What exactly did Maggie Thatcher do to deserve such a grand funeral?

[Gunner Since Time Began - born to moan]

[barrybueno]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[SOLMAN(read by millions)]

[Rich]

unions, led the UK to victory against Argentina to retain the Falklands, allowed more than 1million families to buy their council houses, nearly doubled personal wealth across the UK, saw the number of adults in the UK owning shares treble.

Need I continue?

[SOLMAN(read by millions)]

[SOLMAN(read by millions)]

won 3 f**king elections , and the country (apart from miners and left wing extrmists) were right behind her when she crushed Scargil

[Supermac1976]

for them again, he couldn't stand her or her politics. He wasn't the only one who did, either in my family or across large chunks of the U.K.

[Supermac1976]

http://www.romfordconservatives.com/sites/www.romfordconservatives.com/files/yc_0.jpg

You just know that Asian fella in the middle is a massive briefcase ****er.

[Ashberto]

by closing down more grammar schools than any other education minister, replaced manufacturing industry with reliance on people selling each other money that doesn't exist and unrestrained credit dependency (what could possibly go wrong there?) and helped politicise environmentalism.

Just a few things we don't often hear about. ;-)

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

party off and getting herself dumped.

That day on its own exposed her economic shenanigans as nothing more than a credit binge. How I would have loved to have seen her face had she retained power because, make no mistake, exactly the same thing would have happened.

[barrybueno]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

exponentially under her stewardship. Because every two bit little loadsamoney, Essex **** suddenly became a dealer.

[Supermac1976]

Council houses for example, O.K give oppotunity to buy but ffs replace the housing stock you're getting rid of. No wonder there's a lack of social housing, which had led to private landlords taking the piss for years.

[Peter]

Regarding hillsborough, that means you dont give a ****.

[Ashberto]

Result - idle mass-owners of property who produce nothing get fabulously rich - all paid for by the taxpayer.

[Peter]

[Supermac1976]

[Chief Arrowhead]

Did these landlords buy the properties from the government or was it given to them?

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

place in a nice part of Devon for about £10,000 and when she died about 16 years later it went for over £200,000. There were a lot of people who bought at a low price and cashed in with the 'real' value to make a quick buck a while later - I think there were rules about the original buyers having to keep the property for a while but not sure how long. The moneys went to the councils who originally owned the properties but they were forbidden from building more social housing iirc. There were 'property developers' (slum landlords & the like) who made and continue to make a fortune :shrug: immoral I guess but there's no political will to get it sorted.

[David Pleat AHADF (Royal Welsher and monkey lover)]

[Chief Arrowhead]

most of our "council estates" Were high rises that were basically torn down. In its place were private developments that took advantage of tax credits, so called Section 8 housing.

Real Estate values have definitely risen quite a bit in general from those days. I guess the private developers took a risk and it paid off for them?

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

(albeit to crash a bit, but still overall higher than they were, depending on your whereabouts of course)... That fact coupled with the housing benefit paid to people who are unemployed/low wage earners will always guarantee an income for landlords...so not much of a risk really, I would venture. Almost everyone I know who has gone into 'property development' has made a bob or two.

[Classic Jorge]

But for the Liberal Tumult with the SDP etc, North Sea Oil and the Falklands tap in she wouldnt have had such a long term.

[Classic Jorge]

And, ultimately, whether you had the means to take advantage of any of them.

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

can hardly complain when it's sometimes redistributed to people we don't like, can we.

Surely idle property owning piss-takers are as entitled to government support as benefit cheats.