That is so unfair - to dogs!

screw the revisionist history books about Thatcher,I bloody lived through it Matt and let me tell you she was no saviour..she divided the country like never before.
Her policies still hurt the country,and now after her death we slowly unravel the truth about the woman.

LOL This thread is desperation central.........Although I have no doubts that if the old witch was still alive she would be delighted that some people have such bad eyesight that they think she was as beautiful as Ashleigh

Oh damn, I wanted this to be an anti-Ashliegh thread but now I see its a pro Maggie thread and I could not stand that awful patronizing, divisive, self serving, .....(Bunny self explodes as thought of the evils of the Thatcher era rebound inside his skull).

......but just watch the eviction footage inside the house again and you WILL see what I mean.

Well Mrs T's bum never moved like Ashleighs did in that outfit loved watching her walk over to the bottom of the stairs Great outfit to show of the butt in full flowt!

No t was a very nice grown up off the face look. I liked it. She looked nothing like Margaret Thatcher who did not have waist length hair.

A pathetic attempt to malign Ashleigh.

This is Ashleigh and Chris during the final:

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Ka...%20The)_03.jpg

But I still know what happened?
She encouraged the country to actually work like no other prime minister

I thought she looked lovely. She's just right for a shorts-suit like that and, in my opinion, her hair was beautiful.

Not sure how you get that given how many people were unemployed during her time in power.

hahahaha...

She def has the cold eyes and disdain for 'the lesser' person look that Thatcher rocked so well. I think you're onto something, although admittedly I don't like Ashleigh and I hate Thatcher.

Rosie, I'm sitting here roaring laughing...Maggie Bl**dy T & stunning Ashleigh Coyle...Jebus Wept

Surreal in the extreme, Noel Fielding might do something with this,

And do you realize how many empty council flats there were during her time as well? It was people that didn't work hard enough to live in them

To be fair the OP didn't phrase it in a negative way and it's common to compare HM's looks to well known public figures. I've seen a few posts commenting that Winston looks like Maggie's BFF Ronald Reagan. He's as equally divisive when it comes to politics.

What a load of nonsense matt,real nonsense.
Maybe this graph will help.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22070491

Look at the unemployment graph.
In 79 under Lab unemployment was about 1.5million and the tories put a poster out saying labour isint working.
By 1984 Thatcher not only had risen unemployment to 3.2m ( a rise of almost 2 million out of work ) but she also brought in incapacity benefit which meant anyone off sick for more than 6 weeks automatically went onto a disability benefit.
This was a way to fiddle unemployment figures as those on incapacity no longer would be counted as unemployed.
She also brought out 12 week training courses that never trained you or give you a job at the end,it was just cheap labour being paid £23.50 per week for 40 hours work.
This also brought down the real unemployment figure which at the time was speculated to be between 6-7 million out of work.

This is why you had bands like UB40 come about and they made a song called 1 in 10 which was about how Thatcherism made 1 in every 10 unemployed ( it was 1 in 5 in Northern Ireland).

She closed down factories and mines.
She wanted to take on the unions so she created the situation for the miners strike which cost thousands their jobs and destroyed communities.

Thatcher destroyed apprenticeships and replaced them with WEPS ( work experience programmes which never gave a skill to anyone,it was just cheap labour )

Those are the facts.
As much as Blair bugs me he did help unemployment come down but the record goes to Atlee who rarely had unemployment up beyond 2%.



If you study that graph you will see how when Thatcher left unemployment starts dropping

Plueeze, comparing Ashleigh Coyle to Maggie T is all sorts of ridiculous and that is me being very understanding of every posters right to their opinion...it's just too bizzare

Moreover, the OP goes on to comment on personality traits, not just looks. Maggie T was such a divisive figure, it seems a tad disingenuous to suggest it is only looks they are commenting on Come on.......

Perhaps. However in all sincerity as much as I'm against everything Maggie and Ronnie stood for politically I still think Maggie was a very attractive woman in her younger years and is a fascinating historical figure. You can still not like someone and disagree with them but acknowledge their attributes. That's just how I chose to read the OP I think it's reasonable to state Ashleigh is a divisive figure in and out of the house.

Scout, you're a lovely woman. Perhaps the subject matter(MT) was too personal to me to be objective. xx

p.s. Ahahah, just realised you really don't like Ashleigh..do you

Wrong again Matt.
Councils were having their budgets slashed like never before,similar to what Camerons doing today.
Councils could not afford to do council flats up and in part this was Thatchers strategy because she did not believe in council housing.
She wanted everyone to buy their homes and so brought out the right to buy your council house,this meant there was a shortage of social housing because Thatcher would not allow councils to build more council homes.
Thats why in my city millitant became popular as it decided to create an illegal budget and build new council homes regardless of what Thatcher said.

Wasnt last night the first Friday night she had dumped the dressing gown

Maggie f***ing Thatcher????

I KNOW, all shades of ridiculous...my friends and I have actually done a "Winston"...
laughed hysterically at the stupidity of it.

OMG and when she does.....bloody WOW. She's gorgeous.

But by cutting all this, she was pushing people harder, making people work to get a job

At the moment people are being encouraged to breed and breed and breed and get welfare from it. By doing all this, Thatcher discouraged that. When you have so little to work with, you have to be sensible, and I think it was a good strategy.

She was a lady.