I have been away all day, in London. The news of the death of Lady Thatcher is THE story of the day, the week. I am personally distraught at her passing. On the way back from the Airport I listened to the BBC and a programme which praised her as amongst the top 4 Prime Ministers of the last hundred years. Oh, just behind Comrade Brown perhaps? I cannot stomach the BBC coverage of her passing and will leave it with you.
Just heard a bit on the 10 O Clock radio 4 “news”.
Apparently Thatcher said that the “miners were the enemy within”.
Now I`m not going to bother checking that-but I`m pretty sure that she was referring to the miners leadership as that…the likes of Scargill, Heathfield and McGahey…not the ordinary miners who simply followed orders with no chance to vote on what Scargill was doing in their name.
Maybe Carolyn Quinn or whoever didn`t have time to give us the facts…more likely we`re back to flat pack opinions and wished for paraphrases to demonise an old lady who has not even been dead for 24 hours yet.
Truly scum…the BBC trawl South Wales and Kinnocks old memories by way of “tribute” to the woman who at least knew the nature of their evil and malice.
Her crime was to face them down….and we need to really blast the BBCs version of history, as they lie, squirm, weasel and concoct by the second to ensure that “Tomorrow belongs to them”.
With Maggies blessing…let`s win this one for here.
My only quibble with her is that she didn`t wipe the BBC to Kingdom Come after their death on the rock crap…let`s do something suitable to commemorate our dear patriotic sister, and her constant trashing by the BBC lefty cadres.
We`ve got out own Gipper tonight!
Yup, the BBC and the NHS were the two great Stalinist monoliths that she didn’t privatise…….
She also missed some of the powerful unions, masquerading as professional bodies, like the legal profession , doctors etc, they should have been reformed as well. But I agree that her biggest oversight was the BBC, because it does so much to hamper the policies of democratically elected governments not to mention the way it shifts the balance of public opinion in favour of the left.
It’s a pity the Beeb didn’t do ‘Death on the rock’ – it may well have done for Thames TV: “David Elstein, then director of programmes at Thames Television, writes that there was a connection between Margaret Thatcher’s dislike of the station in the wake of the documentary, and Thames’ subsequent loss of the ITV franchise in 1991” – wiki
Actually, the “enemy within” quote was directed by Mrs T. at her oponents qnd critics within the Conservative Party during her 2nd term in office. Trust the BBC to get even the basic history wrong.
” Speaking at a private meeting of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbench MPs at Westminster, Mrs Thatcher said that at the time of the conflict they had had to fight the enemy without; but the enemy within, much more difficult to fight, was just as dangerous to liberty.
Of the tactics of the miners’ leader, she said that the country was witnessing an attempt to circumvent democracy. The violence and intimidation were a scar across the country’s face. ”
Times 20 July 1984
“didn`t have time to give us the facts”
But enhanced narratives aplenty.
Maybe the BBC will commission BIJ for another ‘special’?
Death On The Rock , Thames TV , Julian Manion I think was the reporter ! It was said , thats why they lost the London ITV
franchise in 1992/93 !
Line 14…clearly mean to say that Tomorrow does NOT belong to them…the BBC and Pollys etc
Typo next line, before Dez etc get all upset too…let them find it though…keeps them in clover.
Prepare to batten down the hatches.
Both Five Live this afternoon and Toenails, tonight have said that today’s coverage has been necessarily respectful and the obvious anger has needed to be suppressed, ‘but it will need to be heard in the coming days’
Already today, because Labour has been relatively quiet, the BBC has held a magnifying glass to enlarge the views of those on the Marxist left. And we have tonight, for example the ‘grotesque’ spectacle of Neil Kinnock, who has enriched himself and his family at the EU trough, criticising Thatcher for introducing a selfishness into Britain.
There is much, much more of this to come. Later this week we will see proof, not that the BBC leans to the left, but it is of the Marxist hard left
“the obvious anger has needed to be suppressed, ‘but it will need to be heard in the coming days’
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Guess the BBC can lift the lid on suppression and allow anger to be heard when it feels the need.
No redactions, buying off or FoI exemptions if it serves.
And BBC CECUTT of course has a unique way with public anger, and very much not ‘being heard’ as a guide.
