Maggie Thatcher passes

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JackyB said:
Requiem in Pace, Lady Thatcher.

If only the bunch in power today (and especially the last 13 years!!!) had one tenth of your determination and ability and love of your country and its people what a different place it would be. Strangely enough her most vociferous critics were women, IMO.
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I will pray for her soul but will also pray that another destructive pm will never get into power, whole industrial and mining communities are as dead as she is,
She was fantastic for certain parts of England but a disaster for northern England Scotland and northern Ireland, her legacy is shopping malls where factories once stood leaving little in the way of meaningful work (new labour werent much better) and the growing mistrust of Scots voters to those in Westminster leading to the potentially disasterous independance vote next year, her so called love of her country/England could very well end the Uk as we know it
ps despite this i still support Scotland in the UK
 
I can see the Devil & St Michael fighting mightily over this one - the loser gets to keep her!!!

Nah, just kidding. God rest the old witch, even if she did quote St Francis out of context, and undermine Christian Theology by dismissing the concept of society.
 
philial said:
I can see the Devil & St Michael fighting mightily over this one - the loser gets to keep her!!!

Nah, just kidding. God rest the old witch, even if she did quote St Francis out of context, and undermine Christian Theology by dismissing the concept of society.
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May everyone be as equally compassionate at your passing. 😉
 
BroomWagon said:
Gerry Adams says MT caused “suffering in Ireland”, maybe this is what these negative thoughts are about. I was starting to sense this.
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That’s not all. I have the impression that in some parts of England she was hated because of her domestic policies concerning the Coal Miners Strike. There is a song in the musical Billy Elliot called “Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher” that illustrates this fact. Just look at the lyrics. Perhaps a Britain can explain this?

Anyway, I see her as one of Britian’s greatest prime ministers. May she RIP.
 
I said naught negative when Chaves passed a few weeks ago, I think Baroness Thatcher was a great woman, more to the point, a great human being. Here are some of her most famous quotes:
**1) Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
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  1. If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
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  1. I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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  1. To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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  1. It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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  1. To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
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  1. I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
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  1. To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
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  1. I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
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  1. There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.
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  1. If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.
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  1. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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  1. We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.
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  1. You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister’s child.
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  1. “I don’t mind how much my ministers talk, as long as they do what I say.”**
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From the Sun
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Even years ago, I found some people in GB who would speak negatively, I could never get it, I thought maybe here in a Catholic Forum, maybe the beef was with Ireland as those times, the late '70s/ early to mid '80s were difficult and there has been animosity there. But other than that, I don’t really get it. It seems like a British-ism to be cantankerous in that way, so to an extent, I dismiss it. And I’m not well informed on what this is about.
 
BroomWagon said:
I said naught negative when Chaves passed a few weeks ago, I think Baroness Thatcher was a great woman, more to the point, a great human being. Here are some of her most famous quotes:

Even years ago, I found some people in GB who would speak negatively, I could never get it, I thought maybe here in a Catholic Forum, maybe the beef was with Ireland as those times, the late '70s/ early to mid '80s were difficult and there has been animosity there. But other than that, I don’t really get it. It seems like a British-ism to be cantankerous in that way, so to an extent, I dismiss it. And I’m not well informed on what this is about.
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I always admired her at PMQs and was in the gallery for this one.

youtube.com/watch?v=5TPpuIslzG4&NR=1&feature=endscreen
 
Loved her strength. May eternal light shine on her and all departed Christians.
 
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
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And some posts today prove that point.
There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.
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Some people seem to forget this fact.
 
pete_29 said:
Wow! Hate Much!:rolleyes:
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There’s some truth in it. Margaret Thatcher was an offensive woman. But I highly respect her nerve and ambition, if nothing else, and I pray for her soul and her family.
 
The Miners, the Miners’ Unions in the North, now I see that’s a sore point. Someone referred to this.

While I may not agree with that, I do see people have their opinions, there is a long tradition of Socialism over there.
 
As with all powerful figures, there will be varying opinions regarding Lady Thatcher’s legacy…but no one can deny that she was one of the movers and shakers in the later portion of the 20th century.
 
Dearly beloved friends,

Cordial greetings and a very good day.

Whether one loathed or loved Mrs. Thatcher, it admits of no serious doubt that she transformed British politics during her time at Downing Street and was probably one of the last convictional politicians.

RIP.

God bless.

Warmest good wishes,

Portrait

Pax
 
SamH said:
And some posts today prove that point.

Some people seem to forget this fact.
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What fact? On the contrary I affirm that there is no such thing as the individual. There is only a body of Christ of which every living soul is a vital and necessary part without which the others do not function properly.

The reason the world has gone to rack and ruin over the last centiury or so is because of the rise of this cult of the individual, whereby we view others who might be dependent on us due to youth, disability, poverty, illness or age as burdens to be discarded rather than brothers and neighbours that we have the privilege and the duty of serving as we would serve Christ.
 


Margaret Thatcher on supporting the US in anti-terrorist raid on Libya, 1986
“… they’re a weak lot some of them in Europe you know …*** WEAK ***… feeble.”
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– UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
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youtube.com/watch?v=RBzAwro8M90

Details surrounding US raid on terrorist bases in Libya 1986:
  • – After** December 1985** Rome and Vienna airport attacks, which killed 19 and wounded around 140, Gaddafi indicated that he would continue to support the Red Army Faction, the Red Brigades, and the Irish Republican Army as long as the European governments supported anti-Gaddafi Libyans.[6] The Foreign Minister of Libya also called the massacres “heroic acts”.
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  • – On** 5 April 1986**, Libyan agents bombed “La Belle” nightclub in West Berlin, killing three people and injuring 229 people who were spending the evening there. West Germany and the United States obtained cable transcripts from Libyan agents in East Germany who were involved in the attack.
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  • – For the Libyan raid, the United States was denied overflight rights by France, Spain and Italy as well as the use of European continental bases, forcing the Air Force portion of the operation to be flown around France, Spain and through the Straits of Gibraltar, adding 1,300 miles (2,100 km) each way and requiring multiple aerial refuelings.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_United_States_bombing_of_Libya

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRET0Q4DYoh4MuTx9LGACpnCQjMSPzQHweRMG2QZhWaSfnTDZQu
 
CaptFun said:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ster_Margaret_Thatcher_at_Camp_David_1986.jpg

Margaret Thatcher on supporting the US in anti-terrorist raid on Libya, 1986

youtube.com/watch?v=RBzAwro8M90

Details surrounding US raid on terrorist bases in Libya 1986:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_United_States_bombing_of_Libya

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRET0Q4DYoh4MuTx9LGACpnCQjMSPzQHweRMG2QZhWaSfnTDZQu
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Where can I obtain a copy of that book? Do you think it might be on ebay or amazon?
 
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