Quote: (04-08-2013 12:17 PM)tenderman100 Wrote:
Quote: (04-08-2013 12:05 PM)Partizan Wrote:
Good riddance to the old cow. Thatcher epitomised everything that was bad about the 1980s, Gordon Gecko 'Greed is good' culture. She initiated deregulation in the finance and banking sector which led us to the mess we are in now. Her 'Good Society' policy was a disaster. Hundreds of thousands of state owned council homes were sold off to private developers resulting in a huge housing shortage that the UK has now. She was vehemently anti trade union/anti worker and her treatment of the miners showed. Her policies ripped the heart and soul out of many working class communities when by shutting down the traditional industries like coal mining and manufacturing leaving them with nothing. Whole communities and cities like Liverpool were simply abandoned and left to their own devices, re: Broadmoor and Brixton riots. The YTS scheme another dismal policy which failed so many. Her economic model in which some here speak so highly of went wollop with the crash in '87. By the time she left office in 1990, the UK was a shell of its former self. The manufacturing industry which had built the UK was all but gutted and many former workers were poorly trained or ill equipped to deal with the changes. Those that did get jobs ended up in low paid, non union services sector. In foreign policy, she cosied up to some of the worst right wing desports like Saddam Hussein, General Augusto Pinochet, Mobutu of Zaire and Suharto of Indonesia whom she sold weapons knowkingly that there were being used to slaughter East Timorese villagers.
It was fitting that she died on the 32nd anniversary of IRA Hunger Striker Bobby Sands being elected as MP. I am sure Mr. Sands cracked a big smile today at seeing his arch nemesis get a red iron hot poker shoved up her arse by Satan himself.
It's a good thing Thatcher de-regulated finance and banking, otherwise you WOULDN'T have a banking business in the City today. And Thatcher has ZERO responsibility for the excesses of the early 21st century.
It's a good thing that Thatcher broke the backs of the Trade Unions, which were instrumental in keeping Britain a 3rd world country. That a trade union could grind an economy to a halt is completely unacceptable. And do you WANT to go back to a coal-fired economy? Really?
Manufacturing was going to the 3rd world, no matter who was in charge. That's not Thatcher's fault.
All the haters, like you, have some gauzy vision of working class utopia. Give it up. Those days are gone. And good fucking riddance.
Absolute rubbish. Thatcher polarised and divided a country with her individualistic policies which helped to atomise many working class communities.
1. It was not a good thing when Thatcher introduced the neo-liberal light handed market capitalism. The effect of this was that the banks no longer under firm scrutiny from the State went on a credit splurge which lead us up to the debt bubble collapse double dip recession that we have today. She got the ball rolling on Deregulation that Reagan, Blair and Brown followed.
2. You say that Manufacturing was going 3rd World, again more uninformed tosh. The coal and ship building industries were feasable. There is enough coal in the UK to last another 500 years. It was a sustainable industry but deliberately destroyed by Thatcher to break the unions. Coal was even imported from abroad. Her attacks on union rights was just deplorable. I believe that workers have a right to representation.
3. Privitisation was an unmittigated disaster. There is something reprehensible about selling state assets to capitalist speculators for next to nothing. These state assets had been built up on the backs of the labour of the workers who built it, only for these assets to be sold to private speculators.
4. Her disgraceful treatment of the IRA Hunger Strikers. She refused to allot IRA men the status of political prisoners and instead recognised them as common criminals which they were not. They acts were politically motivated. She was a ruthless bitch who showed no remorse nor any sense of humanity when she allowed an elected representative of the House of Commons, Bobby Sands MP to die. In Northern Ireland there was Shoot to kill, summary executions and widespread torture of suspects in custody.
Overall she divided a country and left a terrible legacy. I'm not surprising that many of the American Rightists here are having a wankfest. To be honest I wish the IRA had zapped her and her cabinet at Brighton in 1984. It would have saved alot of people so much suffering. Britian today is a broken shell of a country with huge wealth inequality and an atomised individual society. She was wrong.
Anyway lets privatise the Bitch's funeral and sell it out to the lowest bidder. Its what she would have wanted.