Margaret thatcher died

[Truthmatters]

Britain got hit by two major recessions under Thatcher, which sandwiched the boom of the 1980s but even that boom never saw GDP grow by more than a couple of percent. Obviously in 2012, George Osborne would kill for growth of 2.2%.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jan/06/iron-lady-margaret-thatcher-data

 

[Truthmatters]

Poverty went up under Thatcher, according to these figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In 1979, 13.4% of the population lived below 60% of median incomes before housing costs. By 1990, it had gone up to 22.2%, or 12.2m people, with huge rises in the mid-1980s.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jan/06/iron-lady-margaret-thatcher-data

 

[bodecea]

Thatcher was a great leader and one tough woman........sad to hear

and she was a conservative to the core .

Wasn't it the Conservatives who eventually turned on her?

 

[Truthmatters]

One of the defining features of the 1980s was the rise of the house price economy, especially with the sales of council houses.




At the same time, interest rates rose to record levels of 17% and repossessions rose to match.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jan/06/iron-lady-margaret-thatcher-data

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Poverty went up under Thatcher, according to these figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In 1979, 13.4% of the population lived below 60% of median incomes before housing costs. By 1990, it had gone up to 22.2%, or 12.2m people, with huge rises in the mid-1980s.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/data...ared to how O is destroying the US right now.

 

[Indofred]

I wonder how many people were actually in Yorkshire at the time of the miners' strike.
I lived about a mile from where it all started, a worked out mine that simply didn't have any coal left in it but the ultra left unions wouldn't allow it to close.
Their goal was to smash the freely elected government of the day in the hope of getting one of their communist bastards into power.
The NUM leader, a wig wearing bastard called Scargill, was out for a fight but was far too stupid to battle Maggie.
Scargill's attempt at a socialist revolution was the reason the mines ended up closed down, not Maggie's determination to sort of the massive waste in that and other industries.
If the union idiots hadn't tried for power, things would have been far better for everyone.

Blame the idiot, Scargill and his daft commie mates, not the iron lady who saved Britain from that bunch of cretins.

Rest in peace, Maggie and I pray you return so we may have another great world leader.

 

[Truthmatters]

Poverty went up under Thatcher, according to these figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In 1979, 13.4% of the population lived below 60% of median incomes before housing costs. By 1990, it had gone up to 22.2%, or 12.2m people, with huge rises in the mid-1980s.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jan/06/iron-lady-margaret-thatcher-data



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With it came a huge rise in inequality. This shows the gini coefficient, which is the most common method of measuring inequality. Under gini, a score of one would be a completely unequal society; zero would be completely equal. Britain's gini score went up from 0.253 to 0.339 by the time Thatcher resigned.

 

[hjmick]

Jesus Christ TM, we get it! You hated Thatcher, quit fucking spamming the thread.

 

[Meathead]

she raised taxes on the average joe and cut taxes for the wealthy.


there will be celebrations all over briton and alot of playing of the song "ding dong the witch Is dead".


Its her legacy

You're spitting in the wind.

 

[Uncensored2008]

She will be missed. She changed the world for the better in so many ways. She broke the stereotype of what a woman in politics must be.

 

[Sallow]

She will be missed.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Jesus Christ TM, we get it! You hated Thatcher, quit fucking spamming the thread.

She is filled with bitterness and hate. They make the world a worse place.

 

[boedicca]

she increased child poverty in the UK.

people dont like that

Go Away.

 

[Truthmatters]

hahahahahahahahah


the truth hurts your boodey

 

[boedicca]

There is a very useful, yet underutilized practice, in civil society: shunning.

I believe it applied very well to the person who is trying to trash this thread.

 

[Truthmatters]

Telling the FACTS has nothing to do with hate you silly gits

 

[Truthmatters]

when Clinton dies what will you people be doing?

 

[boedicca]

Margaret Thatcher was one of the most influential people of the 20th century...and made a significant contribution to liberty around the world by helping the west win the Cold War.

Thank you, Margaret. May you rest in peace.

 

[Truthmatters]

I wish that you would be telling the facts.

Unfortunately we all know you will be retreading the lies you told about him for decades

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

This will be a red letter day on the calendars of the loony Left, just like the days of Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II were.

I have some liberal friends - I'll see if they're throwing a "M Thatcher Died Party." Just because right wingers might want Obama dead (which makes about as much sense as left wingers happy about MT dying), shall we throw all under the bus? '

I didn't meet her but saw her in person once. I always admired her.

Well for what it's worth, Obama is in power NOW, so it makes more sense to want him dead.