(not satire)
Oh dear. Looks like more bad news for fans of Margaret Thatcher.
According to a ComRes poll for the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror, 60% of the public say Thatcher’s funeral should not be funded by the taxpayer.
And not only that, but according to this poll, it seems we don’t think she was our greatest Prime Minister after all: (41% disagree / 33% agree)
Also, most of us think she was the the most divisive prime minister we’ve had (59%) – with a paltry 18% disagreeing.
Oh – and last but not least – more of us think we receive a worse level of service from gas, electricity and telephone companies after Thatcher privatised them than when they were nationalised (38% / 25%)
So – despite the spin – it’s starting to look like we British are not so enthusiastic about Thatcher and her legacy after all.
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You can get the details of the ComRes poll here:
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The media, who did very well out of her governments’ policies,are keen to tell us how wonderful she was but the voices of those who suffered (and continue to suffer) from the ideology that she unleashed on us are mostly excluded from television and radio.
They express surprise that many outside their privilaged positions take a contrary view of their ‘heroine’ and don’t quite understand that some people liked to have a collective view of society and not concentrate on their own personal success to the detriment of those about them.
These are almost ‘alien concepts’ to those at the top of the tree and thus rarely are expressed by those who think they have an almost god-given right to go on Today ,The Andrew Marr Show or Question Time.
‘Can’t have ‘the great unwashed’ coming onto the BBC and actually expressing the views of the people, can we’ seemed to be the policy of the corporation. That’s the reason they are surprised at the reaction of the public when opinion polls show they didn’t care much for her or her policies.
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Are the press gearing up for the election of the neo-liberal party called The Labour Party with this survey.
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@tom pride for some reason boneheads at the daily heil wont agree with you, dunno why in fact the heil has cracked up and tells us we are in a grip of leftiness that has a stranglehold over these fair isles as i posted to you recently..
btw i left you with a curious tale of govt spook sites and judge who hands out lighter sentences for paedophiles..so have fun looking into that one..
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@TOM PRIDE have a gander at this latest daily heil lunacy ::
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308301/How-Lefts-grip-Britain-tightening.htm
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btw what happened to the 50,000 millwall fans that were going to descend on ‘the commies’ in trafalgar square and give them a hiding for dissing maggie? you know maggie who was a keen footy fan, hillsborough and all that..
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as ‘annos’ and pointed out, this is what the falkland ‘war’ was all about, just think all those lives lost over bits of expensive rock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica
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chewie….i was 16…when i first heard the tales of millwall DOCKERS….must be around 1966 when i was in liverpool….i think that there was also another small event going on at the time….you’d think that there was a PR war going on….who won again…something about 60%…
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@donkey ive seen media insanity but in past few days the excelled themselves..and made themselves look fucking stupid as well..
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nah….havn’t you heard the latest plans alex to change name of england to scotland by deed poll
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a new rag is born the, daily blunder….
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@donkey is that english ‘deed’ or scottish ‘deed’ as in ” i think he’s deed, doctor”
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no…pun intended…but haven’t they actually manged to turn the mirror around…so they are now reflecting to…on… themselves….
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i’ll ask a friend……
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no….they speak in scots..and write in english…
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@donkey i speak english and write in rubbish could be other way round
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@donkey [1] yes [2] no [3] i dont know [4] what was the question?
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next time i want my opinion…i’ll ask the d/hell….and another thing if your are thinking of using your initiative ask us first….
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Cant Argue with the facts 🙂
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as much as some try to argue with the facts…the truth leaks out eventually….
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I would say that £10 million pounds sterling is an awful lot of money for an elderly lady’s funeral. But didn’t the British taxpayer pay for Margaret Thatcher’s colonial folly — the re-taking of the Falkland Islands from General Galtieri by Admiral Sir Henry Leach’s British navy taskforce?? The cost of that expedition is put at around £650 million pounds. Given that the Falkands have a human pop. of about 2,500, a sheep pop. of 700,000 and a penguin population of over 1 million penguins, of 6 different species, that works out at about £1,000 pounds per baa-baa or £650 per penguin.
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@tunefultony damn !! looks like i’m going to put as much money by as i can just to p,p,p,pick up a penguin…
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@donkey its ppl like you that dont conform to british standards of acceptable establishment order that make writing d/heil gobtripe difficult.
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Reblogged this on Carole….
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Here we go again. Folks moaning about the cost of a funeral (and probably the same who complain about the royal family) but who are probably happy with the compensation culture which is bleeding this country dry.
Mrs Thatcher left power over twenty years ago and recently passed away. It is interesting observing all this because it shows that even in death she is making the left look like bunch of vindictive and impotent fools. Just as she did in life.
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@loverat so enlighten us, just who are THE LEFT? i would really like to know because ive just been looking at yahoo news threads and can count some several thousand ppl on there each with hundreds if not thousands of thumbs up on each critical cooment about the funeral, so that means quite a few thousands on there.
it mat have escape you but we have this ‘austerity thing’ thats been imposed on us, shit like that kinds gets people wound up, silly people have this old fashioned idea of fairness..and lets see i rather think that capitalism/opportunism creates claim culture…have fun being in the minority…
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bobchewie
Personally I have little wish to debate whether Mrs Thatcher’s policies did good or bad for this country. It was probably a mixture of both as with most leaders. Personally I think Winston Churchill was the best leader this country had by miles and he was not perfect either.
It will interesting to see whether we get same reaction when it is Tony Blair’s time but I doubt that. Nobody knows what he stood for – perhaps except the victims of the pointless wars he pursued abroad. I think the problem for alot of folks, mainly on the left, is that they dislike what Mrs Thatcher represented and her idealogy. The rest of the people you mention on Yahoo are just getting swept along by the circus – just as we saw with the ridiculous McAlpineTwitter episode recently.
In actual fact many of the people who worked with Thatcher say she was quite pragmatic about many things and she was. As a person I think she was far more concerned about doing good for this country than say Tony Blair, who was a career politician who only cared about self preservation of his party.
Anyway – it is really pointless discussing politics of 30 years ago. I do wonder why people cannot move on, accept she did some good things and not so good things and let the funeral proceed without these ridiculous and vindictive protests.
I do like this site but some of the contributors when discussing any issue seem to be guided by what their preferred party is likely to support or swept along by the nonsense. Personally it would be nice to more individual thinking than the usual pointless political posturing .
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@loverat so what you are saying is you’ve lost the argument and wont admit and bottled out, ok. byee
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Loverat
The compensation claims culture has been changed as of this month, so that anyone who wins a claim has to pay court and solicitor fees out of any winnings. The solicitors will not take on cases they do not think they will win or that may be an embarrassment to the state, so It’s a win win situation for the judiciary and it’s exponents then.
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