Iron Lady No More
Fear not, she lives, and now she has been cast in bronze. A full size statue of Baroness Thatcher will be placed in the Members' Lobby today. The statue was commissioned by the Advisory Committee on Works of Art in 2003 from sculptor Antony Dufort.
The statue's position means that every politician who passes by will have to look up to her. Rightly so.
The statue's position means that every politician who passes by will have to look up to her. Rightly so.
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Perhaps Oxford University would now like to reconsider its decision to withhold an honorary degree.
I suggest a petition, signed by 365 economists.
you make me puke
Sky News now: Ruth Turner questioned again...
If only Bliar & Co. could challenge vested interests in the way she did. Then we wouldn't be in this mess.
Right On!!! Wonderful lady and the only person to give me a decent pay rise after Scumbag Labour wouldn,t give me a pay rise for 4 years.
Why? because I couldn,t strike or take any form of Industrial Action. The unions got the lot and I have bitter memories of Labour
If they had put it in public, somewhere where I had to pass after having recently eaten, I would have taken them to the European Court of Human Rights. My right not to be made to puke is absolute.
There used to be a very good rule that statues couldn't be instsalled until at least 20 years after the subject died. This was to allow the judgement of time to determine whether it was really deserved, and to prevent the subject influencing the decision while they were still alive.
I think Thatch probably does deserve a statue, for being the first female PM, but we ignore these sensible rules at our peril.
And who pays for this? Me, the British taxpayer. They can fuck off with their statue, melt it and use the bronze for something useful.
Excellent. There's nothing like a bit of good news from time to time.
Ah yes, dapper dan, such fond memories. Like practically inviting Argentina to invade the Falklands then taking all the credit when our armed forces kicked them out. Monetarism, 10% interest rates, pulling the rug from under our manufacturing industry, the pound far too high, the Lawson Boom and subsequent bust. Millions of redundancies (including me, twice). I look back with particular fondness at the way they used to make tax cuts just before an election.
Of course, the current lot are ten times worse, but I don't think that's an excuse for rose-tinted glasses.
If you think that was bad, think what sort of state we'd be in now if Labour had won in 1979! A democratic version of East Germany, probably.
Partywhip. It's strange. You have the same effect on me.
Guido, I am a little concerned on reading this, that after Mr Dale's foray into the MSM Dead Wood Society, you may angling for being headhunted to those esteemed leader writers 'The Sun Says'...
Please assure us that you are not about to take the Queen's Shilling..
I'm pretty sure I'll just use to look up her skirt, Guido, and say, "thank fuck I never went there".
The only better use of the bronze I could think of would be Blair's face cast into 50,000 urinal drain gratings.
Then Blair could proudly say "2 million men piss on my face every day".
Oh how jealous the Lib Dems would be...
Soon we'll all be looking down on her - as she desends into the pits of hell for destroying the UK.
Who should we thank for today's lack of society? The Wicked Witch herself. The screwed up children today are the sons and daughters of that "me" generation that cursed the 80's.
'mrs thatcher in bronze'
anagrams to
'Mirth or brazen stench.'
'thatcher in bronze'
anagrams to
'Not brazen the rich.'
'maggie statue in parliament'
anagrams to
'Mutilate man-eating pig's ear.'
'maggie commons statue'
anagrams to
'Comatose, mangiest mug.'
'margaret thatcher commons statue'
anagrams to
'Grummest, ornate stomach ache tart.'
What an insult, a bronze statue.
The Lady changed the busted liberal consensus which was leading us to hell in a handcart back in 1979.
Should be in gold.
I'm sure when I started reading this blog, it was a bit more neutral, or at least fair in slagging off everyone. Recently its become little more than a 'Labour are scum, Maggie/Tories are great' rant-board. Even the BBC are beating you to most of the news stories, and I never thought I'd say that.
*deletes blog link from bookmarks*
Acromac, bagsy you're paying for it, you cunt.
