Margaret Thatcher RIP

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Reminds me of a quote of a Tory MP (google suggest Iain Duncan Smith but can't verify this one) visiting a particular run down and staunchly labour area of glasgow and was effectively told he was wasting his breath as they always vote labour - to which he replied "and look where it got you".

I can't really comment on the UK before and after as I was born in '86.

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Reminds me of a quote of a Tory MP (google suggest Iain Duncan Smith but can't verify this one) visiting a particular run down and staunchly labour area of glasgow and was effectively told he was wasting his breath as they always vote labour - to which he replied "and look where it got you".

Well that can be said to adherents of either side of the spectrum at any given time. It's a laugh line, but it doesn't advance a conversation.

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I can't really comment on the UK before and after as I was born in '86.

I wouldn't think that necessarily disqualifies you, but that's up to you.

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Grafitto seen on a wall in Ireland: "Iron Lay? Rust in Peace".

Tame in comparison to what some people have been saying in England.

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Didn't help that the news report was followed up by one saying the Mali government was "ashamed" after a camel they had given to President Holland as a traditional gift had accidentally been eaten in a stew. They promised to give him a "bigger and better looking camel" to be shipped to a French zoo.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

Whether she actually said it or not, she believed it.

RIP

"Here's a good specimen of my own wisdom. Something is so, except when it isn't so."

Charles Fort, commenting on the many contradictions of astronomy

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Unfortunately the same can also be said of capitalism, how much do the USA (and the UK) owe now?

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The US is no longer a capitalist country.

"Here's a good specimen of my own wisdom. Something is so, except when it isn't so."

Charles Fort, commenting on the many contradictions of astronomy

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The US is no longer a capitalist country.

Uh . . . yes it is. Possibly the most capitalist country on the planet. We buy and sell shit people don't even remotely need.

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The US is no longer a capitalist country.

Uh . . . yes it is. Possibly the most capitalist country on the planet. We buy and sell shit people don't even remotely need.

Sadly, you are correct.

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RIP

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Back in 1980, when Ronald Reagan was running (ultimately successfully) to un-seat Jimmy Carter, in his stump speech he'd ask, "Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?", to which the partisan crowd would roar "No-o-o-ooooo!!"

So let me ask you and the other Brits reading this: was the average UK citizen better off at the end of Thatcher's tenure as PM than he/she was before it?

Yes.

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Back in 1980, when Ronald Reagan was running (ultimately successfully) to un-seat Jimmy Carter, in his stump speech he'd ask, "Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?", to which the partisan crowd would roar "No-o-o-ooooo!!"

So let me ask you and the other Brits reading this: was the average UK citizen better off at the end of Thatcher's tenure as PM than he/she was before it?

Yes by far.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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Back in 1980, when Ronald Reagan was running (ultimately successfully) to un-seat Jimmy Carter, in his stump speech he'd ask, "Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?", to which the partisan crowd would roar "No-o-o-ooooo!!"

So let me ask you and the other Brits reading this: was the average UK citizen better off at the end of Thatcher's tenure as PM than he/she was before it?

Yes. No doubt. It put the UK back on the global map.

"The ground does not care who you are. It will always be tougher than the human behind the controls."

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