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Why in this age of austerity should the tax payers pay for one ..nay ..two birthday parties for Margaret Thatcher?. Just because she missed the first one from illness they're going to have another on when she recovers. If I'd had an invite I would've probably kept quiet.
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You are not a lone voice, Alexanderd, as I am from the same region and was (still am) a fan of the great Lady. Irrespective of politics, I find this thread particularly offensive. I loathed Ted Heath and Harold Wilson in equal measure, yet would never have dreamed in spouting forth such venomous bile in their directions. For the benefit of the OP, this was never a celebration of Mrs Thatcher's birthday, but a government jolly which would take place, with or without her.
I take no pleasure in Mrs T's triumph over the miners, and feel heartily sorry for the suffering they had to undergo at the time. Unfortunately they were led by someone who considered himself to be Lenin and Stalin rolled into one. Totally unnecessary, in my opinion. Unfortunately, wiser counsels did not prevail, so there had to be a fight and a winner.
When Mrs T was elected as leader of the Tory Party I was in my last year at university, also organist at the local parish church. The vicar, a Labour supporter, frequently mocked me for my allegiance to what he called a dying creed. "That's the Tories out for a lifetime", said he. When she won the general election, four years later, I suggested to him that as a high churchman he might like to consider holding on the following Sunday Choral Evensong with a solemn Te Deum. I offered to coach the choir, as wll as play the organ. He went apesh*t. You'd have thought that I was the Devil's spawn. We parted company some few months later.
When Mrs T was elected as leader of the Tory Party I was in my last year at university, also organist at the local parish church. The vicar, a Labour supporter, frequently mocked me for my allegiance to what he called a dying creed. "That's the Tories out for a lifetime", said he. When she won the general election, four years later, I suggested to him that as a high churchman he might like to consider holding on the following Sunday Choral Evensong with a solemn Te Deum. I offered to coach the choir, as wll as play the organ. He went apesh*t. You'd have thought that I was the Devil's spawn. We parted company some few months later.
I'm fom the fourth generation of a mining family and as I've said on several post when the mining strike has come up I was lucky enough to have been in the position where I was not forced to make the decision to strike or not but as mike says that bastard from Grantham was as bad as that bastard from Yorkshire and though I wouldn't wish death on anybody I won't be sorry to see either of those two in their grave. Between the pair of them they've made a right mess of a country I love