Oh bless, and the commie union leaders who worked so hard during the 70s to break the UK, and very nearly succeeded, weren't about 'me, me, me'?
I was trying to bring up 2 small kids on a very low income during the 70s, as well as fostering a neighbour's kid (for free), and every salary cheque my extremely hard-working husband brought home was slaughtered by every-rising tax - I can remember trying to decide whether to pay the gas bill or to buy a much-needed pair of shoes for the kids. We didn't have holidays (couldn't afford them), didn't know what a new car looked like, could only afford old wrecks that the old man had to have to get to work half-way across London.
Thank God for Maggie.
JH 10.49 - I agree, although I'd question the 'democratic' part.
Oh and Partywhip - well, every little helps, eh?
The left are so detached from the reality from their own rotten failings that became part British culture in the 1960's and have kept on growing. Stop fucking blaming everything on Thatcher you morons. Yeah! the country was great in the '60s and '70s! my fucking arse. The "Me" culture, kicked off properly in the 1960's with the explosion of the mass media and youth culture. Thatcher, like this government, didn't have the authority to stop it spread. However, she believed, very rightly, that it was much better for people be at least productive, in there quest to satisfy their needs. Unlike the left, who think that getting everyone else to pay for it is good! The creation of a bunch of selfish bastards who think that everyone else owes them a living is far worse.
Than people who want to do it for themselves and create wealth rather than take it from others very cheaply. The expansion of the public sector at teh expense of the productive side of the economy is a disgrace. Every Thatcher basher should take a reality check instead of puking out the tired old, anti-Thatcher mantras and lies.
It was commisoned By the late Tony Banks, even a leftie like him held this wonderful woman in high esteem.
Mitch why wait 20 years?
we dont dont need 20 years to know that Blair is a wanker.
waste of money
Pedant, thank god for that.
Surely it should be in brass rather than bronze?
Statue of Thatcher - Great - Didn't make as big a mess of this country as Blair has!! All those people who have complained should should try thinking now and again!
Goddammit, Guido, stop being such a tease! I got all excited. Now I have to try to put the cork back on the Champagne and pry these damn dancing shoes off.
A pal of mine, an Italian woman told me once that she'd met Maggie at a Conservative Conference she was attending on behalf of an association of Italian students. being a brilliant student she got picked to meet Maggie and was introduced to her sitting on a couch, under a portrait of Winston Churchill. My pal, not noted for her tact, pointed out to Maggie that Winston Chirchill was a war ciminal for ordering the bombing Dresden in 1945. Then she told me how Maggie simply looked at her with a stare that froze the blood in her veins.
She still lowers her voice a couple of octaves when she recounts the story. Talking about it is helping her get over the trauma which has persisted for eighteen years.
If the statue is inside now then can we presume that the white stains around the base are the uncontrollable emissions of Tony Blair and the Great New Labour Experiment, rather than the pigeon droppings we might expect, were the statue located outside?
Personally I think that the Spitting Image puppet would have been better....
I always find it amusing that these anti-Thatcher speakers, and left-wing idiots, rarely criticise Thatcher with reasoned debate, or arguments against policy. Instead, they just get personal saying things such as, they can't wait for her to die, she is a *&%!@* etc. etc.
It really is quite pathetic and it just proves how immature and insolent such people are. Grow up.
Steven Bainbridge
A View from the Right
http://stevenbainbridge.blogspot.com/
"Monetarism, 10% interest rates"
Sorted out inflation and threw a load of northern Labour voters and strikers out of work. Although admittedly interest rate rises weren't the best way to go about it. Bank reserve requirements would have been a more effective way of checking money supply growth.
"pulling the rug from under our manufacturing industry"
Also known as rationalising what was a crumbling disgrace. And putting more Labour voters and strikers out of work.
"the pound far too high, the Lawson Boom and subsequent bust. Millions of redundancies (including me, twice)."
Lawson put an end to monetarism - I thought you would approve.
"I look back with particular fondness at the way they used to make tax cuts just before an election."
