A substantial crowd gathered in Windrush Square in Brixton last night on the news that Margaret Thatcher had died.
An event page on Facebook attracted nearly 1,000 responses, and by 6pm there was already a large crowd filling the square.
Here’s some photos from the day.
A man enjoys a celebratory cigar.
Dancing in the square.
Several bands played around the square.
Banner displayed from the Ritzy.
A toast!
Thatcher ‘the milk snatcher’ was remembered.
A samba band arrived later in the evening.
The letters on the Ritzy cinema were ‘artistically’ rearranged.
The crowd was still huge by 9pm.
Foxtons is paint-bombed.
Street barricade.
Dancing in the streets.
The crowd paid a visit to Brixton Police station around midnight.
It got a bit silly by the end, and riot police were called in.
Read more – and join in with the discussions on urban75:
Celebrate Thatcher’s death party, tonight, Windrush Square
Thatcher is dead
Thread for public figures telling it like it is about Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette – Guardian
No state funeral for Thatcher – Petition.
complain to the bbc about their hideous fawning coverage of the thatcher demise
Maggie’s Died!
I think it’s disgusting that people can celebrate someones death, especially someone how has done a lot of good or the country. A lot of people would not be living in the homes they do if it wasn’t for Maggie!
You’re a bit confused Craig.
Even Iain Duncan Smith has admitted that Thatcher’s council housing sell off was a big mistake, and because of that stupid woman, millions will never be able to afford decent homes.
Look! Even the Daily Mail says so!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163644/Thatchers-housing-sell-flawed-says-Iain-Duncan-Smith.html
Whether what she did was good or bad for the wider country is one for historians to debate over.
But what is obvious is if you’re from one of the town her policies decimated – or a family that was pushed into poverty with little or no escape due to her decisions – or the family member of a hillsborough victim that had to fight for justice for years because of her protecting the police – you’d be forgiven for not queuing to sign the book of condolences.
and thousands now wouldn,t be faced with the bedroom tax and pushed into abject poverty and misery…this is because of this… she was an evil dictator just out for the uber rich somewhat like the cons now.
Craig, if it had not been for Thatcher a lot more would have homes to live in.
But Thatcher is not someone, not even something.
She is evil incarnate and probably never did any good in her wretched life, except to herself and the fascists she served throughout.
LMAO dailymail quote that just says it all….
I agree with you Craig, it was not the selling off of council housing which was the problem, it is people’s greed capitalising on the ever continues rise in property prises and the fools that are willing to pay extortionate amounts of money for their little piece of the pie. As for rents, landlords only charge as much as people are willing to pay. I personally hate the council tax system and would rather each person in a household pay their share, just because a persons land is bigger does not mean that they use more services. In the street which I live, in some houses there are 6 adults in three bedroom houses, are people telling me that they use less than the couple across the road??? I doubt it. More rubbish to collect, etc, etc….Yes, there are things which she got wrong, but which one of us has not ever made the wrong decisions in good faith? To be rejoining that someone has died, is not a good reflection on our society as a whole, she was no Pol Pot or Idi Amin. Do people really think that Tony Blair and Brown got it right? Look at the mess we are in now, people remember the rosier days, of spending and forget how we got in this mess in the first place. Yes, there are things such as selling off of services such as gas, but Blair’s government also ensured that so many things were outsourced and not run by the government, all given contracts to their buddies…oh, how people forget!
Apart from the fact that Brown and Blair didn’t take away thousands of jobs that people depended on to feed their families, and trying to save a pitiful amount of money by taking away nutrition from children
Oh, but they did…we are only seeing the effects of their actions now. They just done it in a different way. Although I am not loyal to any party and think they are all really devils in their own way, New Labour truly messed up and people just shall not admit it. As for nutrition, not everyone should drink milk, it is not suitable for everyone and is not the best source of calcium for many….I did not say the woman was perfect but I find it rather simple minded for people to be dancing in the streets because she has passed.
Apart from the fact they got us in a war through lies and got some of my mates killed for no good reason, oh and bankrupted us, and lied and stole from us…………plonker!
