themaninblack

Yes but with very little money. Thatcher had billions of pounds of North Sea Oil to piss up against the wall...

All hail the master of the tasteless joke and of the arch speculator of prisoner/person of infamy on the imagined brink of suicide...

All Irish Scottish Cup final then...

Did he have a memory as cold as an iceberg?

You've obviously never heard of this guy: http://en.m.wikipedi...ndy_Baumgardner This still raises a chuckle...

You've got get past sellick first...

Fucking incredible match...

The Queen of Heart(lessnes)s

All will be revealed in the next update...

She isn't, it was an error, it will be changed in the next update... She was my Joker though It's only a mistake on the front page. The scoreboard has the actual points scored...

She isn't, it was an error, it will be changed in the next update...

Here's a UK obit... ...but I'm pretty sure there will be a BBC obit in the not too distant future.

The record is definitely on I think...

Just turned 70. The big C aside, he should last a couple more decades...

If manufacturing is such an irrelevance, how come China's done so well? The blind luck was North Sea Oil, without it she would never have got away with it. Shares in utilities and council houses were sold on the cheap. Now we have nothing left in the cupboard to flog... Not sure how many Western manufacturing workers would be happy with China's rates of pay. To quote New Zealand's 'seventh most popular folk/paordy duo' The Flight of the Conchords "They're turning children into slaves just to make people sneakers, what's the real deal cos the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper, what are your overheads."One of the reasons China's doing well I believe. Of course Thatcher was all for the worker's being well paid, wasn't she? Interesting she didn't fight the Chinese whatsoever over Hong Kong... My original point was that manufacturing in the western world is fucked. The western world. Western. I'm not sure this includes China. In what way is manufacturing different than it is in China? Did it involve magic or something? Making things is making things, that's what's manufacturing is all about. If it's "fucked" you try to improve it. Often through technology or through management of labour. Which is where the problem lies. Increased efficiency in technology leads to less labour required. But less labour means more demand for it, hence the price of labour rises. This is a problem Thatcher and her cronies approached with a sledgehammer. "it was necessary" you will crow, but did if have to be so harsh on those who missed out? Thatcher assumed that the magical market forces would come and take up the slack, it didn't, it concentrated on finance and services instead. Making stuff in a factory may not be massively better than flipping burgers but it paid more and sometimes you got things like pensions and job security out of it...

If manufacturing is such an irrelevance, how come China's done so well? The blind luck was North Sea Oil, without it she would never have got away with it. Shares in utilities and council houses were sold on the cheap. Now we have nothing left in the cupboard to flog... Not sure how many Western manufacturing workers would be happy with China's rates of pay. To quote New Zealand's 'seventh most popular folk/paordy duo' The Flight of the Conchords "They're turning children into slaves just to make people sneakers, what's the real deal cos the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper, what are your overheads."One of the reasons China's doing well I believe. Of course Thatcher was all for the worker's being well paid, wasn't she? Interesting she didn't fight the Chinese whatsoever over Hong Kong... Why should she? It never "belonged to us" and the agreement to lease it from the Chinese was made before she was born. Fucking hell, what is she going to be blamed for next? We have had TWENTY THREE years of Government after her resignation, with a shit load of Labour in charge, and she is still getting blamed for absolutely everything. The funniest thing was listening to Radio 2s Jeremy Vine show when some lickle boy ( 26 ) is going into detail as to why he was celebrating her death, like he actually remembered fuck all. He even blamed her for the Gulf war. Says it all really. Here, have a cup of tea and a slice of toast..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPSzPGrazPo If I heard "under the last Labour government once" in the 1980s, I heard it a billion fucking times. The blame game was invented by the Tories and they're still at it (see Gideon Osbourne). Besides, it's not that there's this little cult of no influence that can barely be heard pleading the Thatcher case before the ravenous dogs, if you took your head out of your arse for a couple of seconds you'll see that Thatcher is being praised as a peacemaker, an environmentalist and saviour of Nelson Mandela. On the BBC. The very organisation her hubby Denis thought were a bunch of pinkos and she set out to destroy. Talk about fucking over-egging the pudding. Thatcher was a fucking cow. That's just not my point of view, it's the point of millions. Deal with it...

Are you quite sure about that? yeah he's deffo dead.Here's a BBC obit http://www.bbc.co.uk...eshire-22091873 The BBC are never wrong! http://mlkshk.com/r/2KNX

Are you quite sure about that?

Been here before methinks. USAmerican Channel, USAmerican writer, New Zealand Director - it certainly won't be a British series that's coming back. Doctor Who was co-created by a Canadian, first story was directed by an Indian and written by an Australian as was it's theme tune...

Is this your own view or is this from some study?

Robert G. Edwards has died aged 87. That's another hit for Octopus of Odstock...

If manufacturing is such an irrelevance, how come China's done so well? The blind luck was North Sea Oil, without it she would never have got away with it. Shares in utilities and council houses were sold on the cheap. Now we have nothing left in the cupboard to flog... Not sure how many Western manufacturing workers would be happy with China's rates of pay. To quote New Zealand's 'seventh most popular folk/paordy duo' The Flight of the Conchords "They're turning children into slaves just to make people sneakers, what's the real deal cos the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper, what are your overheads."One of the reasons China's doing well I believe. Of course Thatcher was all for the worker's being well paid, wasn't she? Interesting she didn't fight the Chinese whatsoever over Hong Kong...

If manufacturing is such an irrelevance, how come China's done so well? The blind luck was North Sea Oil, without it she would never have got away with it. Shares in utilities and council houses were sold on the cheap. Now we have nothing left in the cupboard to flog...

She was the last of this lot...

Still, Thatcher's funeral will be a great opportunity for deadpoolers to spot the frail and not-so frail as well as noting any absentees, so keep 'em peeled...