I look back with fondness at how income taxes were slashed and the overall tax burden reduced by the late 80s.
"Of course, the current lot are ten times worse, but I don't think that's an excuse for rose-tinted glasses."
Who will be the first to deface the statue?
Any one gonna run a book?
But of course the overall personal tax burden increased signicantly under Thatcher. On average it was 4 points higher in the 1980s than the 1970s. Peaked at 44.08% in 1984 and was still 43% in 1989. I was only 37.37% in 1979.
http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk:8080/bitstream/1826/636/2/SWP2191.pdf
Just been for a peek - It's standing there in member's lobby with a sheet over it, guarded by a policeman. Does anyone else remember the scene in The Final Cut when Francis Urquhart is watching Thatcher's statue being placed, then unveiled. Ironic that Ian Richardson died the other week.
Seeing Rt. Hon Maggie around town again makes you realise what a pathetic bunch of pygmies "leads" this country now!
But can Dave do any better?
Great - now we can not only stamp the earth down, but melt her down as well
The left's obsession with Thatcher did them no favours. They hated her so much they never figured out why people were voting for her, i.e. not because she was cuddly, but because she had balls.
Also, voting for her was fun, precisely because it reduced the left to impotent rage.
street parties near us when the old girl dies.hope the statue meets the fate of Saddam's.
"But of course the overall personal tax burden increased signicantly under Thatcher. On average it was 4 points higher in the 1980s than the 1970s. Peaked at 44.08% in 1984 and was still 43% in 1989. I was only 37.37% in 1979."
I was aware it increased at first followed by a decrease but I wasn't aware it was still that high by 1989. Nevertheless it was heading in the right direction for Major to (somehow) get it into the 30s.
So when will Tony Bliars be made and erected?
ROFLM fucking AO!!!!!!!!
allan said...
And who pays for this? Me, the British taxpayer. They can fuck off with their statue, melt it and use the bronze for something useful.
Yeah, like manufacturing bullets to shoot cunts like Prescott and Labour fucking acolyte cock suckers, like you, you cunt.
In the '80s I had mixed feelings about Thatcher's actions. I remember the way she tore up the public service pay-agreements, whilst going on about the importance of contracts. I also remember the way the 'privatizations' were no more than public monopoly becoming private monopoly, in the hands of a select few in the city (ask who had the big shareholdings).
Worst, it was her (of all people)who got us deeper and deeper into the quagmire that is the EU.
Now, given that the Cameron is shying away from addressing the EU problem head on, we have the prospect of a split Conservative UKIP vote letting the present set of Nu_sleaze stay in power.
Anomymous 7.07PM
Fucking UKIP! spliting the vote, what a cretin you are. At most, they lost the Tories half a dozen seats in the last election. UKIP are for electoral half-wits, if there's a mood for change, who the fuck is going to vote UKIP? They won't make a bit of difference you sad wanker.
she has been cast in bronze
Is that like what happened to Shirley Eaton in Goldfinger ?
"UKIP are for electoral half-wits, if there's a mood for change, who the fuck is going to vote UKIP?"
Nobody. That's the point. Do what I do and ignore them, they're an irrelevance. Honestly.
Bronze? And another of the faithful suggested it should have been in gold! There is only one metal that statue should have been cast in - good solid British iron, and it should have broken the backs of at least 10 union workers to put it into place.
Tony Blair's one will be a lot easier to make - just use the same stuff as they make biodegradeable supermarket bags out of, nobody will notice his statue has crumbled away after a few weeks anyway.
A truly great Lady.
Now we have Dave.
The Dale blog has now gone soft and Guido (who is not seeking a Tory seat)is the only quality handsfree blog left.
Off subject but does anyone know why Boles is really getting out?
Is he about to get a Sith type letter?
Go on, I'm enjoying this.
this will mean very little to most readers but...
about 25 years ago, I met Margaret Thatcher at a "do" of her local Conservative Party in Finchley.