I remember how we got to here bankers and financiers governments and fat cats not the ordinary man who has always fought for his/her existence they are the ones who got greedy not the people the people in charge and now those of us who cannot afford to eat or heat our homes or hide when the debt collector/Baliff calls to take our stuff!!!! are expected to pick up the pieces because now all of a sudden welfare is to blame Come on..
that Craig must be a young person Thatcher done nothing for the country except pinch school milk close the pits and sell off houses so they can claim a stupid tax (bedroom tax) now….
Did nothing for the country??…3 day working weeks were great eh? A country held to ransom by the likes of Scargill (hmm wasn’t it Scargill who destroyed the NUM?) Research Kinnock’s views on the great Arthur…I think you’ll find that Labour had exactly the same plans for “pinching milk” long before Mrs Thatcher. Standing up for our rights in Europe and defending British citizens from a military junta…no, you’re right, “she done nothing for the country”.
You really haven’t checked your facts have you Colin. Suggest you look up Robens.
That Craig is not a young person… Even if that were the case i’d be sure to look at all sides of the story. At the end of the day Margret Thatcher did some right and some wrong in terms of politics, but she was still kept in or three terms and at the end of the day is a human being and if not Maggie herself, her family deserve a little respect.
It is not allowed to dance on the grave of an woman who distroid millions of people there life’s? It is an miracle no one kills such people in the name of the common interest. On the moment that is going to happen then maybe polititions start thinking again for who they are working and who pays them. But then again, in whole of Europe is an bloody revolution needed to stop those corrupted bastards. Without an bloody revolution they will keep distroing the EU for there own profit.
Wasn’t she Education Secretary at one time? A little education wouldn’t have gone amiss here!! the word is DESTROY – there’s no I in it!!
My word…no wonder you can’t get a job.
Hi I am khristian from Indonesia, what happened…it seems all british folks rejoice of her death…isn’t it awfull?
Hi khristian, only uninformed or biaised people rejoiced, most people who hated her were workshy, lazy individuals who tried to hold our country to ransom through strike action. Basically communists, they are entitled to their opinion, but it shows the sort of people they are by doing this on somebody’s death……..a pictuer paints a thousand words. I am poor also by the way but don’t blame thatcher, i blame the breweries ha ha
Work shy ? Lazy ? Have you ever worked down a pit ? Oh how ignorant you Thatcher lovers are.
omg Nigel how dare you !! I lived through the thatcher years!! I had 5 kids and a husband my husband was self employed and worked 6 days a week 12 hours everyday..I to fit in with my kids had 3 part time jobs so as I could take them and collect them from school, where my mum looked after them until my husband came home from work..I worked from 9.30 on a morning til 12 midnight 6 days a week and Sunday afternoons, I never saw my kids and me and my husband passed on the landing in the mornings saying hello through the sleepy haze!!! I missed my kids growing up for the best part of their lives and we still nearly lost our house because of her cuts and the rising inflation, we couldn,t physically have worked any more hours a week between us so don,t you dare insinuate that folks who are glad she has passed were misinformed, workshy, lazy people.
Well said Nigel. The miners are heralded as the backbone of Britain but the reality was very different.
The whole system was rotten to the core – booze at work/sleeping/10 men to do one mans job etc etc – the best ‘con’ was football injuries on Sunday then on Monday claiming an industrial accident!
Iit was jobs for the boys – sons followed fathers – the job was so good outsiders/incomers had no chance of a job
If you know mining then you will know that given ‘travelling time’/washing etc etc you could actually only ‘work’ about two hours per shift!
Overtime was a ‘right’ – demanded by the union
When Scargill started his war against the Tory’s the rot set in – he wanted to keep open pits with seams long worked out – jobs to sit and do nothing!
He then sent thugs from Yorks/Durham etc to enforce the strike – Notts said no.
The pit in question – Thorseby is still open and producing huge quantities of excellent coal – jobs impossible to get – why? – over £60K/annum salary underground plus perks (private med care etc etc).
