Thatcher the Movie

[Gromit]

The Milk Snatcher is about to get a film made about her.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/64697 83.stm

Would ABers like to suggest a title and plot. I hear that Jo Brand is hotly tipped for the eponymous role.

[sp1814]

Should read:

"because they would never vote Tory anyway"

[flip-flop]

But it was costing more to mine a ton of coal than it could be sold for, largely brought about be the greed of the NUM in general and Scargill in particular.

She outlawed sympathy strikes.

She allowed people who never had a chance to become property owners the right to buy their council houses.

I could go on all day, but it will be of little effect because she is like Marmite: Personally, I think she was great, but then I am typical tory - I do believe it is an individuals responsibility to look after themselves and be as successful as they possibly can and not to rely on the state to feed and clothe them, I do believe in low taxation, I don't believe in a nanny state, I don't belive in tax and spend tax and spend (has never worked and will never work).

Margaret Thatcher rescued this country and her legacy handed New Labour a solid base from which they could screw-up (99 tax increases since Brown has been the Chancellor!!! 99 fer gawds sake).

I'm fairly selfish - I want taxes to be as low as possible so that I can provide my family with as comfortable life as possible, and if that means that Mr Can't Be Arsed To Work goes without his Plasma screen, then sod him - he can starve for all I care.

The Poll Tax was a fairer system of local taxation too!

[Loosehead]

Surely it should be Kylie SP ??

[Pippa68]

flip-flop ~ you marvel :o)

[NJOK]

Ah, the old Thatcher debate.

There's something about the British psyche. For some reason, we don't want our leaders to be one of us. We don't want to see that they care or are representative of the people. We want them to tell us what to do, like it or lump it. We want them to be our masters.

Maybe it comes from having a monarchy for so long. But it's certainly true that a huge proportion of British people hold Thatcher in high regard despite her being a PM who, rightly or wrongly, genuinely, consistently didn't give a sh*t about the majority of people in the country.

[sp1814]

Loosehead

No, in the film of Margaret Thatcher's life, my good lady Madonna will play the title role.

Kylie will play Dame Shirley Porter and Dollar will take the roles of Ronald and Nandy Reagan.

I see Rick Astley playing Norman Tebbit, with none other than Mick Hucknall as Neil Kinnock.

Now c'mon - with a cast list like that, you would want to see that film.

Good Lord...I'm salivating as I write this.

[Zen]

Can I put forward Jo Brand

http://www.assemblyrooms.com/programme2003/_im ages/shows/MENTA.jpg

to play the part of John sargeant the forme BBC Political editor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/images/2 005/04/12/john_sargeant_150_150x180.jpg

[sp1814]

Zen

The links didn't work from my PC at work, but I know what Mr Sargeant looks like and you are a very evil person...

...but you're completely correct. They could be brother and sister.