Hmm.
I'm waiting for people born in the 90s to rattle into her, citing a lot of legacy issues that subsequent governments have failed to patch up as if it was still all her fault.
(thediscokingpin, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:10, archived)

Most people hate her because they are told to. I don't understand that.
I'm not Tory, I don't like the woman, but she was politically inevitable. And I struggle to see why people think privatisation was all bad. I remember nationalised industry. It was just as fucking shit, but for different reasons.

/LOLcontroversionalopinion.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:13, archived)

We have this conversation too often
www.b3ta.com/talk/6213591
( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:16, archived)

I'd agree with all of that.
My community did well out of the right to buy scheme. A lot of people didn't and I understand that, but as someone who benefited it's probably natural I think she was alright.

Plus she sent a squadron of Vulcan's to Argentina just to say 'we might be a little island in the North Sea, but we can screw you good and hard if we want'.
(thediscokingpin, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:18, archived)

just because subsequent governments haven't fixed the problems...
doesn't make her any less contemptible...
(likeajackhammer, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:17, archived)

I agree. But it just makes them more contemptible.
Youre either part of the solution or you're part of the problem, and all that.
(thediscokingpin, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:19, archived)

i think the moral of the story is:
politicians are cunts... the end
(likeajackhammer, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:24, archived)

if you're not part of the solution
you're part of the precipitate.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 12:27, archived)