Anybody seen King Coal Arthur or Degsy Hatton yet?
Got to be SOME local BBC outlet where they can rant before getting their soundbites on for the 6 O Clock Show>
And even if Arthur is frail or old-hope those of us who saw him for what he was won`t “Tramp the Dirt Down” on him…it`s only the Left that are this evil.
Mrs Thatcher leaves a legacy. The media today leaves some flakes of dandruff and a dogend on the road. I have been truly ashamed by all of them. I hope they reflect on their outpourings in days to come.
All the rentaquote lefties and media hacks ARE being held to account for their benefitting from the Ladys death in declaring extra income surely. Another windfall for the windbags.
Would hate for Occupy to get all “globally hot under the collars” in seeing their chums getting paid to “tramp the dirt down”, whilst the rest of the country gives thanks for her life.
Thathchers critics turn out to be either “nomarks” …or “skidmarks”….and they only dreamed of being Karl Marx.
Thatcher achieved, we need to remove the lice that have come out these last couple of days to scorn her.
These vile hate-mongers obviously can’t bring themselves to recall what Britain was like in the 70s before Margaret Thatcher came to power and brought some sanity back to the country. I lived through the strikes, the 3-day week, the power outages, piles of refuse in the streets, dead bodies not buried. There had been a concerted effort by the communists; the enemy within; to bring down our country and because of Margaret they failed – on that occasion. That she was unable to complete the purge is I’m sure one of her few regrets. The enemy is still within and still determined to destroy our way of life. Long live Margaret; may there come another to take her place.
Strongly agree. Anyone who lived through the 70’s must remember how grotesque it was to have union leaders all over the telly on chat shows commenting on how the country should be run. Union members went on strike for no good reason and wrecked British manufacturing and their own jobs. It wasn’t Lady Thatcher who wrecked industry it was the workers themselves who did it by stupidly following politically motivated union officials. They reaped what they sowed. But I doubt we will ever hear this truth on the BBC.
Nice that the bbc manage to fit the swp’s little Glasgow rally into the headlines. Looked like about 30 people attending lol!
Atlee’s Britain survives? Huh???? Everything’s not rationed as it was in Atlee’s Britain – the last of that stopped in about 1960. The disastrous nationalisations of Atlee’s Britain were largely set right by Mrs Thatcher, but it had contributed greatly to the mess the country was in by 1979.
The only bit of “Atlee’s Britain” that survives is the NHS. Less said about that at the moment the better. The only other bit is the huge National Debt that Mrs T finally cleared only for Blair/Brown to screw it up again.
The Thatcherite Free Market is still there waiting once we are out of this Blair/Brown caused recession. Her legacy will live on, thankfully Atlee’s didn’t.
he fact the war was caused by her policy to get rid of the old colonies and hence sent out the wrong signals is a bit glossed over…
Dopy Coldez The Dimwit Droid.
Psst I think the war was caused by the Argentinian invasion of British sovereign territory. I think you’ve glossed over that bit.
The bias is in the fact that leftists are allowed to get away with portraying pre-1979 Britain as some sort of utopia which while revered by the left was destroyed by Margaret Thatcher.
This ignores the fact that the 1970s left despised the post-1945 settlement, because fundamentally they saw the mixed economy as no different from a fully fledged market economy. In fact to them it was probably even worse as it softened capitalism, without changing it, and therefore made the job of the socialists/communist revolutionaries that much harder.
In this light I wonder at which point say Bennism will be mentioned somewhere or by somebody on the Quisling Broadcasting Corporation. So we are offered some perspective on the period so we can have a better understanding of Margaret Thatcher.
Also it is about time that someone pointed out to the lefties who again parade this pre-1979 working class, communal paradise which was subsequently destroyed by Thatcherism was equally despised, and belittled by the lefties. So-called ‘Punk Rock’, which is deified by the Quisling Broadcasting Corporation and left, clearly not only despised the social conservatism of working class communities, but sought to exploit it by breaking unspoken social norms for mere notoriety, profit and greed.
The sustained cultural assault of the left on the social conservatism of the working and lower-middle classes has been far more damaging to ‘social cohesion’, ‘community’, and ‘identity’ than any privatisation which occurred in the 1980s.