There are still ongoing claims for vibration white finger (average payout about £30K) – many are fraudulant (bag of frozen peas in the pocket).
I totally agree with you Craig, it sickens me to see these pictures,to have a party in the street to celebrate someone’s death??? Disgusting! Take a look in the mirror people, what kind of people are you?
People whose families and communities were destroyed by her decisions and aren’t in the mood to forgive and forget?
the same kind of people who are still being persecuted today probably, unless you have been affect directly through the conservatives decisions whether it be then or now you just would nt understand.
Those of you supporting (or even participating in) these disgusting displays on the streets of our country seem to have failed to notice that she left power over 20 years ago. Celebrate her being democratically removed from power by all means. But dancing on her grave (figuratively) so very many years after she ceased to have any influence is sick, twisted and cowardly.
She didn’t get everything right, but don’t try and pretend that 60s and 70s Britain was some kind of utopia. Mainland Europe considered the UK to be a FAILED STATE. 3 day weeks, unions crushing the country, power cuts, bodies not being buried, no services etc etc. Someone had to do SOMETHING. The country was on its knees. Absolutely and completely on its knees.
Get a grip of yourselves. Feel entirely free not to mourn her death, but for goodness sake grow up and display some humanity.
She showed no humanity to the millions she shunted on the dole, the lives she destroyed or the communities she tore apart, so I fail to see why some sort of reverent silence should be maintained at her death.
And she may have left power 20 years ago but as even most A level students understand, her influence can still be felt very sharply, especially by those at the bottom of the pile.
See? There you go. You’re blaming someone else for your failings. Did she destroy YOUR life? How? Were you affected by the Poll Tax?
And at least there WAS a dole for them to be “shunted” onto!
She also helped a great many people and dragged the country out of the mire.
And I don’t think that many A-level students (who have clearly opted to enjoy the voluntary education provided FOR FREE) have much to grumble about. And nor do you.
She destroyed my community. She put proud hard working men from my village on the scrapheap and most of them never got a job again, while her cronies trousered fat bonuses in the city.
Is that enough for you?
No – it’s very much NOT enough for me. You have simply trotted out the same nonsense again.
HOW did she destroy your community? Were you a miner? Upon what scrapheap did she throw all of your village menfolk?
The country HAD to be dragged kicking and screaming (and there was an awful lot of kicking and screaming) into the modern era.
You have internet access. That means you must have some level of income, either from a job or the state and I don’t wish to pry. But the point is that you are able to afford and life a lifestyle FAR beyond that imagined by many in other countries.
We have it pretty good here, whatever your level within the socio-economic strata. Please bear that in mind when criticizing so heavily for something that had to happen such a long time ago.
Legacy is an excuse.
Sure we have it good compared to other parts of the world, and there’s plenty of money to be had for those at the top, while the NHS struggles along and millions try to get by on the breadline.
No doubt you’re not concerned about the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the UK, but such disparities will always lead to social unrest.
If there’s so much money about, why should the rich have such obscene amounts of the stuff, while those at the bottom have so little?
As for the impact on communities, try taking a look around some of the socially deprived areas of the north and the Midlands, and the Welsh valleys.
Not everyone has it as good as you.
Of course. However, I’m a low-paid public-sector worker so don’t labour under the mis-apprehension that everyone who disagrees with you is rich/over-privileged/posh etc etc.
And everyone always bangs on about this ever-widening gap between rich and poor. I don’t think that’s the full picture. The extremes may be widening, but the VAST majority of people are sitting in the middle. Jealousy aside, there will always be rich people and there will always be poor people. But you can’t go on making the same accusations as have been made through the mists of time.
One Prime Minister is not responsible for the existence of poor people. Nor is she responsible for the existence of rich people. Nor is she responsible for the difference. The mechanics of the free world take care of that. Certain government policies may push things one way or another to a degree, but they are not – and cannot be – responsible for the sort of fundamentals/extremes you are talking about.
