In a way it’s a pity she couldn’t have lasted another seven days. It would have been so appropriate.
What a night it’s going to be across the North of England tonight.
Just Paisley to go now for the hat-trick. One of the lads here in work from Sunderland said his neighbours at home are having a street party tonight.
Rocko - Can you also create an over the fucking Delaney moon mood please, the closest one to extreme happiness is whimsical. I would ask all posters to revert to this mood once created as a mark of our disrespect.
I’m off to sleep the sleep of the just now chaps. The world is a better place today.
Up the RA.
I normally detest stroke politics, but I wholeheartedly approve of this.
She’d turn in her grave at that joke only for I believe she’s not for turning.
The only person to screw more miners than Jimmy Saville.*
*stolen from elsewhere
#nowthatcherdead is trending and the yanks are very upset at the news of losing Cher.
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]Remember when a group of islands populated by British citizens in the middle of an ocean, many thousands of miles away, were invaded by another country’s military? [/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]Remember how Thatcher reacted?[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]Oh, yeah. Those islands were the Chagos Islands, and she collaborated with the invaders, while denying the islanders (who’d been rounded up and escorted to slums in Mauritius on a boat literally full of horse dung) their human rights. In fact she denied their very existence.[/FONT][/SIZE]
Pol Pot, Pinochet, Suharto, Botha, Ceaucescu, Reagan.
By your friends shall ye be known.
The death of Margaret Thatcher was a “great day” for coal miners, David Hopper, general secretary of the Durham Miners’ Association said today.
The ex-miner, who turned 70 today, spent all of his working life at Wearmouth Colliery.
He said: "It looks like one of the best birthdays I have ever had.
"There’s no sympathy from me for what she did to our community. She destroyed our community, our villages and our people.
“For the union this could not come soon enough and I’m pleased that I have outlived her.”
George Galloway
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[SIZE=12px][FONT=Helvetica Neue][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=18px]Thatcher described Nelson Mandela as a “terrorist”. I was there. I saw her lips move. May she burn in the hellfires.[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE]
Sky news had the likes of David Mellor and Kelvin McKenzie on singing her praises earlier.
Mellor described Arthur Scargil as an “horrible, horrible man”