# Margaret Thatcher has passed-away. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2013, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143 "2013-04-08T12:01:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/21 "2013-04-08T12:54:15Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > RIP > > Thank-you for saving Britain from economic collapse. I cannot but think you are making a funny **Mr Shine**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/22 "2013-04-08T12:56:00Z")
Good bloody riddance. For all the reasons **SanVito** described and then some. ---
**Author:** ![Scougs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scougs/32/3158_2.png) [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/23 "2013-04-08T12:59:26Z")
My Facebook newsfeed is awash with “Ding dong the witch is dead”. Sums up the majority view here in Scotland. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/24 "2013-04-08T13:02:19Z")
> [@Scougs](#): > > My Facebook newsfeed is awash with “Ding dong the witch is dead”. > > Sums up the majority view here in Scotland. And England. And Wales. Can’t speak for Northern Ireland but I think we can guess. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/25 "2013-04-08T13:03:28Z")
She did save the Falkland Islands though right? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/26 "2013-04-08T13:03:53Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > State funeral I assume? Apparently so, on the scale of the Queen Mother’s, but without the lying in state bit. Makes me feel rather nervous… ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/27 "2013-04-08T13:08:06Z")
> [@Scougs](#): > > My Facebook newsfeed is awash with “Ding dong the witch is dead”. > > Sums up the majority view here in Scotland. Yup. Parrrrtay! I’ll be cracking open the wine tonight. Only sorry that I didn’t have a bottle of bubbly put aside for today, unlike some of my leftie friends. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/28 "2013-04-08T13:09:15Z")
A grocers daughter who went all the way to the top. And was undoubtedly one of the most influential politicians of our time [QUOTE=SanVito] … destroy British industry, put millions out of work as a result, [/QUOTE] British Industry destroyed itself…by being noncompetitive, out of date and bloated. She really did nothing but act as the undertaker. Anyway, I wonder how feminists are taking her death. She was hated in that community (and she hated them) but I always got the feeling that she managed to make them uncomfortable. She succeeded where no one else had or has since. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/29 "2013-04-08T13:10:32Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > State funeral I assume? > > My feelings about her are best left out of this thread. There’s a [Margaret Thatcher Legacy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=687539) thread in IMHO, btw… ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/30 "2013-04-08T13:15:14Z")
> [@Scougs](#): > > My Facebook newsfeed is awash with “Ding dong the witch is dead”. For some strange reason I posted that myself. She won the election that made her PM on my birthday and it was a very unpleasant present. Couldn’t she have had the decency to stay alive just a couple of weeks longer to rectify that. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/31 "2013-04-08T13:25:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Brezhnev took Afghanistan > Begin took Beirut > Galtieri took the Union Jack > And Maggie over lunch one day > Took a cruiser with all hands > Apparently to make him give it back — Roger Waters She certainly was influential. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/32 "2013-04-08T13:26:21Z")
A vile person, but no point in caring one way or another when they are long from power. But she was pretty bad. As for her title, they no longer are hereditary — except for those who inherited them from earlier creations, and those have no political status now. Lady Thatcher actually broke this convention and created a hereditary title, Lord Stockton for Harold Macmillan ( ex-pm and Jack Kennedy’s pal ) who rather despised her. When she was given a title they considered making it hereditary, but then realised it would pass to her son, Mark Thatcher. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/33 "2013-04-08T13:35:06Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > For good or ill, she leaves a legacy that can’t be easily dismissed. No, but it can be dragged out of its hole and strung up from a lamppost. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/34 "2013-04-08T13:41:51Z")
One of the 20th century’s great leaders. Rest in peace, Baroness. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/35 "2013-04-08T13:44:14Z")
Last night I watched [Hunger](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986233/combined), a terrific movie about Irish republican Bobby Sands and the Northern Ireland prison hunger strikes. There are a few voiceovers of Thatcher talking about the response to the protests and I was amazed at the negative charisma she generated. Just listening to her made me dislike her. And I can’t be the only one. All the English speaking democracies at the time were run by governments with the same agenda, look after business and stuff the workers. Britain had Thatcher, the US had Reagan and Australia had Hawke/Keating. They all started the trend toward the transfer of capital to business at the expense of the average worker. However the US and Aussie leaders have somehow escaped the public enmity. ---
**Author:** ![Kiyoshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kiyoshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiyoshi)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/36 "2013-04-08T13:47:28Z")
I hope they bury her at a crossroads and ram a wooden stake through her heart, just to be safe. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/37 "2013-04-08T13:51:26Z")
Wow. I didn’t know she was disliked _that_ much! I can understand the feelings on a Reagan level, but posts here sound more like Duh-bya level. I can’t help but think of the jabs Ric made at her on _The Young Ones_. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/38 "2013-04-08T14:10:58Z")
She’s only been in hell for three hours and she’s already closed down three furnaces - some wag on twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/39 "2013-04-08T14:20:53Z")
Going to keep this one separate from the other threads, which have been merged into a [GD thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=687539)…so take any debates there. Please keep this one free of debate, if possible, and just as a general thread. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143/40 "2013-04-08T14:50:05Z")
[QUOTE=Olentzero] Good bloody riddance. For all the reasons **SanVito** described and then some. [/QUOTE] Let’s add the _right to buy_\* and the Poll Tax - that caused frikkin’ riots for gawd’s sake. - Selling off council houses cheaply to the tenants so they could become _home owners_\*\* We’re still living with the side effects of that. \*\* presumably gratefull tory-voting _home owners_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margaret-thatcher-has-passed-away/655143.md?page=3)