And the NHS is not struggling because Margaret Thatcher got rid of school milk. The NHS is struggling because EVERYONE is struggling. You can’t blame the GLOBAL (there’s a clue) economic situation on one country’s Prime Minister 20 years ago.
Four Railtrack bosses have just awarded themselves a total of £600k bonuses for the year. That’s a *direct* legacy of Thatcherism.
It’s a disgrace.
Is it? How? Simply because of the privatisation of the railways or something more sinister? People vote themselves pay-rises. It’s distasteful but it’s a fact of life. It doesn’t come out of your taxes anyway.
How about MPs deciding to defer the increased contributions to their pensions whilst enforcing the same in other sectors of public service? That’s nothing to do with Thatcherism.
Not every evil in the world today stems from a 20 year out-of-office Prime Minister. There have been four prime ministers since her. Don’t they bear some responsibility for some of these things you’re worried about?
how disrespectful can people get yes she had her right ways and she had her wrong just like us all.one thing people forget she stood up to argentina who tried to take our land from us.where as most mps have cleaners she did everything herself.they didnt call her the iron lady for nothing she tried her best for this country more than any of the others have.she didnt give herself big pay rises like everyone else as for a start.
Take your land??? Have a look at the location.
Although I’m not a big thatcher fan, I think it is terrible to celebrate someone’s death in this manner not to mention how disrespectful it is to her family.
She created ambition in society rather than the sense of entitlement that pervades through the great unwashed today. As witnessed in those photos above.
I guess if you’re from the section of society that benefited from her decisions, you might well be of this opinion.
That said, if you’re the type of person that uses a term like “great unwashed” without a sense of irony, you were probably Thatchers type of person.
Who needs irony, a picture says a thousand words.
Quite right James.
This bizarre sense of entitlement that is displayed by so many needs to be challenged.
And looking at those pictures above, how many of those youths and other toothless morons can actually claim any kind of victimisation? How many of them were even born when she came to power?
People hide behind excuses in their desperate efforts to blame ANYONE else but themselves.
What’s someone’s dental state got to do with anything? What a truly asinine remark.
I think you missed the point. By some distance. Again.
Right. So people weren’t ambitious before she got into power, yes?
Did she invent oxygen too?
Mondeo Man to the crack dealing yardie with an Audi. Sad times.
You’re a racist scumbag. A real disgrace.
How is that racist? Knob!
get lost you racist pencil dick
Sorry, I apologise to the law abiding Audi drivers.
Craig people will try to rewrite history. What she did should not be forgotten. If she was a left wing politician like Chavez the papers would be filled with propaganda about how bad she was. Unfortunately this is how people can get media attention to highlight her disliking and the scar left on he country.
Her family needs some respect, you must be joking all her son ever did was get lost ( should have stayed that way) with his phoney title, as for her conceited daughter, well,if you know about her make your own mind up.
Her son was selling arms! While she was paying for him to drive his racing car.. heavens sake. Good Mother? x
Kate, we cannot be held accountable for the actions of our children when they are adults! Mother’s sometimes try their best but the actions of the children are of their own doing.
Cosying up to Pinochet and selling off the country’s assets to the lowest rightwing bidders wasn’t exactly setting a good moral or ideological example.
Sorry I don’t think she deserves any respect at all.Did she give any to the 96 Families who lost loved ones at Hillsborough,NO she made the police cover it up.If it was up to me,i would send her body to 1 of the Cities/Towns she brought to the ground,they would bury her for free
she didnt make the police cover it up they did that all by themselves
conspiracy theories should be banned
Here’s what she did with the police:
“Margaret Thatcher dead: Authoritarian ruler took us to the brink of becoming a police state
Former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester says she turned the police into a paramilitary force and put us on to a war footing”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-dead-authoritarian-ruler-1821699
Absolute tosh. The Left get shriller and more desparate by the day. Thatcher won – she was no more divisive than any leader before her – it comes with the job. The police force like all public sector organisations in this country needed a reality check and Thatcher gave it to them. Shame there is no-one of her stature around today because Britain sorely needs it. A massive majority of the country supported her then and still do. Get over it.
