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12th April 2013 #241
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When these people in this country in so-called poverty give up smoking, drinking, gambling, feeding their assorted pets and creating more and more new orrible little chavs, then I will have some sympathy for them...maybe.
Compared with the people in this world in GENUINE poverty, they have easy lives.
Let them all live in the slums of Bangladesh or other 3rd world countries for a few weeks, or in a refugee camp in Monrovia, to experience the true meaning of poverty.
Useless idle gits.
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12th April 2013 #242
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12th April 2013 #243
I don't need to spend ages telling you why,Terpe summed it up perfectly.
I was pissed off with an the miners and unions holding the country to ransom.
The country was just a pile of washed out crap according to the rest of the world.
I was working hard earning good money,Maggie appereared and for me and many,many others was the figurehead the country needed to feel we were once again an Important country.
Sometimes you need to be pushed and to some extent told what to do,for me she took know ....,unions were strangling the country and as sad as it was for the miners she was right,it was uneconomical to continue as it was.
now call me a mean git but thats life,If I got to work and no-one wants a taxi anymore are you gonna bail me out ?
Doubt it,it's up to me to do something else.
People think the are owed a living makes me puke
It's like the measures being taken now-we have overspent but the majority of the voting public dont grasp it,they will vote for another party as they dont like being told to tighten their belts,as much as we can blame the bankers we all have to take responsability for spending too much.
We did not need the Platinum visa card £15,000 credit limit but we took it anyway and spent it,then moaned when we had to pay it back!
Moving on to the Falkands dispute,I remember being shocked when that guy came on tv and said Hms Sheffield had been sunk!
I was wanting to bomb Buenos Aries!
Our guys did us proud and as for the sinking of the Belgrano great job carried out,not our fault the junta government filled it full of conscripts,they wanted to defeat the British and failed so maybe don't invade the Falkands Islands then!
Never felt more British and proud when we defeated them and in total admiration of Maggie in her unwavering and decisive leadership.
Yes she had brutal decisions to make-but she did them and never hid away.
totally admire the woman,always will.
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12th April 2013 #244
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Well said Les
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12th April 2013 #245
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Hear hear !
So, we're supposed to feel sorry for people 'living it large' beyond their means ?
No leader can save anyone from their own stupidity, but when you've got a stupid leader, like Scargill, or 'Red Robbo' of British Leyland 'fame'...
Actually, in their case stupid is too mild a word. CRAZY would be more apt.
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12th April 2013 #246
wow, its better then yesterday, but i am glad my sheep got mentioned againnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
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12th April 2013 #247
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12th April 2013 #248
amazing indeed, to a few she was not right, but then again nobody wants to be told what to do, but someone has to do that job, there are a few who like what she had done, me i cant remember other then the miners and the war, both affected me, but like many most have come out good
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12th April 2013 #249
“There is no such thing as society” – Margaret Thatcher, 1988
“There is no such thing as Margaret Thatcher” – Society, 2013
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12th April 2013 #250
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12th April 2013 #251
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I dont know what media you are going on about because most of the media i have seen since thatchers death is very much PRO thatcher !
The sad part about this is that normal people like yourself actually fall for all the right wing Tory anti union rubbish with their scare stories about anyone in a union must be trying to bring the country down
Most people these days have been brainwashed into thinking anything to do with a union must be bad for the country = thats the real spin
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12th April 2013 #252
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12th April 2013 #253
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Oh so its so great working in this country nowadays
Most employers here are paying peanuts = care to blame that on the unions
A few rocks in the middle of nowhere how do we stake a claim for them ?
thatcher entered that war because she looked at it as a vote winner (it worked)
i just viewed it as a total waste of life and it could have been handled better
Btw the british empire ended years ago so stop harping on about a bygone age
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12th April 2013 #254
The amazing thing about Thatcher is that if it wasn't for the Falklands she would've lost the second election. She came to power in '79 interest rates doubled, Vat almost doubled from 8 to 15% and between '79 and '82 unemployment went from 1.4m to 3.5m.
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12th April 2013 #255
It was British territory! A few rocks lol
Home to the Falkland islanders I'm sure they would dispute that with you
How does many of the Large powers past and present lay claim to anything then?
She entered the conflict because the Falklands were invaded by a foreign army,do you think she should have abandoned them
How do ya handle it better,ask them nicely to leave
Parts of the Empire still remain I'm glad to say.
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12th April 2013 #256
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I vote we share London out.
It would probably qualify as foreign territory.
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12th April 2013 #257Oh so its so great working in this country nowadays
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13th April 2013 #259
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The islanders could have been given the option to move to the uk
Sending a large task force there was not a great idea and cost the lives of many
I respect those servicemen who fought in that war but i never agreed with that conflict
Really how can we claim those islands with them being so far away
It turned out to be a good vote winer for Thatcher anyway and she realized that in the first place
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13th April 2013 #260
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I blame thatcher for that because her union reforms went way too far
Union bashing from the right wing gutter press reached new highs
Even working class people started to believe that the unions were all bad
So what have we ended up with........
Many normal workers dont have anyone to fight for their rights
Let me enlighten you a little bit to what is going on in the uk right now
The people who fund the Tory party dont want any unions
No unions means more profits for the fat cats = lower wages zero workers rights
Which is why we have ended up with the government giving tax credits to the low paid
Anyone in employment should not need government hand outs because their wages are so low
Average boardroom pay has rocketed in the last 10 years while the workers pay on the shop
floor has remained stagnant
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13th April 2013 #261
So going by your line of argument if the Germans had invaded this country and taken over we all should have been shipped off to other British land... like The Falklands?
As for distance, I already explained that in an earlier post ... distance in land ownership is irrelevant, otherwise all the Brits who own land abroad should have it taken off them!Keith Driscoll - Administrator
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13th April 2013 #262
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...and much more important...Hamilton is on pole at Shanghai.
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13th April 2013 #263
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And Red Bull may have been a bit too tight-fisted with fuel
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13th April 2013 #264
I'm moving to the Falklands
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13th April 2013 #265
According to one official: 'She did not for a moment think that Hong Kong was in any way comparable with the Falklands, despite the paranoia in the Foreign Office. There were many important differences, number one among them being, from her point of view, that if Britain had had to welcome every last islander and every last sheep from the Falkland Islands into Britain, then there would have been no political consequences for the person who had opened the door. If Britain had to accept even a fraction of the population of Hong Kong, it would be political suicide.'
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...a-1543375.html
as for ownership maybe you should tell the chinese about that, when they claim Twain and Scarborough Shoal
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15th April 2013 #267
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There you go ...and people don't believe me.
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16th April 2013 #268
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I have no ill feelings towards her, but the entire funeral and media frenzy is just ridiculous, blown far out of proportion. The ranting in the streets, the ridiculous social media comments. She's dead, and most of the policies she enforced had already started to be introduced by the previous government, many of them were necessary, but in realistic terms it was because she was so vocal and strong willed that people remember her. Appreciate that she was a Prime Minister and not a President. THE PARTY with her as leader was elected in three consecutive times because democratically people believed what she was doing was right.
Unions, yes they were out of control, in fact, we still have problems with unions, whereby they are lead by greedy fatcat 'i'm a real socialist' types. Regardless, unions are necessary and when working for commercial shipping lines I was a member and a union rep, and managed to maintain and improve working standards for everyone.
Anyway, she's dead and thats it, I've got more pressing things to worry about with living people!
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16th April 2013 #269
The living are the dangerous ones
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