Thanks to David who sent me this picture, last week, of the flag at half mast on the County Hall in Abingdon. He said “I assume in honour of Mrs. T.”
A week later, the flag was at half mast again.
The funeral was today.
Thanks to David who sent me this picture, last week, of the flag at half mast on the County Hall in Abingdon. He said “I assume in honour of Mrs. T.”
A week later, the flag was at half mast again.
The funeral was today.
pukes
Shame on you dkr87
indeed.
Order!
Irrespective of your political views Mrs Thatcher was not only our first & only female Prime Minister, but she was also elected by the people of Britain 3 times. I am not a dedicated supporter to one party of another, I will look at the manifesto’s of all the parties & will vote on policies especially at a local level.
My question is though, if our Town Council was controlled by the Lib Dems, would the flag have been flying at half mast?
Rest In Peace, Lady Thatcher
When I saw the coverage I was made only too aware of the North South divide. Boarded up houses and businesses in the North. Once thriving U K industries destroyed. We seem to be the only country that is not patriotic and supports its own country and industry.
It’s dangerous to lump the north into a homogenous category. My family are from Harrogate in Yorkshire which is nothing like the picture you describe and has much in common with our town. Similarly if you’ve been up to Salford media city recently you’ll see a thriving environment nurturing new technology and creative industries.
You have to ask, what would the situation have become had Mrs. T. not come along then. The consensus clearly is “somewhat worse”. Right or wrong in the detail, she exercised robust Leadership – a novel concept to many.
As a Falklands Veteran, my views on Operation Corporate are well documented elsewhere.
I would normally avoid pejorative comment but suspect that those whose vocabulary is limited to expletives were not around when Rule of Law was brazenly challenged, Purchase Tax was 25% and rubbish filled the streets for months.
…not to mention the three day week, the IMF being called in to give us a ‘Greek-style’ bailout and daily powercuts
I am out in the working world and meet lots of ordinary working people. The common consensus is that our country is f****d. ‘Oh dear don’t use that sort of language myself but just repeating what has been said’. We have millions of immigrants taking all the jobs and social housing. We are not allowed to be proud of British products. We cannot celebrate our festivals such as Christmas. Even in Abingdon we have winter lights instead of Christmas lights. Can you imagine any other country giving up their festivals. No one is proud of our country and being British any more.
miners strike, clause 28, the poll tax, the falklands, apartheid, gerrymandering, pinochet, privatisation, city deregulation, nhs cuts, hillsborough cover up, wapping, ‘no such thing as society’, ‘on ya bike’, the ERM, the anglo-irish agreement, westland, hong kong, boom and bust…..yeah i’m the one who should feel ashamed.
rot in hell thatcher…the ‘broken’ britain we see today is a direct result of her policies.
some people seem to live in a kind of fantasy world where if mrs thatcher hadn’t come along, we’d currently have 50 world beating ship builders, factories with more vacancies than they can fill and 1000 coal mines per town.
fact is she simply did what all the others had been putting off for a long time – eventually someone would have had to do it.
Completely agree Rudi. The thing I can’t understand is why the miners weren’t angry at their union rather than mrs thatcher. If they hadn’t embarked on a lengthy national strike the pits would have shut gradually – you wouldn’t have had thousands of people hitting the job market in parallel, communities which were impacted would have felt a more gradual impact and had a chance to adjust.
Everything DKR87 is regurgitating onto this blog is some made-up, Socialist lie probably written in the Daily Mirror.
It is St Georges Day on Monday 23rd April. Oops, we are not allowed to mention St Georges Day, fly the British flag and be proud of Britain and it’s products. We don’t have much manufacturing left to be proud of.
St. George is connected with England and not Britain, Janet. There is a British flag flying in the photo. If you wish to feel proud, over to you.
It doesn’t all revolve around manufacturing Janet. Stop being a miserable sow.
saints are an invention of the catholic church are they not? – and given that britain changed from being catholic why would it be celebrated in a big way?
65% at least of the population never ever voted for Margaret Thatcher
She won 3 consecutive elections. People did vote her into power.
I am English not British
sir cyril…i am very far from a socialist…lol
and she won elections by taking us to war….and then by gerrymandering.
blair > thatcher.
A MINORITY of people voted for Thatcher – she got around 40% of those who voted, and around 35% of the people of this country never vote so they certainly didn’t vote for Thatcher.
Out of the whole population only around 30% ever voted for the Conservatives and there are plenty of Conservatives who didn’t like Thatcher (incuding former Prime Ministers Ted Heath and Harold Macmillan) – and it was the Tories that finally booted her out when she started becoming too loony even for them (she was after all never ‘one of them’ – far too common) – so Thatcher was far from being as popular as people (particularly the Tory party) now seem to want to make out – she was saved by the Falklands war, as otherwise she would have lost the 1983 election – she also brought in the reforms that led directly to the current economic crisis when taxpayers (i.e. you and me) had to pay the bankers their bonuses for the excellent job they had done and bail them out after they had caused the mess thanks to Thatcher’s largesse – (the problem with Capitalism is that the rich eventually run out of other people’s money) – all in all she was a total liability who was only ever supported by around 20% of the popuilation.
Father,My mother used to say years ago, “wait until the morinng, you will feel better then”I ignored her good advice then and am obviously still ignoring it now. Can I offer my sincere apologies for the intemperate and insulting comments I made on this blog. You are, of course, quite right and democratic in allowing comment here, provewd by the fact that you published mine.My “excuse” is that I was incensed at in particular 4 comments, which I felt were hurtful and insulting to Lady Thatcher, and by extension to all who look on her as one of the great and inspiring leaders of our country. I had the privilege as standing as a Conservative candidate in the three elections won by the lady, and was proud to support her, and I still am.I found no conflict whatever in reconciling my Catholic faith with any of her policies.According to reports, before meeting the Pope, she laid a wreath on the tomb of Pope John Paul 11, and prayed.Father, Lady T. is greatly admired, and indeed loved by many of us, and I make no apology for the admiration I have for her.Please accept my apologies to you personally, I should have delayed replying to the blog comments. I have appreciated your blog for some time now, so can I withdraw my threat to not read it again?God bless you, Father.