Oh don’t be silly. She didn’t “make” the police do anything. You can’t blame her for Hilsborough too! For goodness sake, you people!!!
I see two types of protester there: one far too young to even remember Thatcher and another red stripe swilling no hoper dole bludger with hardly any idea of dental hygiene. Thatcher took big decisions that all other PMs were frightened to take. The fact that you are sitting drinking outside a middle class art house cinema in Brixton is testament to her beliefs
It’s a good job we’re basing people’s ability to contribute to society on the state of their teeth nowadays, otherwise that comment might have made you sound like a bit of a conceited arsehole.
started outside the library actually – that she would have privatised if she could have. in the main square of a town she tried to destroy.
So because he’s got bad teeth and drinking red stripe that makes him a no hoper dole bludger? Get off your high horse and stop judging people by their looks, you’re disgusting
And celebrating someone’s death by dancing in the streets isn’t? Sheesh!
Where did I say it wasn’t?
Love it! Agree completely with that description of those morons. The photos of this lot celebrating last night in Brixton say it all. Bunch of dirty, ugly, sad, no hopers in life. Probably mostly Urban75’ers from the look of them..
If you’re from one of the communities she systematically destroyed, or one of the autocratic regimes her and her arms dealer son propped up, you might have a different opinion.
Anyone who supports her does so as the enduring result of her legacy: the replacement of society with the self.
Exactly Dan. She was such a good mother to her children and HER country.
And look at that my comment is awaiting moderation? Lovely.. poor old Emily Pankhurst, created the vote for women. And Thatcher created a police state to stop us all talking. It’s kinda happening now…? Freedom of speech well it lasts for a while.. x
Ridiculous! Trash folk and yobboes, what do you think you will win or gain by this hoopla?? Get the old times back??
Hah! It serves your right stay on the dole and shut jobs,
if you behave like that. Go england, your reputation amongst europeans is saved now.
Ima: why do you think they’re all on the dole? And what on earth is a ‘shut job’?
Oh, I get it. You’re just a random idiot!
PS ‘England’ has a capital ‘E,’ you ignorant buffoon.
Brixton: really, really classy
Let me thank you on behalf of Brixton.
Now get back to fapping over Cameron.
Touched a nerve? Thatcher won, get over it
Not only did Maggie steal their milk. It also looks like she stole their soap, shampoo and toothpaste.
^^ Nice one!!
Utterly shameful. the people in these pics are an utter shame to Britain. Do they really think reveling in the death of an 82 year old woman, with Alzheimer’s actually shows them in a good light? How many of them actually lived through the Thatcher years?
Shameful.
I did and I’ll never forget what she did to my community. People are still suffering from her legacy of greed.
You might find this article enlightening: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-etiquette
Showing everyone that you read the Guardian (online) does not make the point any more valid. And it’s time to stop blaming someone who left power 20-something years ago for successive failings ever since. Come on. Have some shred of self-respect.
Well done the people of Brixton. Still using Thatcher as an excuse to be a crime ridden , jobless dump 30 years on.
Spend the rest of your lives clinging to those excuses to avoid actually getting anywhere.
People of Brixton – happy to have an excuse for their failings for a long , long time yet.
These people are all morons
Half of the people in these pictures look far too young to have even seen the woman while she was in power let alone lived through her government! The woman did a LOT of wrong in her time, but at least she had a backbone, since she left office we have become somewhat of a joke internationally. Regardless of what she did (and lets not forget, she did what she did but was still re-elected time and time again… if you spent less time complaining and dancing in the streets when the woman’s dead, and spent more time voting….) she and her family deserve a little more respect than what they are bwing shown.
Thatcher’s policy of flogging council housing off cheap is perhaps one of her worst legacies.
A third of all ‘right to buy’ houses are now owned by private landlords, so landlords have got richer and richer while those at the bottom continue to be exploited or struggle to find anywhere to live.
http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/03/right-buy-houses-are-now-just-owned-private-landlords
Well done Thatcher. Money in the pockets of your friends at the expense of the poor and needy.
Good riddance to her.
