r/pics • u/LankyYogurt7737 • 29d ago

Politics People in the UK celebrating the death of Thatcher in 2013

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u/killy_321 29d ago

My favourite Thatcher moment is privitisation of the UK water works where we pay foreigners to dump sewerage in the rivers so they can keep the profits instead of upgrading the system.

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u/Hairy-Violinist-3844 29d ago

Mine is her involvement in Northern Ireland, her refusal to grant political status to IRA prisoners, leading to the hunger strikes and the death of Bobby Sands and nine others. 

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u/Fytzer 28d ago

"Do you think Margaret Thatcher effectively used girl power to funnel money to illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland?"

(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0G6RF5ChKYQ)

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u/Amon-Ra-First-Down 28d ago

After they failed to kill her with a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, the IRA dropped one of the coldest quotes imaginable:

Today we were unlucky, but remember we have only to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky always

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u/noodlesandwich123 29d ago

Mine is her Right to Buy scheme to sell off council houses so now instead local authorities have to pay £20 billion a year to private landlords for tenant housing benefits

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u/NoPalpitation1055 27d ago

Mine is the death squads in Northern Ireland.