Thatchers Gone.

[John]

Please keep it clean lad's, people from all over the world visit this site, I know the feelings toward her and her ilk, I feel the same.......

[bogiesdey]

Been in hell for half a shift and she's already closed down 3 furnaces

[colly0410]

She knew how to divide & rule, a friend of mine (who was on strike) still doesn't speak to his Dad (who wasn't on strike)..

[Mick]

Us up here in Yorkshire have put a bide in for rights to burn her on a pit stack here.

[tygwyn]

Your to late Mick,
Us down in South Wales,knew this was coming,and due to the financial state of the country,offered a discount cremation at Aberthaw,we even offered to fill the coal needed to have a good burn.

[fortythreesflyer]

She was that rotten I do no think she would burn, perhaps they will open more pits to fuel the cremation. Kev

[John]

Daw Mill's available, it will never be reopened, shafts open, fire raging down below........

[dazbt]

For a woman who spent much of her working life hell bent in intent to destroy all chances of Britain being self sufficient in providing its own energy and much of the remaining time in imagined fear of The Soviet Threat to heat-up the ‘Cold War’, it seems to me pretty ironic that she will likely be burnt to ashes in the flames of natural gas, piped in at a great cost from the Russian outback.

[bogiesdey]

Just seen the plans for thatchers grave, it's beautiful, but they should have made the dance floor bigger

[Mick]

I was hoping the grave would have been bigger,why waste a good hole fill it with Cameron, Clegg oh not forgetting good old Ian Duncan Smith.
Mick.

[johnh]

I feel no sadness whatsoever for a women who systematically destroyed The life's of so many working class people, a women who placed so many in a state of poverty, a women who systemacticaly destroyed the mining industry and devided family's along with it, all because she thought she had something to prove and Finnish a vendetta against the miners union.

I wouldnt go as far a saying rot in hell but I certainly don't wish she Ever rest in peace, I may have only been 13/14 at the last miners strike but the memory's i have of the destruction she caused will stick with me forever.

The proof is their that she failed in many ways as the uk now import more coal than ever before for energy production, which now puts profits and jobs overseas NOT where they belong IN THE UK.

[John]

I can only comment on history, as the year she came to power was the year I migrated to Australia...
But from what I have read, I feel no compassion for her in any way, I was also against a state funeral for Winston Churchill, who was also a tyrant to the miners, who were fighting for a living wage and regular work hours.

History has shown the Tory's screwed up big time, when I left the UK in 79, it had a thriving export industry, exporting some of the worlds finest machinery and electrical products.
There was ample employment and opportunity for youngsters to enter a trade and get the finest trade training available anywhere.
I worked alongside some of the finest tradesmen in the world.

[shropshirebloke]

Just glad to see the back of the old witch. My pit closed just after she came to power ( thank you Tony Benn - t***er). We spent the early years of her reign trying to bring up two young kids without two pennies to rub together, while watching more and more of our friends and neighbours slide into the same situation.

Looking back I think the only thing that kept us together as a family was that we really were "all in it together" with most of the people we knew.

Come the strike and I was back at work in a different job (ironically, running a centre for the unemployed), but did my best to help the lads who were out - it was a local copper who warned me about using my home or office phone (I'd already noticed some strange noises on the line) because I was collecting donations to the local support group.

My big disappointment was with the Labour Party - I'd been a party member and local councillor, but it was so clear that the leadership (especially Kinnock) wanted the miners, and indeed, the rest of the working class, to be consigned to history, that I left a couple years after the strike.

So where are we now? The revolting Blair and current Labour MPs are paying their tributes to the old cow...bugger it, I'm knocking off before I get banned from here, which I'd really hate, and I'm going to make sure I enjoy next wednesday.

[dazbt]

The Social Security and Benefits Office in Barnsley town centre has a mile long queue of unemployed people waiting to claim compassionate travel allowance in order to be able to attend the funeral. Local coach travel companies are expecting to be fully booked for the funeral excursions, special trains are being laid on and five Eddie Stobart container lorries have been hired to transport all the locally donated flowers and wreathes. There is already a committee formed to organise funding for a life size bronze statue of the dear lady, one popular suggestion is for the figure to be made in a stooped pose and placed in an elevated position directly in front of Barnsley’s existing Dickie Bird statue.

Bless her !!

[colly0410]

There's a story going round that 'Ding, Dong, the Witch is dead' from the wizard of oz will be number 1 on the pop charts on Sunday. Be interesting to see if BBC plays it if it is..

[John]

I note there are a lot of the younger generation who feel for the old girl, those that were either way to young to have known what was going off, or weren't born during the Thatcher years. No matter what evidence is put before them, they won't alter their attitudes...

[shropshirebloke]

On her arrival in Hell one of the first people Thatcher meets is her old house guest Jimmy Saville. "Hello Jimmy, what are you down here for?" - "B*ggering minors" - "Same here...."

[Mick]

Rod Stewart has been asked to perform at Thatchers funeral,but i don't think wake up maggie would go down well.

Mick ;D ;D

[Ragger]

Picked this up from Roy Lamberth (Chair DMM) on fb.

[tygwyn]

And now there`s talk of Nationalising UK Coal,

You could`nt make it up.

[John]

That's only so as they can use taxpayers money to build the industry up to sell it at cut prices to their billionaire buddies......

[tygwyn]

No,its to save their billionaire friends from paying the Pension deficit,instead of them cashing in their property portfolio,that they safeguarded last year when they re-structured UK Coal into 2 separate companies.

[rob52]

Aug 25, 2008 Frankie Boyle on Thatcher's Funeral...The Sentiment is the same

for 3Million, give everyone in Scotland a shovel and hand her over.

Rob.