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Offline ozrocker

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RIP Margeret Thatcher
« on: April 08, 2013, 07:18:20 AM »
She was a tough old bird back in the day.




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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2013, 07:24:07 AM »
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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2013, 08:03:29 AM »
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Sad news.  She was a great leader. 
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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2013, 08:15:32 AM »
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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2013, 10:41:01 AM »
The last prime minister  we've had  with any real b@lls.....and she was a woman ! <S>
goggles on ,chocks away, last one backs a homo  hooraaaaaaaaay!

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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2013, 11:10:41 AM »
The Iron Lady

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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2013, 11:17:20 AM »
The Iron Lady indeed. May she rest in peace.

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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2013, 11:26:54 AM »
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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2013, 05:38:37 PM »
during a stint at 8th and I in DC I had a chance to briefly meet the Iron Lady. She was a sweet and caring lady and I would say the UK has lost one great lady.  :salute

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Offline xbrit

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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2013, 08:32:16 PM »
During my time in the RAF, at one point I was stationed at a VIP base near London. Mrs Thatcher was a frequent flyer
and always went out of her way to come over and talk to us guys who had to stay late for her flights.
Prior to her being PM we(the military) had really poor pay and little or no respect, soon after she took power
we had a large pay raise and funds were more rapidly available for training and exercises.

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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2013, 08:45:46 PM »
Very sad news indeed.

I really liked her when i was a young lad, It was right around the time of the Falklands War (I was maybe 8 or 9) I remember sitting with my pop asking him who she was and what it was all about...after a long explanation, i decided the very next week to do my first ever book report on her.....

Heard someone say today that "she is proof that our daughters can shatter glass ceilings"   :aok

RIP
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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2013, 08:50:39 PM »
well said bailey :aok
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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2013, 09:15:42 PM »
Sad to hear of her passing, still mixed feelings about her politics. We have a former PM down here who once described a "recession we had to have." Maybe she was in the same position. Even my dyed-in-the-wool labour Brit colleague conceded she pretty much shattered the Old Order, for better and, no doubt, for worse.

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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2013, 09:36:22 PM »
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Offline zack1234

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Re: RIP Margeret Thatcher
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2013, 12:46:15 AM »
Not a lot of workingclass British singing her praises here funny that :old:


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