So none of those who bought a cheap council house never made thousands ? I know plenty who did, some up to £250K !
Who do you think sold the private landlords that council house and made a shed load of money ? Oh yes, it was the ‘ poor people’ who got given a house by the State.
No mention from you, Sue, that they made a ton of cash, far better to peddle your broken record of the rich getting richer etc etc.
^^ exactly! Well said! All those West-Indians in Brixton who were able to sell on their counsel properties for huge profits to the private landlords (and I know many!) so that they could move back to the Caribbean and build their big houses. Not keep it in the families so they could own a property.. nooo… they would expect another counsel property for them. And now that they’ve sold off their properties for huge profit which they so greatly benefited from and private landlords have taken advantage of, some in Brixton don’t like the new influx of people. They only have themselves to blame. They basically did exactly (or worse..) than what private landlords are doing now. They went for the big, quick profit. Now suddenly it is wrong for others to do it. Pot, kettle.. Being able to buy your counsel property was meant to give you and your family your ‘own’ property, not to greedily sell off for a quick buck to the highest bidder.. and now they hate the capitalists and Thatcher! The irony of it!!
Look on the bright side – they moved back to the Caribbean
Not really necessary to make a racist comment Bob!
Though I can see the points you’re making, I don’t think it’s necessary to make such racist comments.
Hope you don’t mean me Josie? I’m a BLACK West-Indian myself who’s just stating the facts.
i didnt like maggie since the war on the faulklands, however she did bring order 2 the uk,i condone any1 celeborating of her death because she was no longer in rule of the uk therfore u should all reS
pect anybodys death not manipulating thm there not here 2 defend thm selfs so buttttttt out R.I.P. MAGS X
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I think that holding a sign saying ‘the bitch is dead’ is misogynystic. Why are people still using the word bitch for a woman they don’t like, agree with, or have a hatred for? It’s 2013 people. Let’s get with the programme. What would the sign have said if it was a mr thatcher? We are not a civilised society unless we are prepared to question ourselves.
Well done on the foxtons paint job though.
What is the justification for paint-bombing Foxtons? They’re hardly a tool of the state. It demonstrates the willingness of quite a lot of people to jump on any bandwagon going, and try to justify straight-forward thuggery.
Personally find this appalling… degrading and despicable… and shows the worse side of what is jokingly called humanity!!! I did not agree with any of her policies… I lived through her years… I witnessed her devastation, and suffered the Consequences…. YET… I still say I would rather be “done over” by Thacher… than by the mealy mouthed, backboneless, privileged, idiots we so lamely call politicians today…. I find these street party’s … simply very sadly depressing… I thought we were better than that !!!! FFS !!!!!What a vile world we live in !!!
I agree with you Sue, what a vile world! Maybe a lot of those protesters are anarchists looking for an excuse to be out there. It’s how it seems to me. I lived through the Thatcher years, she didn’t do my family any favours, but we got through, when my husband had to work 3 days to support the miners.I certainly think she is entitled to some respect,the actions of the protesters in my opinion is completely over the top and disgusting!
On what basis are you declaring them ‘anarchists’? Did you go there and talk to anyone?
Or is this just based on your cartoon-like personal bigotry and stereotyping?
Whether maggie’s actions and decisions were right or wrong, good or bad, at the end of the day politics will always have good and bad results, you can’t please everyone or have a perfect country, it’s just not possible! Also she was human the same as everyone on here and every other politician that just tries to do what they think is best. Celebrating anyone’s death like this is just absolutely disgraceful and I am ashamed that these are my country people, all I can say is would anyone who has commented on here want their death celebrated like this or their parents or their kids??? And do you really think you could do a better job because I know I couldn’t
Hope to see them do the same for Queen Elizabeth.
Never really cared much for politics, heard thatcher screwed up things, So now she is dead, oh and hasn’t been in power for 23 years, im guessing from all the celebrations there will be a massive drop in house prices, cows, donkey’s and horses milk in every school? oh wait dont we have a prime minister a the moment, who im yet to see make change or fix the mistakes of the past? My heart goes out to the children who now think partying because someone has died is a good thing. what is this world coming too.
saw this yesterday and figured it should be read by all, this is brilliant maybe all those who think its fitting to go party becuase a human being has died should perhaps reading this instead and getting a history lesson for free!
