Mrs Thatcher's Condolence Thread

Originally posted by iGRF Originally posted by getafix Had she been a dinghy racer, She would have privatised the start line, made it illegal for working class boats like GP14's Enterprizes, to flying picket, Mirrors would have been sent to wapping, there would only be room for FatCat Finns and the odd city boy in an Int14. The Rules would have been conducted in a secret ballot, shares sold in the RYA which would just be called British Yacht Ltd, LPE would have had its gates locked ages ago and production sold to the French our youth would be sailing La Sere's. Everything else would be subject to boat poll tax and sailing club premises sold off to tenants who by now would have hi rise apartments and penthouses rented out to familys of the better off. There would be a tax on wind and it's use by the knot and square metre.

Fortunately the rise of 'New Sailor' ably spun by Mandy and Campbell, would have had us all riding around in V-Twins calling ourselves Performance Wide-style Boat Riders, not dinghy sailors anymore... amazing the gigs some private sector consultants got... The Sailing Style Tsar according to the Gaurdian (and Sailing Anarchy)

Each one costing twenty grand leveraged against our mortgages, whilst its designer sat in the Caribbean courtesy of the royalties; unhappy, sad and cursing his lame Internet connection that no longer affords him the trolling opportunities he could have otherwise enjoyed.

Thank f**k Yachting went out with Ted Heath and the only cloud on Thatcher's mourning is the idiots in Bristol and Brixton!

Edited by pondmonkey - 09 Apr 13 at 9:27pm

Originally posted by RichTea Jimmy savile got it when he died, Maggie gets it also, FFS this world needs to allow their families to morn the loss of thei mum, grandma, sister etc and not rip into what they did when they were alive. I was 7 when she lost her power as PM, I am unable to comment on if she did the right or wrong thing when in power. The fact the sun had 22 pages of crap to write about her today, stuff they must have stored up ready to print is sad. Did I read any paper today, no I can't be bothered to read media stuff. RIP Maggie.

Can't let this one pass! Jimmy Savile got a series of glowing tributes when he died, but then got villified when he was later exposed as a rampant paedophile - hardly the same treatment as the Evil One Mrs Thatcher.

Although the CNN tribute footage yesterday showing the pair of them together was quite amusing (and produced some very poor taste jokes about screwing miners...)

you can join Graeme as a friend of Dorothy now 

Originally posted by pondmonkey you can join Graeme as a friend of Dorothy now

you told me graeme was dorothy!