagan survived assassination attempts, both had Alzheimer's, and both messed with school lunches.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 6, 2024 2:20 AM |
She was too harsh on the miners, but boy did she have moxie.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 6, 2024 2:29 AM |
She was the most polarising politician the UK has ever seen, and is still widely loathed. Americans have no idea of the societal damage she caused through her doctrinaire actions.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 6, 2024 3:21 AM |
All of my Brit friends fucking LOATHE Thatcher. It's one topic which when mentioned - you can guarantee will get Brits very worked up and angry. Long diatribes and angry, flashing eyes.
According to them - she was an absolute cunt and left an indelible mark on the UK's psyche and society. The policies she implement were not for the betterment of the UK citizens and have left decades of destruction which may never be fixed because they changed British society so much. So yeah... not a well-liked or respected person.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 6, 2024 4:03 AM |
R44- Is Princess Margaret
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 6, 2024 4:09 AM |
She once came here to the states in the 90s or maybe early 2000s I can't really remember for sure for a supermarket opening.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 6, 2024 4:12 AM |
[quote] She once came here to the states in the 90s or maybe early 2000s I can't really remember for sure for a supermarket opening.
?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 6, 2024 4:15 AM |
Did her pussy stink of rust?
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 6, 2024 10:17 AM |
Tesco?
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 6, 2024 10:21 AM |
She and her administration were major supporters of Britain’s infamous Section 28.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 6, 2024 11:54 AM |
R46, the reason she and 5 other Tories voted to decriminalize homosexuality was the idea that if gays were freed from the threat of prison they would be more willing and comfortable with seeking help for their "condition." Don't kid yourself.
The fact that she had a gay person on her staff means nothing more than she tolerated him because he was useful to her. But don't think for a second that she would have given him an ounce of support if he had decided to influence her to change her stance on gays.
Her support of Section 28 was another byproduct of the anti-gay hysteria during the AIDS crisis. It's a major stain on the U.K. that the law stayed in place as long as it did. When Parliament finally was in a position to overturn the law in 2000 under the Blair government, Thatcher sat next to Lady Young (a major supporter of Section 28) in the House of Lords for the vote.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 6, 2024 1:38 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 6, 2024 3:36 PM |
[quote] She absolutely did not.
The fuck she didn’t. From her own lips:
"Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay," she said.
"All of those children are being cheated of a sound start in life. Yes, cheated."
Care to respond?
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 6, 2024 3:42 PM |
She was a pale faced RODENT 🐗🐗
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 6, 2024 4:17 PM |
rest in piss cunt
by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 6, 2024 4:32 PM |
I was 3 when Thatcher was elected, 15 when she was kicked out and I understand why she was hated but I also appreciate she made a lot of necessary changes to how the country worked.
My family was one of the ones that benefitted.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 6, 2024 4:50 PM |
Glenda Jackson delivered the perfect posthumous take-down. Thatcher was not admirable in the slightest,, and contributed greatly to the UK's decline.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 6, 2024 4:53 PM |
[quote] My family was one of the ones that benefitted.
There's always someone. Council house ownership went up 15% under Thatcher's subsidies. Those people are happy although those days are long gone.
I can stand people like Thatcher who believe the entire world should be run as they see fit, based on their personal moral convictions and childhood experience. But the sad truth is Blair was equally repulsive with his New Labour scam.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 6, 2024 5:25 PM |
*CAN'T stand*
by Anonymous | reply 75 | August 6, 2024 5:26 PM |
[quote]There's always someone
A lot of people benefitted when the economy improved. They set up their own companies and provided jobs for people. A lot of people benefitted from being able to buy their council house, when they were given shares in the public sector organisation they worked in when privatised.
But of course there were those left behind.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | August 6, 2024 6:03 PM |
[quote] A lot of people benefitted from being able to buy their council house,
That's what I said, and I gave numbers.
No one is benefitting in that way now. There are always winners in the initial fire sale of state-owned enterprise. But eventually, when market forces are prioritized, a few win too much and your 'left behinds' are the youth paying unsustainable rents in a gig economy who likely will never own much of anything.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 6, 2024 6:15 PM |
Has anyone heard from Mary Decker Slaney lately?
Do you think she'd be willing to recreate her iconic moment from 1984 in 4 years time?
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 6, 2024 6:59 PM |
Elvis Costello wrote a lovely song expressing how he felt about her
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 7, 2024 1:12 AM |
But now it appears to have dredged up a song that first came out in 1939, and sent it all the way to number ten on the current U.K. charts.
"Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead"—one of the favorite tunes from "The Wizard of Oz"—has now become a favorite song for critics of the late Prime Minster, who died after suffering a stroke Monday at London's Ritz hotel. On that very day, a group of Thatcher detractors created a Facebook page called "Make Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead Number One the Week Thatcher Dies."
According to the Official Charts Company—which compiles rankings from various U.K. charts—there were more than 10,600 downloads of the classic Judy Garland song before midnight on Tuesday. The Guardian also reports that the song needs just 5,000 more downloads before Friday to be one of the week's top three selling singles.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | August 7, 2024 1:37 AM |
OP confuses misplaced resolve with wisdom.
Wisdom is not getting what you want.
Wisdom is knowing what to do with detachment, commitment, and humanity.
Thatcher was just a cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 7, 2024 1:43 AM |