Margaret Thatcher Dies Of A Stroke. R.i.p

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// Your a bit late AOG. ///

That will teach me for considering this a major news item and not just one for idle chatter.

[missnemesis]

For MT I have none sara3 so I'm not going to pretend that I do just because she has finally shuffled off this mortal coil.

Mrs_o my reasons are just that - my reasons.

[Zacs-Master]

As sara has already stated jno and missn, its called respect for the dead.

[jno]

quite correct, aog. It is a proper news story.

[naomi24]

A lady with the courage of her convictions. RIP.

[mrs_overall]

missnemesis - ok, if you don't want to explain, fair enough.

[Zacs-Master]

miss n no one is asking you to pretend anything. It's a situation where the old addage 'if you haven't got anything good to say, don't say anything' applies.

[jno]

I didn't respect her while she was alive (nor did she respect me); it would be pure hypocrisy to change my views now.

[jim360]

But is there any obligation to share them? Again, it's just plain rude to speak ill of the dead.

[jno]

this is a public forum and people are free to air their views on it.

[jno]

rude to who, jim?

[missnemesis]

Why is that Zac's? Is AB only for nice agreeable answers?

[mazie]

Did you know her jno?

[jim360]

To the dead, mainly. Those who will mourn someone's death should be entitled to do so, those who do not need not say anything. I don't see why this is such a difficult thing to grasp. It's just plain disrespectful and always has been.

[Zacs-Master]

A lost cause, I'm afraid.

[DangerUXD]

I daren't go and read what they are saying in CB but to address the above, no one minds constructive criticism but most critics of MrsT just descend into vitriolic name calling. Quite a lot of MrsT haters have no direct experiece of the times that she was active and have just been taught to hate her by a generation of lefty teachers and socialist comentators who hated her for exposing their flawed idiology.

[mrs_overall]

Although I was a huge fan, I respect the fact that everyone is entitled to their opinion and there is no need for folks to turn nasty over this

[NoMercy]

JNO, I didn't do a news thread, I did an RIP thread, ergo I think the CB location perfectly apt.

[jno]

mazie: no, I didn't mean personally. I have nothing against her personally. It's her actions I disliked. I have already given one example.

[jno]

NoM, that's fine; I was just saying that it's unreasonable to rebuke aog for beginning a thread here.