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[Comrade Kal]

Slight exaggeration. But Thatcher was very close. My american friend asked what was so bad about her. Off the top of my head, I told him:

A) Almost started a civil war. Attacked innocent miners then manipulated the press to make it look as though the miners attacked first.

B) Black Wednesday, where Britain lost £400,000,000 in one day, and pensioners who got their pension on that day or soon after lost almost all of it. Basically, there were people whose pension basically vanished through Thatchers cock-up.

C) She stole milk from schoolchildren

D) She granted Augusto Pinochet asylum (he's now Surrey's resident war criminal and torturer) because he lent a small hand in the Falklands war. Reason enough, apparently, to ignore the 200,000 people he tortured.

E) Dreadful management, with power cuts almost every week.

F) Sold off all government-owned businesses! Problems with transport? Telephones? Down to Thatcher i'm afraid.

Not as bad as Hitler of course, but I wish only the worst on Margaret Thatcher. May she die a prolonged, agonising death.

[MSpencer]

Don't you guys get it? The schoolchildren don't need milk, and I don't think that blackouts really have to do with her. She's not the one maintaining the power grid.

[Comrade Kal]

Even if that were true Spencer, you can hardly forgive her for nearly starting a civil war, letting Pinochet go, and Black Wednesday. I really do hope someone captured her and tortures her for days on end until she screams for mercy. And then they can torture her again.

[Detail]

Here, have a topic and take ya hate out of my nice Political Compass topic.

[chemical ali]

It was good for the children to have milk, now everyone has crap teeth and bones because they don't have enough calcium. The free milk provided the poor with something that wasn't readily avaible at home.

[Tom]

Exactly. The only reason she took it away was because it would save government spending.

Most of the problems in Britain today, The pension crisis, the terrible school system, the asylum situation, The terrible public transport services all Thatchers fault. Blair has done his best at trying to sort the problems, which has resulted in 66 tax rises and many in stealth to cover their government spending gap.

[Hostile]

Here, have a topic and take ya hate out of my nice Political Compass topic.

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LOL, I think that's funny. Give them thier own playpen to wrestle in.

[chemical ali]

Yeah now spence and kal can argue in their own special topic.

[MSpencer]

You do know that drinking water has calcium in it, right?

[Comrade Kal]

Yes. But even so, milk is better for you... to cancel it was pointless. And anyway, milk doesn't really matter next to all the other stuff.

[chemical ali]

Milk fills you up and its nice in winter when it was warm, I remember at my nursery I used to have it, my parents paid for it this was in the early 1990s, so not that soon after the free milk was stopped. I mean how much would to give children free milk?

[Comrade Kal]

If the whole point of this is to argue about Thatcher, we could be more focused on her battering the miners for no reason and the country almost falling apart rather than the cruel but a bit rubbish getting rid of milk. I only really put it in the list as a juxtaposition, after the first two.

[Shine On]

MSpencer What do you know about the British political system!?!

Your country has turned into a Xenophobic slum since atrocities of September 11th 2001. And that only happened due to bushes negligence and complacency.

Tell me im wrong!

How many terrorist attacks happened under Clinton?

Its all about the OIL baby!!

And only a complete moron would suggest that water is as good a source of calcium as milk! Jesus Christ! What planet do you Americans live on??



Thatcher is the only Prime Minister in British history to have created poverty. The only decent thing she did (other than retire) was to stand up to General Galtieri of Argentina in the 1982 Falklands conflict!

Other than that she was a Bitch!!


My brother remembers her taking away the milk from schools in around 1980. He's 30 now and still bares a grudge against her for that

[MSpencer]

What does that have to do with anything?

[Tom]

How many terrorist attacks happened under Clinton?

Sorry but i'm going to have to go against you here. Osama Bin Laden did attack the US many times. He attacked US embassies in other countries. The WTC was also bombed in 1993 (not sure if thats clintons time) but it still happened.

Its all about the OIL baby!!

Most people know.

And only a complete moron would suggest that water is as good a source of calcium as milk!  Jesus Christ!  What planet do you Americans live on?? 

Don't categorise all americans. Its only a few who are misled or actually support bush.

Thatcher is the only Prime Minister in British history to have created poverty. The only decent thing she did (other than retire) was to stand up to General Galtieri of Argentina in the 1982 Falklands conflict!

I think the falklands was the most pointless war even. Its a shit zone, i would have let the guy have it. He obviously needed it more than us, yet i guess that would have went against her plans or reviving the British Empire LOL.

My brother remembers her taking away the milk from schools in around 1980. He's 30 now and still bares a grudge against her for that 

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Heh, she was evil

[chemical ali]

Thatcher is the only Prime Minister in British history to have created poverty. The only decent thing she did (other than retire) was to stand up to General Galtieri of Argentina in the 1982 Falklands conflict!

I think the falklands was the most pointless war even. Its a shit zone, i would have let the guy have it. He obviously needed it more than us, yet i guess that would have went against her plans or reviving the British Empire LOL.

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Hes not having the penguins and the Falklands can be nice a place my friends brother is stationed their on a destroyer as the islands are Military garrison incase the argies try and have a go again, I admit it was a costly war but 'we got 'em'.

[Comrade Kal]

It was more about principle... you couldn't really just let him claim british islands with britons living on them, otherwise it would have happened everywhere else... Gibraltar, for example.

[chemical ali]

If the Spanish got that they could control the Med, besides its perfect for ships stopping off before they go through the Suez Canal.

[MSpencer]

Spain wouldn't risk getting booted out of NATO and bitchslapped by the UN for Gibraltar.

[Allied General]

Thatcher actuallly raised enviromental issues and forces balls into politics, the only thing she did wrong was POLL TAX

Also the miners industry was in a state of structural recession, they should have deal with it, what did they think? that some how UK coal was going to last forever or that competetion was suddenly gonna die?

too many bleeding hearts out there.