Author Topic: RIP Denis Thatcher (Read 323 times)

qts · « **on:** June 27, 2003, 02:06:32 PM »

You'll be missed.

I never met him but the night his wife resigned he still honoured his commitment to attend Songs at the Royal Albert Hall. I was up in the gods and so could not see him, but he got a standing and prolonged ovation.

Replicant · « **Reply #1 on:** June 27, 2003, 05:50:45 PM »

Never realised he was that old. RIP!

Dowding · « **Reply #2 on:** June 28, 2003, 08:20:19 AM »

To share a bed with that squeak night after night must have taken some guts. He must have been quite a chap.

-dead- · « **Reply #3 on:** June 28, 2003, 01:31:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
To share a bed with that squeak night after night must have taken some guts. He must have been quite a chap.

Guts? I thought it was gin.

beet1e · « **Reply #4 on:** June 29, 2003, 06:15:22 AM »

Denis was a character. I love some of his quotes, and his use of the word "buggeration".

Margaret Thatcher was the most outstanding Prime Minister Britain has ever had, with the possible exception of Winston Churchill's wartime premiership - though he was not a good peace time PM. Margaret was both good during both peace and war (Falklands, 1982). She turned the country around. The top rate of income tax had been 83% when she came to power, with a 15% surcharge for "unearned" income. She got the top rate down to 40%, and abolished the investment income surcharge, which was simply a tax on wealth - the politics of envy.