[Abernathy]

She would have been 100 years old were she not languishing in a presumably piss-sodden grave in Chelsea, so perhaps we should mark the fact that she is still dead with a thread dedicated to the hateful old bag.

There’s a school of thought that says that all the shit we are experiencing to this day can be traced back directly to the damage she did to the UK from 1979 to 1990. I tend very much to agree with that. Here is John Baine (aka Attila the Stockbroker) :

All this started with Thatcher. I’ve decided to reverse my previous policy of not mentioning her much any more because there are now two generations who may not be aware of her pivotal ideological role in the privatisation process. And it is privatisation - of utilities, of NHS and education providers, and above all of housing, via ‘right to buy’ - which is primarily responsible for the poverty and division in this country.
I moved to Harlow, one of the post-war new towns, in the late seventies. It was a flourishing place, a council house town, created to give working class Londoners a new home and nicknamed ‘pram town’ because of its young population - my best mate Steve from the Newtown Neurotics moved with his family to a brand new council house there at an early age.
‘Right to buy’, the purchase of council houses at knockdown prices introduced for political reasons, won the Tories the 1983 General Election, deprived my political mentor Stan Newens of his Harlow seat and began the slow erosion of housing stock via a ban on new council house building and the transfer from responsible council tenants to profiteering landlords as people cashed in on what was basically a bribe to vote Tory.
Rot in hell, Thatcher. You are personally responsible for today’s problems: above all the housing crisis, which is ripping the country apart.

[Dalem Lake]

That's what I always say to people whinging that Labour haven't turned things around within a year. Where we are now is a culmination of what her government started 40 years ago and given politicians knack of kicking the can down the road it'll probably take 40 years to reverse...if we're lucky.

[Abernathy]

Margaret Thatcher had two extramarital affairs, new book claims
A new book claims the former prime minister had an ‘extracurricular’ leg-rubbing friendship and two extramarital affairs

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ ... 2jJtZrtWOw

Sources reportedly told her that Baroness Thatcher’s PR chief Tim Bell had an “extracurricular friendship” with the PM, and “one of her favourite things” was Lord Bell putting his hand on her knee, “and other stuff”, during dinners.

In her book, she wrote that Lord Bell was “unlikely to have got to what the Americans delicately term ‘third base’ (or even first or second)”.