Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!

Lee, are you old enough to remember anything Thatcher did, were you even a twinkle in your old mans eyes?

Did you work in heavy industry, down a mine, build ships, run a multi national bank?

Nope, didn't think so.

These people are just more of the teenage wasteland using any excuse to riot and then blame the police. I know you can remember the Tottenham riots, notice the similarity?

The Guardian newspaper has live reports from Trafalgar Square:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/apr/13/margaret-thatcher-protests-cuts-live

Ah, I was wondering when a 'Thatcher' thread would appear. I have to admit, it took longer than I expected. The posts so far show that, even in death, she retains the ability to split opinion. Here's mine:

Falklands
Despite being a Brit, I don't much care whether we keep them or not. We are no longer the colonial power we once were and cannot really afford to defend these rocks in the arse-end-of-nowhere (I'm not just talking about the Falklands here). Yes, there might be oil in the surrounding seas, but we'd probably profit more from selling our North Sea drilling technology to the Argentinians than spending the profits from doing the drilling ourselves on defending the islands.

The complicating factor is the islanders themselves who still want to remain British. Like Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, and a few other loyal, but tiny places, we are committed to defending them and I reckon we're pro

oh damn...
for a half a second we were happy when we read the Thread title and that it comes from Lee...
but then we had to realize its not about the end of NLUO...

i know... i thought the same when i saw it.
Though, i was wondering who the witch was in NLUO. :p

I like Skandar's post.

Skandar what you said about me was fair, but like you said the word 'traitor' was idiotic and stupid of me as it is not even the right word to describe him for someone who holds different views compared to my own. I think he is just wrong in my opinion, I could have also said the same thing about your liberalism. It's just I don't like the idea of socialism and the people that are in it. However some of their policies are good such as the nationalisation of Powerstations and railways.

Maybe the 'Interceptor Party' thing was way too over the top for even something as distasteful for celebrating over the death of a good leader like her. I was acually thinking that things were going to escalate very quickly of how the way the 2011 riots did, of where it got up to the point that a lot of people came out to support the police to root out the troublemakers. But since there has been celebrations over other leaders deaths in history

Shame on Lee, as a German I admired the Iron Lady, our Bundeskanzlerin should be well following a similar example, +1 to Skandar and I don't like Argentinien, a wanna be European country so yeah I'm glad you Brits won the War.

I didn't agree with most of Thatchers policies either, just like Reagan, however I still think they are both intriguing historical figures.

Thatcher was against the German Re-unification, but still... No need to celebrate death.

Will one see how will things go with out concerv leadership.
Rob

Lee, you should never celebrate a person's death (unless it is Hitler's, then it is okay). For good or for ill, she led your country well.

@Laguna
Yeah, it's been a while. I rejoined the game a few months ago and wondered where all the big discussions had gone. This seemed like a meaty-enough topic to kick-start a decent debate.

@James the Fair
"I was acually thinking that things were going to escalate very quickly of how the way the 2011 riots did."

To be honest, I was expecting more of a protest at her funeral than actually occurred. I'm quite glad it went off quietly with just a dignified back-turning protest.

"You will never change my views on that since I have been brought up with traditional English values"
[Take this as a tongue-in-cheek comment!] Oh, like traditional values of tolerance and openness? Seems a bit of a contrast to your views.

Seriously, though, what do you consider to be traditional English values? We've long been a tolerant country, open to new ideas and intol

skander well done calling out the typikal cliche conservative rhetoric

BEFORE i start, yes i was there,did some demos,saw some riot,and helped some miners not to get caught(sorry mets)thatcher carried out every policy that the tories could think of ,which (debatably) helps the economy.
the trouble is that these policies are only good if you are on the correct side of the wealth fence ie: plenty of capital,or high earnings.
if you are in the lower income bracket you will always suffer under tories if you are out of work there is a good chance as in thatcher's day that you will become part of an underclass.
on top of this tories always create social division.Watch thatcher's speach outside number 10 when she was first elected (thats the one on bring harmony,hope etc)then reverse what she says and you have it.
Another thing that tories always do is make sure that there is plenty of unemployment to create competition for jobs etc,this is also extreemly socially devisive.
I coul

"why shouldnt everyone pay the same amount of taxes" ok Maggie what are you 5? maybe if we were communist everyone could pay the same amount of taxes

0% tax in great britainia on wg please feel free to build there i am eager to make strong alliences with players financial and otherwise so please do build there thank you in advance

smh