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I was Margaret Thatcher’s cook — I thought I’d nearly killed her
It must have been tempting though
#thatcher
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#woke Les mesures avant-gardistes et d'une folle originalité du #PLR.
1. Réduire le nombre de fonctionnaires et augmenter l'emploi dans le privé. Traduction: l'État devrait confier plus de tâches au privé, voire privatiser ses services. #Thatcher et #Reagan tout sourire!
2. Encourager la propriété immobilière en supprimant les contraintes écologiques, sociales et urbanistes à la construction. Bon, il fait juste plus de 30°C depuis 10 jours... en juin! 
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/le-plr-veut-limiter-la-croissance-du-personnel-de-la-confederation
Le Temps SA · Le PLR veut limiter la croissance du personnel de la Confédération
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@bbcnewsfeed I wonder if it’s got anything to do with #Thatcher selling off all the school playing fields.
Today in Labor History May 30, 1381: Tax collector John Bampton sparked the Peasants’ Revolt in Brentwood, Essex. The mass uprising, also known as Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising, began because of attempts to collect a poll tax. However, tensions were already high because of the economic misery and hunger caused by the Black Death pandemic of the 1340s, and the Hundred Years’ War. During the uprising, rebels burned public records and freed prisoners. King Richard II, 14 years old, hid in the Tower of London. Rebels entered the Tower and killed the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Treasurer, but not the king. It took nearly six months for the authorities to suppress the Peasants’ Revolt. They slaughtered over 1,400 rebels. Roughly 600 years later, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tried again to impose a poll tax on Britain’s working class. It also sparked a revolt which brought an end both to the tax and Thatcher’s regime. Billy Bragg references Thatcher’s poll tax in his song, All You Fascists.
Wenn euch Wirtschaftsextremisten und Libertäre mal wieder die Geschichte von der #Privatisierung erzählen wollen...
Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeg5vy9q8eo
Why is Thames Water in so much trouble?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgleg70r7rno
Privatisierung in Großbritannien: Hohe Preise, schlechter Service und Kloake an den Stränden
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2023-07/privatisierung-grossbritannien-thames-waterwasserwerke-margaret-thatcher
www.bbc.comThames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penaltyThe company has been fined for breaching rules over wastewater operations and dividend payments.
The last 40 years in a single image .....
@YvetteCooper you are truly one vile evil bitch. May you rot in the hell reserved for the likes of #Thatcher and #Sunak for complete betrayal of our shared common humanity #SOSNHS #Careworkers #UKPol #immigration
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/immigration-uk-migration-care-homes-labour-yvette-cooper-b2748706.html
The Independent · UK care homes to be banned from overseas recruitment in bid to slash migration to ‘significantly’ below 500,000
It can be burned down every Bonfire Night, give old Guy Fawkes a rest.
#UKPolitics
#Thatcher
#KemiBadenoch
#Idolatry
#ToryFascistParty
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2048120/kemi-calls-lady-thatcher-statue-2048120
Express.co.uk · Kemi Badenoch calls for a Margaret Thatcher statue outside Parliament
In 1979, the Conservative Party ran this ad in the London Evening News. The true source of May the Fourth Be With You
Do you feel dirty now?
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)Cassis: Die Schweiz hat ihren Platz zwischen China und den USABundesrat Cassis zur Schweizer Gratwanderung zwischen den Grossmächten – und zur Rückkehr der Machtpolitik.
Starmer won't understand this because he thinks everyone (who matters) LOVES Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher’s greatest achievement. Why are you surprised?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/30/tony-blair-anti-net-zero-anti-woke-corporate
https://economicsociology.org/2018/03/19/thatcherisms-greatest-achievement/
The Guardian · It’s the anti net-zero, anti-woke Tony Blair – how was this man ever considered a progressive?
The important thing to remember is that Thatcher is still dead.
BelfastTelegraph.co.uk · Kneecap’s Coachella set reportedly censored over anti-Thatcher and pro-Palestine chants
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Day 20 
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“spin-off of the US-based #CPAC – short for Conservative Political Action Conference – the #Sydney-based outfit described itself as a “values-based” organisation that “espouses the best of #Howard, #Reagan and #Thatcher while exploring new ideas and themes for the coming generations”.
Guests at the August event included #OneNation senator Pauline Hanson, Michelle Pearse, the CEO of the #AustralianChristianLobby, and broadcaster and soon-to-be alleged sex offender, #AlanJones.
Overseas talent included Jay Aeba, chairman of the Japanese Conservative Union and Heather Wilson, mother of six and co-founder of #GiveSendGo, a #Christian #crowdfunding network which has helped raise money for #NeoNazis and #AntiVaxxers”
“Then, in 2018, investment banker and long-time #ClimateConspiracist Maurice Newman, billionaire storage king Sam Kennard, and David Adler, of the #FarRight Australian Jewish Association (AJA), got together to form #AdvanceAustralia. Money was no problem: #HedgeFund manager and #Liberal Party donor Simon Fenwick tipped in $190,000; a further $400,000 came from Sydney #Establishment couple Rodney and Judith O’Neil, and the Taylor #winemaking family.
Advance pitched itself as a champion of the #SilentMajority – #HowardsBattlers 2.0. But its real concerns were better expressed by another early backer, #hotelier James Power, who was then engaged in a battle to prevent women from becoming members of #Brisbane’s #Tattersall’s Club.”
If you noticed a darker turn to the election this week, here’s a good explanation of the WHY and HOW. Also I see Tony 
got a new job.
#AusPol / #LNP / #Nationals / #Australia <https://archive.md/wY3Cn> / <https://theage.com.au/national/copied-the-maga-model-the-grassroots-lobby-group-funded-by-some-of-australia-s-richest-20250408-p5lq6k.html> (paywall)
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He speaks from the heart!
IMO, #neoliberalism and #libertarianism were justified for a maximum of about 5-10 years in the era of #Kohl, #Thatcher and #Reagan, when e.g. the so called “Deutschland AG” had to be broken up.
Instead of dying afterwards, the ideology mutated into a delusion, enslaved people, created monopolies, plundered natural resources, murdered, putsched and invaded other countries “when needed”.
#Trump and his #fascism are just the visible fruiting body of this deadly fungus.
Fehlt eigentlich nur noch, dass Maggie #Thatcher sich aus dem Grab buddelt und auch wieder mitregiert.
Wobei das wahrscheinlich auch keinen großen Unterschied mehr machen würde.
the clip of glasgow hero, cathy rutherford, reacting to thatcher's death made me wonder if she had a US counterpart when reagan died. if she did, that person was not at the 2004 MTV movie awards. pack of bootlickers (apart from, maybe, kate beckinsale).
#reagan #thatcher #death #reaction
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=jqQh8UZYKRQ
inv.nadeko.netMaking sure you're not a bot!
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@WEBylines I have absolutely no faith in #Labour #NewLabour #momentum ever returning to anything resembling #socialism . #Thatcher destroyed #democracy #labour acquiesced 100% The present lot are a fecking disgrace. I come from good stock and massively proud of my #labour roots. 