Posted: 05 Oct 2005, 21:42
Eh?paint it black wrote:don't understand why you ain't mentioned fox. b) he's cool and he's clever
Eh?paint it black wrote:don't understand why you ain't mentioned fox. b) he's cool and he's clever
i'm pretending to be tory and if i were, which i may not be, for me,i think he would stand out from the crowd mostRobF wrote:Eh?paint it black wrote:don't understand why you ain't mentioned fox. b) he's cool and he's clever
My personal plan is that the moment I hear the news, I will be out in the streets singing "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" from The Wizard of Oz.RobF wrote:There are several street parties long planned and funded by ex-miners, dockers, and community organisations across the nation for the day she pegs it. I fancy the Tyne-side one me-self. Though the Class-war one in London, planned for Trafalgar Square on the first Saturday post death should be a little more "active".
Oh you made my day!!! Please get it on tape when that day comes....I'll follow your lead here in Holland wearing one of those T-shirts!markfiend wrote:My personal plan is that the moment I hear the news, I will be out in the streets singing "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" from The Wizard of Oz.RobF wrote:There are several street parties long planned and funded by ex-miners, dockers, and community organisations across the nation for the day she pegs it. I fancy the Tyne-side one me-self. Though the Class-war one in London, planned for Trafalgar Square on the first Saturday post death should be a little more "active".
I am not joking. I've already done it once when I found a web-site that appeared to say she had died. (On closer inspection it turned out to be a site selling T-shirts)
Yeah. tell that to the dockers, the miners, the steelworkers.Master Margarita wrote:[Thatcher] did some good things which needed doing
you might as well complain about the crippling effect enclosures had on small landowners in the eighteenth century. it's called progress.markfiend wrote:Yeah. tell that to the dockers, the miners, the steelworkers.Master Margarita wrote:[Thatcher] did some good things which needed doing
Oh you can't. There aren't any any more.
To suggest that I should be disenfranchised, simply because I believe Thatcher's headstone should take the form of a urinal for "convenience's" sake is somewhat insulting. As I'm not a democrat, I shall choose not to take offence. Once.Master Margarita wrote:It makes me sad how polarised most of you are. It's that sort of blinkered mindset which makes you ideal for manipulation by someone seeking to create tension, strife and conflict between people. It is a relief that you didn't live in a place like Yougoslavia in the early 90's, where you would be fuel to the fire.
Some Conservative policies are good. Some are not.
Some Conservatives are bright. Others less so.
Some are warm and sympathetic people. Some are not.
Some have good judgement. Others are called Norman Tebbit.
Same goes for Labour and Lib Dems, mutatis mutandis.
Those of you who say you would never vote Conservative, or will celebrate the day Thatcher dies (who did some good things which needed doing, and some of whose policies have been adopted by Labour) should be disenfranchised. But (unfortunately for us) stay in England where at least you can't do much damage.
RicheyJames wrote:you might as well complain about the crippling effect enclosures had on small landowners in the eighteenth century. it's called progress.markfiend wrote:Yeah. tell that to the dockers, the miners, the steelworkers.Master Margarita wrote:[Thatcher] did some good things which needed doing
Oh you can't. There aren't any any more.
take off the blinkers and you too can enjoy the rich variety of greys between black and white.
Thankyou for proving my point.Master Margarita wrote:Those of you who say you would never vote Conservative ... should be disenfranchised.
1. Privatised a number of industries (BP, BG, BA) which do operate far more efficiently as listed companies. I don't deny that you can question some of the later privatisations.markfiend wrote:What exactly were the good things that Thatcher did that needed doing by the way? I'm struggling to think of any.
Not meant personally butMaster Margarita wrote: I was speaking to one of my partners last night. I work at a large law firm, the sort of place that is considered one of the nation's real business success stories,
That's right. We're all really evil and go to hell. Hence my name, my ignorant little flutterby.MadameButterfly wrote:Not meant personally butMaster Margarita wrote: I was speaking to one of my partners last night. I work at a large law firm, the sort of place that is considered one of the nation's real business success stories,
....the employers' of those kind of firms all end up in hell...don't they?
MB....gets cloak...
Did that really need doing though? Surely it would have been better for the country to have kept those companies in public ownership to keep revenue coming to the exchequer rather than to private shareholders? OK the share sell-offs netted big windfalls but that was one-time-only.Master Margarita wrote:1. Privatised a number of industries (BP, BG, BA) which do operate far more efficiently as listed companies. I don't deny that you can question some of the later privatisations.
Pity she had to destroy the industries the union members worked in too. What's the real benefit of having no company at all over having a company "held ransom" by the unions?Master Margarita wrote:2. Took on the unions who were effectively holding the country ransom. Whilst a degree of union representation is something which I think is good, the control which the unions exerted in the lates 70s made no commercial sense, and effectively paralysed the companies and then the nation.
I don't really want to argue the Falklands, or you'll think I'm a real nut-job.Master Margarita wrote:3. Beat the Argies, restoring some pride to the forces.
1. would it have mattered to the tories even if these hadn't operated more efficiently? using the undeniably questionable later privatisations as examples i would say not. that was never the motive behind privatisation anyway.it was ,of course, money .Master Margarita wrote:
1. Privatised a number of industries (BP, BG, BA) which do operate far more efficiently as listed companies. I don't deny that you can question some of the later privatisations.
2. Took on the unions who were effectively holding the country ransom. Whilst a degree of union representation is something which I think is good, the control which the unions exerted in the lates 70s made no commercial sense, and effectively paralysed the companies and then the nation.
3. Beat the Argies, restoring some pride to the forces..