Baroness Thatcher dies overnight

**Robert Taylor** · 9th April 2013, 07:58

A very very sad day, may Margaret rest in peace

**rastus** · 9th April 2013, 08:18

Maggie Thatcher passed away in her sleep. May she rest in peace. So Robert who are you going to idolise now. "Don Key"?

**Robert Taylor** · 9th April 2013, 08:22

Originally Posted by rastus

Maggie Thatcher passed away in her sleep. May she rest in peace. So Robert who are you going to idolise now. "Don Key"?

Indeed I am! How about Boris Johnson?

**James Deuce** · 9th April 2013, 08:34

Originally Posted by Robert Taylor

Indeed I am! How about Boris Johnson?

Didn't Boris call Baroness Thatcher "Mummy" on occasion?

**Paul in NZ** · 9th April 2013, 08:37

Well one things for sure she left her mark on life - a pretty big one to boot.... Not sure if I shared her views on a bunch of things but like I said - she left her mark and thats more than most manage.

**ellipsis** · 9th April 2013, 08:46

...i hope they stick an oak peg through her heart before they seal the box...

**Hitcher** · 9th April 2013, 08:53

Maggie is the mother of modern Britain. If not for her that country would still be living in some trade union-led ice age, isolated from Europe and the rest of the civilised world -- a sort of North Korea across the water from France.

**merv** · 9th April 2013, 08:56

Originally Posted by Robert Taylor

Indeed I am! How about Boris Johnson?

Yeah well he's from up Ohlins way isn't he?

**jonbuoy** · 9th April 2013, 09:03

More balls than most modern male politicians too. I think she probably nagged Gorbachev and Reagan into Nuclear Disarmament talks.

**SMOKEU** · 9th April 2013, 09:05

Heil!

**george formby** · 9th April 2013, 09:31

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Maggie is the mother of modern Britain. If not for her that country would still be living in some trade union-led ice age, isolated from Europe and the rest of the civilised world -- a sort of North Korea across the water from France.

I grew up through the turmoil of the Miners strike & the Falklands war. It wasn't pretty. She stopped my milk ration at school.
Got to say, as the decades have rolled on she had the balls to take the long view & most of those hardest hit at the time ended up a lot better off.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
If your interested, have a fossick online for a documentary about the Falklands war & how she brought Ronald Reagan into heel. And Alexander Haigs take on the title "Iron Lady". He compared a meeting with her to being inside ye old torture device, the iron lady, spikes & all.
They don't make em like they used to.

**BoristheBiter** · 9th April 2013, 09:37

Originally Posted by george formby

I grew up through the turmoil of the Miners strike & the Falklands war. It wasn't pretty. She stopped my milk ration at school.
Got to say, as the decades have rolled on she had the balls to take the long view & most of those hardest hit at the time ended up a lot better off.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
If your interested, have a fossick online for a documentary about the Falklands war & how she brought Ronald Reagan into heel. And Alexander Haigs take on the title "Iron Lady". He compared a meeting with her to being inside ye old torture device, the iron lady, spikes & all.
They don't make em like they used to.

Most of the folk we have over from the UK can't stand her and don't have a nice word to say but like most they only see how it effected them right there at the time.

Like you said she saw the long term view and had the guts to see it through.
Can't say that for many politician's.

**george formby** · 9th April 2013, 10:06

Originally Posted by BoristheBiter

Most of the folk we have over from the UK can't stand her and don't have a nice word to say but like most they only see how it effected them right there at the time.

Like you said she saw the long term view and had the guts to see it through.
Can't say that for many politician's.

Yup, i'm from oop north & a lot of what happened, broken families, hard ship etc is still fresh in peoples minds. The fact a lot of them have time shares in Spain & are driving new cars does not get commented on.

**BoristheBiter** · 9th April 2013, 10:20

Originally Posted by george formby

Yup, i'm from oop north & a lot of what happened, broken families, hard ship etc is still fresh in peoples minds. The fact a lot of them have time shares in Spain & are driving new cars does not get commented on.

Yep Geordie by birth most of my extended family hate her, guess that's why we moved to NZ.

Makes for a good discussion, a bit like the on KB.