Just seen Mrs T. on the news.....

[micmak]

I find it very sad that the Iron Lady looked so frail. Age is very unkind.

[DEN53]

I think I read somewhere that she is also suffering from dementia.

[jno]

hopefully we will all have the chance to find out for ourselves

[micmak]

I havn't seen that Den. My Father was a great fan of hers. I'm glad he can't see her as she is today.

[annie0000]

Maybe it would be kinder to put her down - send her on the train up here to Scotland and I am sure someone would oblige.

[micmak]

You don't mean that Annie.

[annie0000]

No disrespect intended to yourself or your dad mikmak, but i do. There would still be a lot of people up here who would gladly do away with her given the opportunity and on the understanding that she would rot in hell. Not a popular Lady.

[micmak]

Whilst I disagree with you Annie, I do respect your opinion. We are all different. Good job we are really or it would be a boring world♥

[anneasquith]

no annie, leave the woman alone there are more private hospitals in london for her than in scotland. im sure many old people at her age look frail.

[stokemaveric]

well she crippled this country...now she knows what it feels like....

[shaneystar2]

I didn't like her .She sold off the crown jewels and killed off our industry.
I seem to remember lots of yuppies lighting their cigars with twenty quid notes whilst other poor devils went to the wall and had their homes repossessed .

She was really friendly with that awful man Pinochet and caused hate,greed and discontent and a great divide in this country .We are still reaping what she sowed .
However I wouldn't wish anyone harm and find it shocking that people could wish a nasty death on her.
She's a harmless old lady now who's not got most of her marbles by the look of things , and, thank goodness has no more influence on society .
She should be left to live out her remaining days in peace .
There are so many politicians and their policies,good or bad , mouldering in their graves as we all will be one day and all the rhetoric and grandstanding in the world really doesn't really amount to much in the great scheme of things .
Life goes on and when she's gone she'll be just another name in the history books .

[Andyvon]

Mrs Thatcher was the last decent leader this country had. She was certainly more of a man than any of the clowns and wasters before and after her. Mrs T put this country and it's people first which is the obligation of all leaders. Those before her and after just sold the country and people down the river with Europe and other things that can't be mentioned on here - all the while lining their pockets and living multi-millionaire lifestyles.

[Bobbisox]

like annie, I didn't like the woman, she fair annihilated Scotland and the North and and Midlands, but I don't wish her any harm as she enters into her final years, she has left her legacy right enough but not a good one here, ask the miners, shipyard workers ect.

[Andyvon]

I'm trying to be fair. Mrs T didn't do much for industry either. Do you remember British industry having to compete in the world market place by becoming 'leaner and trimmer and fitter'? Well - it's now become so lean and trim that it's completely disappeared! Mrs T also started selling off all the nationalised industries. That was fine for the shareholders (most of whom didn't use the services), but it resulted in huge redundancies and fares and prices going through the roof. The legacy today is a ruined and broken country that has no hope of recovery.

I come from the perspective of being in business during the Thatcher years. Mrs T was wonderful to business owners like me. My business and life boomed. However, I believe in nationalisation - certainly of major industries such as power, transort etc. Thatcherism eventually ruined the country though and brought us to this disaster today. Thank God I don't have children to worry about.

[Bobbisox]

she was very scornful to the heavy industries of the North Andyvon, I still remember that spitting image puppet of her when she says
"I declare these shipyards well and truly closed"
then a flat capped image springs up and says
"Haddaway and bile ta heed, yer silly soft southern sh1te"

They don't make 'em like that anymore :-)

[Andyvon]

I miss that programme Bobbisox. It told them just like they were!

My brother's in-laws come from Sunderland. They say that there were lots of shipyards in Sunderland until the 80s. Now there's nothing. I lived in Grimsby for three years and knew it from 1986-1996. When I started visiting the town was the largest fishing port in the world and had been for 1000 years. The fish docks were heaving and the whole town smelled of fish as soon as entered from the A46. The coal mines were all busy, as were the towns that had grown up around them.

When I left Grimsby in 1996 the fish docks were almost derelict, there was just one trawler left from a huge fleet, all the fisgh factories had left, there were 2 people in my road with jobs and just 2 job vacancies per week in the Job Centre. Just 2! All the coal mines had closed and all the towns that relied on the pits were virtually derelict too. No one had a job, all the shops, clubs, pubs etc were shut. I don't know if it's any better now.

That was Thatcherism failing to protect the country from foreign competition. I think the only hope for Britain today is full state control and protection of industry and the economy. Get rid of this free market disaster.

[micmak]

I may be in the minority here. My wife was brought up in a mining town. Scargill (sp) wanted the unions to bring the government down. Thatcher stood up to him, In my opinion rightly so. Government run this country and rightly so, not the unions. Unison and other unions are trying to do it again. Do we really want to go back to those days?

[TTG]

Mrs T had to do what she did as the country was in a state of disrepair caused by the Labour "government" (how history repeats itself). She was not perfect (see poll tax) but seemed to believe in doing what was right for our country rather than selling us out to become other countries lapdogs. Stand up Mr Blair.