Margaret Thatcher Dies at 87

[Chippiewill]

iTunes is in good taste for the UK: http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10songs.html

[azzaman1234]

I find it funny how nobody or very little people voiced their true opinions/hate on her until she was dead? Just like with Jimmy Saville nothing was mentioned about him being a pedophile until after he was dead.

I don't know anything about the woman if I'm honest lol, I'm not one to study into history... It's not my thing but hey. RIP.

[Ardemax]

iTunes is in good taste for the UK: http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10songs.html

Although it probably shouldn't, that did make me smile slightly seeing that there.

I find it funny how nobody or very little people voiced their true opinions/hate on her until she was dead? Just like with Jimmy Saville nothing was mentioned about him being a pedophile until after he was dead.

I don't know anything about the woman if I'm honest lol, I'm not one to study into history... It's not my thing but hey. RIP.

Very little people voiced their hate about Margaret Thatcher when she was alive? Are you serious?!?!

Regarding Jimmy Saville, a lot of the information was hidden from the public eye by people not affected, rather than the actual people who knew what he did. But I see your point. It's a lot easier to throw stones at people when they can't throw them back.

[azzaman1234]

Although it probably shouldn't, that did make me smile slightly seeing that there.



Very little people voiced their hate about Margaret Thatcher when she was alive? Are you serious?!?!

Regarding Jimmy Saville, a lot of the information was hidden from the public eye by people not affected, rather than the actual people who knew what he did. But I see your point. It's a lot easier to throw stones at people when they can't throw them back.

Yeah what I mean is that very few in comparison to now she is dead. People who don't even understand what she was doing/wanted to do are now hating her because they are "following the crowd" as such.

[Southe,]

So apparently theres another group trying to get the song "We love Margaret Thatcher" number 1 and there #10 in itunes.

BBC saying they will only play 5 seconds of Ding dong if it gets number 1. Disgrace if this pro thatcher song gets number 1 are they going to give that 5 seconds as well? you know to the majority of people that hate her and will be offended.

[LiquidLuck.]

Wow we talked about her in our History class today and none knew she had died.. RIP.

[GommeInc]

So apparently theres another group trying to get the song "We love Margaret Thatcher" number 1 and there #10 in itunes.

BBC saying they will only play 5 seconds of Ding dong if it gets number 1. Disgrace if this pro thatcher song gets number 1 are they going to give that 5 seconds as well? you know to the majority of people that hate her and will be offended.

Presumably a Pro-Thatcher song wouldn't be littered with disrespectful and ill-mannered undertones. Being grateful that someone is dead is poor taste regardless of who that person is

[AgnesIO]

Yeah what I mean is that very few in comparison to now she is dead. People who don't even understand what she was doing/wanted to do are now hating her because they are "following the crowd" as such.

It is because whilst someone is not in the news, they won't be on the publics mind.

Jimmy Saville is a different case, as barely anyone really knew of him as a paedophile before it all came out.

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Presumably a Pro-Thatcher song wouldn't be littered with disrespectful and ill-mannered undertones. Being grateful that someone is dead is poor taste regardless of who that person is

I think it would be wrong to play the whole of one and not of the other.

Just my thoughts though.

[Grig]

This is foolish and sheer idioticy. A few people made out her to be much worse than any other politician in the country. Well, you are wrong. She like any politicians have made mistakes. I would like you to name politicians who have squeaky clean record and you will be hard pressed to find any. If she was that bad, she would not have completely transformed the country's economy, which was lagging behind. Yes, she could have and should have done more to support those who lost their jobs when industry closed in Britain and she was wrong with a few of her taxes, as well as supporting a rogue dictator in Argentina, whilst tarnishing Mandela. However, the good does outweigh the evil and it is sheer stupidity on the amount of people who come here, have very little knowledge of her policies and say how much she was of a "witch".

Also, I am disgusted at the UK's education system. If people did not know she was still alive and thought she died in the 80's, then I am very worried of how your future is going to pan out (no offence). You should at the very least know some of the history of your own country, particularly this period, which I would say was as crucial as the industrial revolution.

I am not taking sides, although I do think she changed the UK for the better. Think about it, you could have been sitting there bailing out EU-member countries right now and the economy would have been far worse. Not only that, but despite people loosing jobs, they actually had social mobility with the opportunity to buy a house etc.

Here are 2 sides of the story, you can decide whichever one you are on (but with good reasoning, all this she was a witch talk makes people look quite silly):

For:



Against:

[Chippiewill]

Also, I am disgusted at the UK's education system. If people did not know she was still alive and thought she died in the 80's, then I am very worried of how your future is going to pan out (no offence). You should at the very least know some of the history of your own country, particularly this period, which I would say was as crucial as the industrial revolution.

No school is going to cover the last 30 years in a history class (Mostly due to the lack of a consensus on what happened), and certainly no school is going to cover politics outside of a politics lesson. I really see no need for people to memorise which past prime ministers are and are not alive.

Perhaps if they didn't know who the current prime minister it might be an issue..