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RIP Maggie Thatcher.

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Should there be a day-off work to mark this?

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Yorkshire Blue said:
I don't understand why more people don't want a day-off.

It doesn't matter if you want to celebrate her life or her demise, a day-off work is a day-off work.

Give us a public holiday!
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I guess as her biggest legacy is mass unemployment a lot of people will have that day off, they'll just have a lot of days off either side of it.
 
I was a sub contract pipefitter and spent so much time in and out of out of work my house was nearly reposessed in the eighties as she decimated the building industry. Don't like to speak ill of the dead but had zero respect for her when she was alive and the same goes for today.
 
Yorkshire Blue said:
I don't understand why more people don't want a day-off.

It doesn't matter if you want to celebrate her life or her demise, a day-off work is a day-off work.

Give us a public holiday!
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Or better still, those who want to celebrate her life get a day off and those who don't can go to work.
 
BarnaBlue said:
The fact that the Queen (plus Phil the Greek) are going next week makes it a state funeral in all but name.:sad:
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Don't see that myself. It's about paying your respects, and whether you're the Queen of England or not, you'd be bound to want to do so for someone you worked quite closely with for 11 and a half years. It's NOT a state funeral but a ceremonial one.
 
OldBlueLady said:
Don't see that myself. It's about paying your respects, and whether you're the Queen of England or not, you'd be bound to want to do so for someone you worked quite closely with for 11 and a half years. It's NOT a state funeral but a ceremonial one.
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The only previous PM's funeral that the Queen has been to was Churchill's,which was a state funeral.(Draw your own conclusions).
 
Why are we all having to contribute to a funeral for this woman? Is there an opt-out clause/loophole that the likes of her friends have from paying tax?
 
BarnaBlue said:
The only previous PM's funeral that the Queen has been to was Churchill's,which was a state funeral.(Draw your own conclusions).
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No, Prince Charles attended Wilson's on her behalf. On the other hand, she went to dinner with Wilson to mark his resignation, an act she only ever bestowed on one other PM, Winston Churchill. Does that make her a Labour supporter? Some things she would have done out of duty, some out of choice. Maggie was the longest serving 20th century PM and the only woman, I fully understand that the Queen feels she ought to attend.
 
I hated Thatcher and fought against her and her ideas in many political campaigns. Her and Mr Baker's Education reforms are probably a large factor for me now living in South-west France. With a bit of maturity and some hindsight one can see that what she did was not all bad. However, for me, the front on which she deserves the biggest condemnation, was her enthusiasm for creating a culture of greed and deregulating the banks, which in the end, led to them screwing us all royally. I'm sure someone can even construct a good argument as to why she has played an important part in our dream stadium not yet being built. :smile:
I'm sure everone will agree with Ken Loach's comments following her death. :winking:

"Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out to tender and accept
the cheapest bid. It's what she would have wanted."
 
yogi bear up the cagire said:
was her enthusiasm for creating a culture of greed and deregulating the banks, which in the end, led to them screwing us all royally.
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*sigh*

I know that you aren't interested; politics is like football where tribal loyalties are all that count, but it is worth considering for just a moment the notion that the policies of 20 years ago were responsible for the banking crisis.

Big Bang was about modernising financial services in the UK, particularly the stock exchange. Yes, a lot of the regulation was removed but that which remained was put on a statutory footing for the first time and the Bank of England was responsible for it.

The 2008 banking crisis was a result of leveraging that was politically motivated from 2001 onwards (which began in the US and extended globally). The UK position was aggrevated by three factors: the utter incompetence of the box-ticking FSA as the regulator, the persistent reduction of competition through endless mergers and acquisitions and Dr Brown's mad fiscal policy whereby he turned the spending taps on in 2001 (increasing public spending by 40% in real terms in 7 years) on the false assumption that he had ended the economic cycle (boom and bust).

Blaming Big Bang for the 2008 crisis is akin to blaming George III for the current gun control laws in the US.
 
"@BBCNormanS: Downing Street say working title for the operational plan for Lady #Thatcher's funeral is 'True Blue'."
 
yogi bear up the cagire said:
was her enthusiasm for creating a culture of greed and deregulating the banks, which in the end, led to them screwing us all royally.
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She also mad eit easier for people to get mortgages and borrow money, which I read she has been blamed for some people getting into financial difficulties.

At what stage does a person become responsible for their own actions and ability to pay back money they borrow?

Remember, before she took over the Government decided how much money you could take on holiday with you. Would you really want to live with these restrictions again?
 
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