The Very Mention Of Thatchers Name.

[gulliver1]

Kemi Badenoch gives a keynote speech at the CPS talking about "remaking conservatism" When she said "Today we honour Margaret Thatcher" Which led to heckling by protesters to remind us that  Thatcher is still not very well liked even to this day.

[Old_Geezer]

Makes a decent cider though.

[jackthehat]

I'm not sure that we need to be reminded that ///Thatcher is still not very well liked even to this day./// it's been pretty obvious ever since she entered politics.

Doesn't mean it's correct, though.

[davebro3]

you left a bit off the end gully - "by some idiots."

[ToraToraTora]

Well you quote her about 10 times a week:

anyway remember this?

Fred Forsyth – Daily Express – 23/02/2007

In all the publicity surrounding the thoroughly merited unveiling of the statue of Margaret Thatcher in the Members’ Lobby of the commons, it is easy to overlook the 17 years of her systematic demonisation by the sniggering classes.

The point is that you have to be of a certain maturity to recall the sheer awfulness of the last years of the seventies. Not just the winter of discontent, 1978/79 but the whole tottering edifice of our country reduced to a near-bankrupt “sick man of Europe”. We were heading, literally, for national ruin.

Every politician, civil servant, banker, industrialist and merchant was convinced that the rot could not even be stopped let alone turned around. But Mrs Thatcher did it and with not much help from the defeatists around her. Most of them believed Britain was finished.

But she took them all on and beat almost all of them. Galtieri in the south, Scargill in the North, the union tyrants at the strike polls, the wimps wherever she met them. They, reduced to their natural pygmy status hated her for it – and still do.

But, whatever they say, she did what had to be done. In her own words “There was no alternative”.

 

What has always riled me is that the self-serving coterie that destroyed her were not even up to her kneecaps. Such a pity that David Cameron has restored half a dozen of them to his innermost circle of advisers.

 

Twenty years from now she will still be staring in bronze across the members’ lobby. But you will have to scour the archives to find out who those who brought her down ever were.

 

[Peter Pedant]

I thought of that when it came up a year or so ago

X lardy dah Y - and  TTT ( bless) strongly objected to Thatcher as (X) . TTT screamed and threw his toys  out of the pram because Y was someone he didnt like

and I felt the same violent impulses ( heavens, so un mimsy will my post lst longer than  5 mins)

when X was Princess Kate and Y was...... meghans bottom or something

( OK - Sussex   and Mountbatten Windsor - my name is susses oops i isnt actually)

[Peter Pedant]

Galtieri in the south, Scargill in the North, the union tyrants at the strike polls, the wimps wherever she met them. 

o god recycled text- we get this a  lot on AB - 

Thatcher did Reaganomics which didnt work - anyone remember THAT ?

Her final admin, she filled  full of handsome "yes men" who were political no-hopers and cdnt achieve diddly squat ( poll tax)

and does  anyone remember THAT ?

I think theere is enough un-mimsiness in this post for me to get a run-together suspension.

 

[gulliver1]

Sir Keir Starmer ..got it right, when he removed  Thatcher's portrait from No 10 .Just imagine having her looking at you every time you sat at your desk.It must have been a living nightmare. Well done Keir.

[Khandro]

Maggie was a Diamond Geezer ! 

[barry1010]

Starmer had an inferiority complex, which is why he also removed portraits of Churchill, The Duke of Wellington, Gladstone and Queen Victoria 

[ToraToraTora]

There you go me old china....

[ToraToraTora]

see in the video '....and that's how she turned the UK around after a largely lefty government that she walked in on "

Thanks Gully for initiating this wonderful thread on the genius of TGL.

I believe you are a fan of her protege, Tony Blair.

[ladybirder]

Thanks for the video TTT.  Love her.

[gulliver1]

Was there a painting of Thatcher sipping tea with Jimmy Saville.Also hanging on the wall at No 10 that Keir had removed.?

[gulliver1]

Thatcher called Nelson Mandela a terrorist.

[albaqwerty]

No. Was just the portrait of Mrs. Thatcher.

 

[johnny.5]

.....and that's how she turned the UK around after a largely lefty government that she walked in on

Is someone going to do the same , but the other way around ....walk in on this largely right wing Labour government ?

[gulliver1]

Thatcher who sent British service men to their deaths just so she could win an election ...*Falklands*.

[ynnafymmi]

@11.34.Saville was also honoured by the Pope remember Gully.Prior to being made a Knight of the Roman Catholic Church,instead of sipping tea with the Pope he had to kiss the Popes ring as part of the ritual.An interesting fact.

[gulliver1]

Was there a painting of Thatcher and the dictator Pinochet also hanging in No 10 ?

[Ken4155]

Are you sure Saville didn't get the Pope to kiss his ring?