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Margaret Thatcher was the most divisive and polarising politic leader of the last century. This is an incomplete list of why many of us fall on the side that does not regard her with anything other than odium…

1. She supported the retention of capital punishment
   
2. She destroyed the country's manufacturing industry
   
3. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws
   
4. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren ("Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher")
   
5. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)
   
6. She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration
   
7. She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)
   
8. She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed - the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million
   
9. She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands
   
10. The poll tax
    
11. She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad
    
12. She compared her "fight" against the miners to the Falklands War
    
13. She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we've been railing against for the last 5 years
    
14. She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS
    
15. She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits
    
16. She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA
    
17. She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control
    
18. Section 28
    
19. She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as "that grubby little terrorist"
    
20. She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers
    
21. She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population
    
22. She opposed the reunification of Germany
    
23. She invented Quangos
    
24. She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%
    
25. She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister
    
26. Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech
    
27. The Al Yamamah contract
    
28. She opposed the indictment of Chile's General Pinochet
    
29. Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike
    
30. She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%
    
31. BSE
    
32. She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession
    
33. She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process
    
34. She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa
    
35. Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin
    
36. Crime rates doubled under Thatcher
    
37. Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain - £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros - £1 billion
    
38. Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage
    
39. She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.
    
40. She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education
    
41. In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions
    
42. 21.9% inflation
    
    

Most people recognise the massive changes that evolved during the 1980s. However, to ascribe the positive changes to one person, as though they never would have happened in her absence, is laughable.

Would you include care in the community as part of the NHS or would it deserve its own number?

^^What?

Barstard, it took me a while to figure that out........someone quote me :P

So has someone changed the song words to American Pie ....especially as it has the line the day the music died.

Has the ignore function broken?

For which, I imagine, everyone was very grateful.

Not for the ones that paid to see him.

The problem there is every time Morrisey opens his mouth for anything other than a song shit comes pouring out.

This is a man who said what goes on in McDonalds and KFC is worse than the massacre in Utoya

Same guy would not go on at a gig/festival because he could smell meat.

Am off to brixton, is it a night to re enact the riots?

+1
I always thought she was pissed off at Diana because Dodi Al Fayed and her once got it on in the pantry at Sandringham and ever since Diana hooked up with him, MT wanted her out of the picture.

So scooter rider or owner of the Fiat Uno?

Was Thatcher involved in killing Diana?

There is a ring inside the hub that you can dismantle.

The best (and best smelling) 2 squeak oil is the Magnificent Castrol A747.

I think they might have superceded it with something else these days, but they still make it so the legend continues.

Mikey - probably.

Castrol XR77?

Not according to Halfords...

Had an incident, bent my forks. Fuck.
I'm sorting the bike if I'm riding tomoz.
seriously ---> #capcurse2013

l those who said they would come out tomorrow evening can you please meet me at LMNH at 5:00 that will give us nearly two hours of daylight to put up the signs it would help me big time if you added your name below

Zebs
Skully
Indra
Poots
hoefla
Ramaye
hats (please can someone collect signs and instructions for me)
'swine
Mands
Cafewanda

Also for the sign take down
Almac

What forks you after sure someone can help.

Have you seen the recent FOI request from TFL about busses and cyles incidents?

Have the LCC ever looked in to this?

V-L minispeed is based in Surrey so you can get all your off the shelf needs there.

I'm down with those 10x6 Ultralites but I prefer Revo 4 spokes if it's not going to be 3 piece splits.

Also when do you want these rear lights doing?

Fitted my brake pads on Friday, already better performing than the old ones and I haven't bedded them in yet. Got Mocal stainless brake lines coming this month. Was going to buy a bolt in roll cage but I'm going to spend the money on a hoon in northern Ireland instead.

Did you get the lines from think automotive?

A pair of 26 inch wheels, the front has a disc mount, disc and quick release. The hub is quando and the spokes are black, the hubs are black and the rims are black. The rear wheel is a also a quando rear hub with a bolted rear axle. One side of the hub has a threaded area which could be used for singe speed cog while the other side has a disc brake mounting so could be used as for a bolt on fixed gear cog. £40

Would you accept £5 for the blizzards?

Is the zenon rear derailleur suitable for a triple front?

Need some style advice, am undecided as the bike looks too plain.

Have a white frame conversion with silver deep v's and a blue seat, and a rear blue cable outers. Was thinking of painting the ve section in blue as well as the frame lugs or does that make it look to much.

Or maybe matt black wheels and frame lugs. Am just undecided.

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Glad your alright and not too serious.

Side street + plus line of stationary traffic = proceed with caution. Any damage?

Training tells you this as well as altering road position to improve sight lines, but its a bit late now.

that might be the best argument against motorbikes in bus lanes i've ever seen..

What am I missing?

I would disagree with this statement, and postulate the opposite is true. If the motorist was expecting/used to having that type of traffic they would be more observant. But then again its Streatham.

Hope your back feels better soon.

I know this is hardly a practical point but cars shouldnt really be manouvering into a stretch of road when visibility is obscured. If you cant see that it is safe to maneouver then you shouldnt really be doing it.

Lucky that this was just a dodgy back and knackered front wheel. As Kidboy says, would have been a major deal to a motorbike too.

I take it that it was not a cassette but a freehub, as its not uncommon to snap an axle what usually happens is the axle bends. Then its noted and replaced. You can get stronger axle for a tandem that seems to be the same width but a stronger material.

No so good bits of the film:

Some people felt a bit motion sickness but I loved it. Note the merchandising in the film its really obvious. The cgi effects were a bit too good, and maybe a few more bits of an more like the original. as clefty mentioned there are a few matrix bits and a few Star wars references too. They were the daft punk DJ from the credits.

Did you note the suits and the light brown shoes.

Am going to see the Imax version, as that must amazing.

Ducati rule!

I think kitch isn't really what I'm after, I'm 100% for authenticly scummy.

Plus, I think I might end up very drunk, and I can nearly walk home from E&C.

Scummy is what you'll will get.

The staff will be surly and doubt anyone else will be there. Have a great one and remember to wash hands after touching the ball.

Thought about Bloomsbury Bowl? for the kitch 50's style dinner with bowling and bitburger beer.