Tonight I shall go and have a drink for Margaret Thatcher’s death. I shall raise my glass to the night sky, and THANK HER, and celebrate her life. People on this seem to have a very strange view of history. So here are a few little nuggets with how and more specifically WHY a lot of industries were destroyed by her, and what’s more, destroyed with the MANDATE OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE. The seventies were blighted by the trade unions waiting for winter and then coming out on strike at it’s heart. Holding the country to ransom for ANNUAL pay rises of up to 36% ABOVE inflation. This was the likes of Scargill and co. And they bled us dry. We were bankrupted by them. And then the Winter of Discontent happened. And they ALL came out. Miners, power workers, transport workers; even funeral directors, everything tied into the TGWU came out. My own grandparents lay on a slab for 2 months waiting to be buried. The entire country was a ruin. Rubbish not collected for months, rats everywhere. And the unions laughed, and brought down Callaghan’s Labour Government. And Thatcher stood up at the General Election and made ONE SIMPLE PROMISE. Elect me. And THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. ELECT ME AND I WILL DESTROY THEM. She won a landslide. On that promise.And she became the last elected Prime Minister to actually hold true to her election promise. She did exactly what she said. She utterly destroyed the unions. Obliterated them. The cost was those industries. We knew that would be the price. But we would not allow them to hold us to ransom again. What she did, she did with our BLESSING. The socialists and people who backed those strikes have only themselves to blame for what happened. Baroness Thatcher didn’t destroy those industries and communities for fun or as part of a class war. She did it to stop them holding the country to ransom again. And then she held the purse strings tight and re-built the economy and the country and Britain again stood tall and thrived. And we won back the global respect we had lost while the left wing ruled. In the Falklands we were thankful for her being in office. Those of us who went ‘south’ in ’82 did so knowing we had a leader who would not – and did not- interfere. She sent the military and allowed us to do our job. Gave us the money, the equipment and most of all THE FREEDOM to get the job done. Our lands had been invaded. We had a gun up our nose. SHE led us. Frankly Thatcher took a very broken Britain by the hand like a strict old fashioned Matron and LED THE COUNTRY BACK TO WHERE IT HAD ONCE BEEN. We were the worlds 3rd major power in ALL respects. And as for the world, it has NEVER been safer than when Thatcher was in Downing Street, Reagan was in the White House and Gorbachev was in the Kremlin as the three spoke DAILY. They laid the ground for the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Russians were TERRIFIED of her. And the world again feared Britain. And lets not forget that she gave people the full right to buy their own council property. Her vision was that the TENNANT and the tennant alone could buy that property.As soon as her party stabbed her in the back the feeding frenzy began as under her the famous Tory grandee greed was held in check. So they stabbed her, led by the europro traitor ponce Heseltine – who didn’t have the guts to face her openly and alone – they arranged her removal. And we have been a broken patsy for europe ever since. So yes, tonight I will celebrate the death of Baroness Thatcher, with thanks, with respect, and with sadness, because she allowed me to know what we could be, what we could achieve, what it meant to be BRITISH.
Well said KMH, thanks for sharing.
come on guys. there is nothing wrong with celebrating the death of anyone.
especially one hated so much as her.
a lot of cultures, including the alternative culture celebrate death in a big way.
I had a party year after year for my mum, and still do. its normal to do this.
maggies death should be turned into a national holiday.
i think most are jealous that her death happened and everyone had a monday night party, when the rest have to stay in because they have to go to work the next day.
most normal people can still go to parties and go to work… its not difficult. its called letting your hair down.
You had party’s after your Mum died! Did your party guests hold up banners like ” the bitch is dead ” etc?? Don’t talk like an idiot!! What those people are doing is disgusting! And furthermore Mrs T hasn’t been in power for years so stop blaming her for your problems now, if things don’t go well in your life then dust yourself down and start again like we all have to. Go have your pathetic party’s for someone who deserves them like Bin Laden or Hitler, people who really is evil you fools! Rant over!
