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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

https://youtu.be/zJaWi60btQA

The old girl has been six feet under for a decade and was last PM some 32 years ago.....and yet.

[redelitev6]

Sadly , still a lot of bitter memories for some people , I used to work with some Northumberland coal miners , they would often voice "full and frank " opinions about Mrs T 

[STEMO]

They had a full blown party, complete with burning effigy, in Grimethorpe when she died.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

She was certainly a marmite character.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I wonder if there will ever be a statue of Blair? 

Where would it be? 

What would happen to it?! 

[dave the builder]

somebody should have hanged her like that by the neck before she became PM 

[omegod]

I recall my swimming instructor asked me a question.
"what's your favourite stroke"

 
Apparently " Thatchers " wasn't the right answer 

[Drewomega]

If any of you guys had/will be bothered to read up on the whole affair on the miners and you will find that it was not MT that closed the most mines! it was a Harold Wilson???. I was in Port Talbot during the worst of it after coming back from South Africa. I will always remember talking to a few union leaders in the hotel I was staying in and meeting one of the many union guys there. One of them said to me quote "do you know what NCB means?" Yes, I said, nope he uttered its "No C*NT BOTHERS" I changed my whole outlook on the miners and unions after that. 

[STEMO]

If any of you guys had/will be bothered to read up on the whole affair on the miners and you will find that it was not MT that closed the most mines! it was a Harold Wilson???. I was in Port Talbot during the worst of it after coming back from South Africa. I will always remember talking to a few union leaders in the hotel I was staying in and meeting one of the many union guys there. One of them said to me quote "do you know what NCB means?" Yes, I said, nope he uttered its "No C*NT BOTHERS" I changed my whole outlook on the miners and unions after that. 

Oh, I think we know enough about such things in South Yorkshire 
I'll have to tell the tens of thousands of ex miners here that some Jock said they got it all wrong. That should make them sit up 

[Varche]

Only in a democracy. You get a vote and then complain about the incumbent you voted in. . It really isnt fair. You could have been given Franco, Putin or Xi!

[Doctor Gollum]

Unions only exist to serve the few that run them. The last people they have any interest in are the paid up members.

Without unions we might still have cheap energy and generations of families not dependant on dole money

[Raeturbo]

There’s a lot of truth in that, IMO.

[Keith ABS]

 Over here in ABS, we had a member whose father was the leader of the NUM before Scargill
He told us that his father warned many that to vote Scargill in as leader when he retired would cause no end of problems
He said that with the agenda Scargill had would signify the end of the union as they knew it and cause the closure of most of the mines
Just repeating what he said in a converstion to us at Billing one year

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Yep, those who still hate her because of what happened to the miners need to take an objective look at the whole thing, with the benefit of hindsight.
They would then be burning effigies of Scargill instead.
I hated her at the time, because I was young and stupid. When I grew up I realised she was the best PM of my lifetime.
Its hard to imagine what would have become of this country if she hadnt came to power.

[BazaJT]

Scargill caused more pit closures than Thatcher did.Traditionally when the miners went on strike the pit deputies were allowed to go down to keep the pits safe for when the miners returned[preventing build up of gasses/flooding etc]in the strike of '84 Scargill largely put a stop to the deputies being allowed past the picket lines and down the pits so many couldn't be "revived".