Comments on Guy Fawkes' blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: Iron Lady No More

The only post-war PM to actually put the ordinary ...

2007-02-27T22:26:00.000Z

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

Anyone with any sense of political history will kn...

2007-02-22T20:09:00.000Z

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...

Well, I'm emigrating. I imagine politics in Austra...

2007-02-22T18:39:00.000Z

Well, I'm emigrating. I imagine politics in Australia will only be more disastrous. But the weather is better.

"if there's a mood for change" there's also no poi...

2007-02-22T11:25:00.000Z

"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.

Okay Roger, just don't complain when the tossers e...

2007-02-22T11:21:00.000Z

Okay Roger, just don't complain when the tossers erect a solid gold statue of Blair in a few years...

I expect it will be beheaded like the one at Tussa...

2007-02-22T10:36:00.000Z

I expect it will be beheaded like the one at Tussauds.

Ha ha ha.She still makes Left Wing blood boil afte...

2007-02-22T09:47:00.000Z

Ha ha ha.

She still makes Left Wing blood boil after all these years. Bless her.

Shouldn't somebody be making a statue of Admiral H...

2007-02-22T09:44:00.000Z

Shouldn't somebody be making a statue of Admiral Horthy?

Of all those Socialists moaning about having to "s...

2007-02-22T09:41:00.000Z

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".

Am I right that public money was used to pay for t...

2007-02-22T09:28:00.000Z

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)!

Shotgun, you pay for it then you brainless twat.

2007-02-22T09:09:00.000Z

Shotgun, you pay for it then you brainless twat.

Well at least no-one can commission a statue of th...

2007-02-22T07:36:00.000Z

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.....

I saw the news pictures, and I'm not impressed. Th...

2007-02-22T01:27:00.000Z

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.

I hope the tax payer did not stump up a quid for t...

2007-02-21T23:52:00.000Z

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.

this will mean very little to most readers but...a...

2007-02-21T23:37:00.000Z

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.

Go on, I'm enjoying this.

2007-02-21T22:40:00.000Z

Go on, I'm enjoying this.

Off subject but does anyone know why Boles is real...

2007-02-21T22:37:00.000Z

Off subject but does anyone know why Boles is really getting out?
Is he about to get a Sith type letter?

The Dale blog has now gone soft and Guido (who is ...

2007-02-21T22:31:00.000Z

The Dale blog has now gone soft and Guido (who is not seeking a Tory seat)is the only quality handsfree blog left.

A truly great Lady.Now we have Dave.

2007-02-21T22:28:00.000Z

A truly great Lady.
Now we have Dave.

Bronze? And another of the faithful suggested it s...

2007-02-21T21:30:00.000Z

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.

"UKIP are for electoral half-wits, if there's a mo...

2007-02-21T21:16:00.000Z

"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.

she has been cast in bronzeIs that like what happe...

2007-02-21T20:13:00.000Z

she has been cast in bronze

Is that like what happened to Shirley Eaton in Goldfinger ?

Anomymous 7.07PMFucking UKIP! spliting the vote, w...

2007-02-21T19:33:00.000Z

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.

In the '80s I had mixed feelings about Thatcher's ...

2007-02-21T19:07:00.000Z

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.

allan said... And who pays for this? Me, the B...

2007-02-21T18:33:00.000Z

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.