Hate to spoil the Thatcher love-in for all you Tories, but the facts are simple. She was an unmitigated disaster for Britain.
“Margaret Thatcher’s most important long-term legacy is likely to be the huge rise in inequality that she caused.
The widening of income differences between rich and poor that took place during the 80s (particularly from 1985) is the most rapid ever recorded.
The most widely used measure of income differences shows inequality increasing by more than a third during her period in office…
The price we all continue to pay for Thatcherite policies is to live in a less cohesive and more antisocial society, in which community life is weaker, people feel less able to trust each other and fewer of those in government have the experience and compassion to represent or understand the vast majority.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/10/inequality-margaret-thatcher-britain-desirable-business
oh dear
^^quite. Admin – you’re a moron. How can you possibly sit there and say she was an unmitigated disaster for Britain? That’s just utter guff on a grand scale. You (and many others) are quite entitled to disagree with policies, but don’t invent history to suit your armchair-critic prejudice.
Have some manners, please.
Here’s another article for you to get all outraged and abusive about.
Thatcherism was a national catastrophe that still poisons us
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/owen-jones-thatcherism-was-a-national-catastrophe-that-still-poisons-us-8564858.html
Thatcher was an economic disaster for this country. Her flagship policy was relying on a deregulated financial sector for Britain’s prosperity. Look how that turned out. The banks have been largely nationalised and the rest bailed out with massive handouts of taxpayer’s money. The result: Thatcher’s Debt Mountain.
Maggie is dead. Rejoice at that news.
A blatant shill for the 1% – she despised working people and yearned for the ye ole feudal serfdom.
If there is a bright side to Lady Thatchers death and the shenanigans that has followed it is to remind people once again of just how nasty, vile, ignorant, deluded and dangerous elements of the left wing in this country can be.
By all means disagree with her policies. By all means smile to yourself and have a quiet drink if that floats your boat, but have a little respect. I know some perfectly decent left wing folk who would be appalled at what is being done under the banner of their political leanings.
For those on here who boast of their disgraceful beahviour I will make you this bet: When Tony Blair and Gordon Brown die, there will be many in this country who will feel as strongly about the utter carnage that those two have inflicted on the social and economic well being of this country as you feel about Mrs Thatcher. Many would wish to see them tried in court for their crimes and for the suffering they have inflicted on millions. However I bet that nobody (at least of conservative or of centre right political persuasion) will indulge in the kind of shameful scenes that you and your chums have engaged in.
There are 3 reasons for this:
1. We don’t have the mental age of a turnip
2. We will have read more than a twitter feed from which to form our opinions
3. We have a little class, and an appropriate sense of decorum.
As you were.
I can see you’re not the sharpest tool in the box, neither do you even have a basic understanding about Thatcher’s real legacy.
Britain – or ‘Broken Britain for Cameron fans – is still suffering the deeply divisive effects of her policies, best summed up by this quote:
“When she walked into Downing Street promising harmony instead of discord, only one in seven children was poor and Britain was more equal than at any time in modern history. But within a few years, a third of children were poor, a sign of the yawning inequality from which the country never recovered.”
And I’m hopeful that you can forget your hatred of the poor for a moment and let this one simple statement sink in: “The widening of income differences between rich and poor that took place during the 80s is the most rapid ever recorded”
Thatcher destroyed Britain. The rich got richer, while public assets were sold off on the cheap, communities devastated and decent housing pushed out of the reach of ordinary working people. May she rot in Hell.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/interactive/2013/apr/11/margaret-thatcher-legacy-best-writing#glenn-greenwald
Thank you for your kind words my friend.
No sure where you get this ‘hate the poor’ thing from?
I do however hold massive contempt for the morons partying and waving copies socialist worker in the air.
These pictures make me cringe and feel quite sick. Celebrating like this over a death is immature and vile.