Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
...the clemency and respect ... are values that her government and policies sought to annihilate
(From Russell Brand's piece in The Guardian)
This is why I loathe Maggie Thatcher and all who sailed with her. Brand nails the core dysfunction of her politics and her political style. It is nothing whatever to do with gender: I am infuriated that you are trying to pin my abhorrence of her style and her political beliefs on her being an aggressive woman. Unlike you, I lived for years under Thatcher and felt and saw the consequences of her policies on me and my closest friends.
Please do not try to pull a gender politics smokescreen over total political diasgreement.
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Russell Brown,
The Thatcher's Dead street-party
I loathed her politics but I'm not happy she's dead. Old-fashioned I suppose.
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Islander,
her handshake was boneless
Known in my family as "the wet fish" after a dead Chch notable we would see at family occasions.
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Lilith __,
This shows why few women stay in politics for the long term: most of them cannot stand the very male system:
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Twatcock FTW.
What does that mean? I have seen it before on PAS.
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Margaret Thatcher called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, so this song was doubly pleasing back then
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
Heh.
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Russell Brown,
+1
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Lilith __,
I think I prefer discussion that has no name-calling, though
I think it's an age-and-place thing because usually I agree. Russell explains it well with his comment about the profound alienation and division Thatcher's government left behind.
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Emma Hart,
It's a personality-typed insult to me.