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Never seen such a mixed reaction to a death before.
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Excluding of course those where the deceased was a criminal. It's astounding, usually all bad points are sidelined and all good are brought to the forefront but Thatcher's death seems to have - genuinely - got a mixed reaction.
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Absolute rubbish.
Well, she was quite old.
That's just what I thought. It's my opinion. You are of course entitled to your opinion just like anyone else.
Shows how much hatred exists in UK :cool:
What I do find a bit galling is that many of her DS supporters, in the various threads saying things like "it doesn't matter what she did in her life, even the bad things, she is dead now show respect" are the very same people who populate other threads gloating about the deaths of people in prisons and other criminals. Some of them are the same people who were, even just a couple of months ago, calling for the death penalty for the Bulger Killers too.
It's all a bit weird.
No. You're absolutely wrong in your statement.
I always felt ambivilent towards her, neither liked nor disliked her. I was not affected by her tenure in office in any way. I never voted for her nor supported her.
So...that's one person who goes against your rather flimsy perception of 'you either love or hate her', so there's your argument trashed.
I'm certainly not going to hate her because people tell me I should hate her.
And that has never made any sense to me, how you can hate and despise someone you don't even know. You only think you know, you know what you read, you know what you hear from others, and from that you form an opinion.
And that's all it is...a view, an opinion. And frankly there is a lot of bandwaggoning on here, plenty going along with the popular view of her as 'evil'. Comparing her to the worst despots and tyrants of history.
It's pathetic in the extreme.
Calm down! Jesus wept! :rolleyes: What's pathetic is someone having a big rant because they don't agree with someone's opinion. For someone who doesn't care you're very angry!
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Beg your pardon? Angry?
I think you need to go back and read my post again.
Yes..
Who, since we didn't vote for or live under their tenure, or know, and we only read about them, we only think they were nasty, but really ambivalence is probably the more logical reaction.
No, I know what she did to the Scottish people. I had to pay that hated poll tax when she used Scotland as a guinea pig.
And I'm sorry but I thought everyone was entitled to an opinion.
And I don't appreciate being called pathetic.
Anyway I'm finished, I'm outta here. You guys enjoy your forum.
If people don't want to pay respects that's fine they don't have to, and I'm all for debating, discussing and dissecting the actions of public figures but people going around singing Ding dong the witch is dead (and allegedly downloading on iTunes)... Yea she's dead. And? What actually has changed now in 2013 because she's dead?
Very interesting times. I was angry a lot at the time, but not always, and now, well....she was monstrous but important, she was a very important figure.
I'm not surprised at the reactions though, it's been like that for, well over thirty years.
Whatever she did to the country didn't really affect my family at the time.
TBH, I'm too busy trying to survive this government to get to waste my time worrying about one I know little about.
The community charge was implemented in Scotland first because it was Scotland which had been calling out for reform of the then rates system adopted under an earlier government. It was not to treat Scotland as a guinea pig, but rather to rectify a problem which had hurt Scotland the most.
The community charge was actually a fair tax - it was unpopular and repealed because local authorities had set the bills too high. The local authorities which set their bills too high were Labour authorities.
I am pretty anti-thatchy but the one thing this does demonstrate is how unique she was (that can be followed with a sigh or relief or sigh of resignation, depending on your individual stance)
Tell that to the families of the 96!!! :mad: