Thatcher has died

Oh sod it!

My theory is that is how Thatcher pacified the masses; gave them credit cards so they could go out and spend money they didn't have due to being unemployed...

So right Tegan, keep their minds on trivia and possessions and then they won't have to worry their heads about the real issues.

Bread and circuses? Plus ca change......

I love a circus , in fact we went to one last Saturday with the "nips" it was really wonderful .

No animals , which I am not awfully keen on anyway , it was really great , would recommend it to any one

Quad erat demonstrandum

I'm hoping that [having just watched a bit of a local news programme on the telly whilst having something to eat] that this will be a good opportunity for us to reappraise ourselves as a country; step back and look at ourselves and what we have become; not all bad but not all good, either.

Mice ??

Some have been distracted by circuses.

Em not quite sure why some posters feel compelled to post in a different language ?

Is it showing off that they have command of another language or what ?

I am such a simple soul , me .

Certainly by a 'Merry Go Round'

You don't have to be fluent in Latin to recognise a couple of well known sayings.

mice

absent LMAO!

I am off now to put on that new frock , don"t think I will put on the n ew high heels , they may be a bit uncomfortable .

Enjoy your evening whatever you maybe doing . I am certainly going to enjoy mine .

Thank you for sharing, Nonu.

Some get distracted and some - I suspect - play dumb.

I'll post in English.

Maggie distracted the population with propaganda, credit and a war/skirmish/conflict (choose your own word).

Of course although credit was available if you got into trouble as interest rates increased it was your own fault for being a spendthrift. Lets not forget the 17+% mortgage rate and people losing their homes including council tenants who had bought their houses as part of Maggie's Right to Buy. I remember all the leaflets we received at every post from predator lenders persuading us of the benefits of home owning. They didn't tell you that if you lost your job and couldn't afford your mortgage repayments they would repossess as quickly as they could thus leaving you homeless, often still in debt and back on the council housing list in a bed and breakfast waiting for a house to come available from a now reduced housing stock.

Perhaps they are not playing, anno..................

Now, now, Greatnan. Benefit of the doubt.

I'm with greatnan

I'm there again. What is LMAO? What is going on? Who is not playing? What have high heels got to do with the price of fish? Help! more .

LMAO laughing my arse off

Vampire Queen I'm with you all the way. During the darkest days of Thatcher, I was bringing up children on my own, paying a huge interest rate on my mortgage, saving pennies in a jar for bus fares and packed lunches. Ding dong, the witch is dead! and yes, definitely forget the obscenity of giving her a ceremonial (and hugely expensive) funeral.

Yes absent

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