Despite the fact that I come from about 200 miles north-west of her constituency, on that occasion, she made me feel like the most important person in the room.
She was inspiring, inpirational and came across as someone who genuinely could listen to ordinary voters.
I do feel privileged to have met her.
I hope the tax payer did not stump up a quid for this.
I also resent not being given the oppertunity to contribute personally. Or maybe I missed something.
Why should people who hated her have to pay for her statue?
If the lovers of Thatcher had raised the money they could have erected it alongside Nelson.
Instead of alongside this current disreptable bunch of power grasping backstabbers, in the commons.
I saw the news pictures, and I'm not impressed. The stature looks rather crude to me, and doesn't capture the essential beauty of the subject at all.
Perhaps it would have looked better in gold.
Well at least no-one can commission a statue of the DPM, Deputy Dawg, since obtaining that amount of blubber would surely contravene anti-whaling laws and if it were possible, 'elf 'n safety couldn't allow such a wobbly object to be erected.....
Shotgun, you pay for it then you brainless twat.
Am I right that public money was used to pay for this? If so it's an obscene use of public funds (not quite on the same scale as paying Prescot to do hee haw, but none the less just as obscene)!
Of all those Socialists moaning about having to "stump up" - fine, if you want the choice on this occasion, how about giving everyone the choice on all the other funding decisions, the BILLIONS wasted by this "we know better" government and all the other sociofascist/"liberal dumboldtwat" governments before them, eh?
Thought not.
Government's role is so that "the citizens may go safely about their lawful business without let or hiderance", not "demand you pay up so you can fund the unemployed to breed".
Shouldn't somebody be making a statue of Admiral Horthy?
Ha ha ha.
She still makes Left Wing blood boil after all these years. Bless her.
I expect it will be beheaded like the one at Tussauds.
Okay Roger, just don't complain when the tossers erect a solid gold statue of Blair in a few years...
"if there's a mood for change" there's also no point voting Tory, Geezer. Cameron vs Brown/Blair... meet the new boss, same as the old boss, only slightly more left wing.
Well, I'm emigrating. I imagine politics in Australia will only be more disastrous. But the weather is better.
Anyone with any sense of political history will know that Mrs Thatcher rescued Britain from politically inspired strikes (The miners) and incompetent nationalised industries (anyone remember British Leylandii?)
Of course she lost the plot in the end - absolute power in a British PM's hands corrupts - see Tony Blair...
BUT history will say her legacy is one of economic achievement and the rolling back of union power and bringing a sense of economic interdependence to the UK..(remember Red Robbo?)
Undoubtedly the nation's greatest peace time PM for the 20th century.
But as I said before, she lost the plot.. and times change...
(as David Cameron has recognised and many of the diehard Conservative nutters have not).
I contrast her - she changed her own party.. and made many of the Conservative shibboleths obsolete - with Tony Blair whose legacy is a failed war and a party whose main wish seems to go back to centralised power - shades of 1945-50...
I never liked her but I admired her. Still do.
A statue is deserved.
Tony Blair deserves trial for treason and other lesser offences. I live in hope...
The only post-war PM to actually put the ordinary people of Britain first, rather than the toadying self-serving minority who were making the best of the UK's steady slide. What character and honesty.
More balls than all the other post-war PMs put together, except WC of course.
Who can imagine the strength of mind and strength of purpose required to battle all the Tory Wets in their suits as well as the unions (at least their was little opposition)? Not to mention being of the opposite sex.
The historians will see the true strengths of her leadership, it's just sad that she has been so vilified by those who have benefitted most over the last 17 years.
What a shame she so mis-judged the greed of the individual, and had to battle almost single-handed against the unions. I feel that the effect altered her previously keen judgement.
How sad that the current power-hungry management have copied her policies so completely, just because they were so successful in the 1980s. Now that the country has pulled itself out of the horrors of the 70s, perhaps a slightly different approach might benefit us all?
russellg
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