For Flypast forum read Finchley Conservative club.

But since I’m here I would like to say that John Smith would have been one of this countries best post war PM’s. had fate not intervened.

Nope Sunny Jim did not preside over a successful economy, that’s for certain. Who could forget his walk along the Caribbean beach whilst Britain was laid waste following a bin workers strike.

However, Thatcher managed to sell off all our utilities, Much of our housing stock, Take all the financial regulations away from the City which directly led to the 2008 crash ( and that was said by one of her senior civil servants ) whilst alienating half the people in the country. Destroy most of industry in the country. The pole tax…..remember that one….And one of personal favourites ” There is no such thing as society!” . Allowed the Argentines to take the Falklands by selling our carriers and withdrawing the Endurance…Oh how I could go on….

To be honest i enjoyed it. just switched off to some of the narration. Loved some of the photography and thought Red 1 came over particularly well with his pieces to camera.

I liked the insight going into a display and making a decision at the very last minute to go rolling or flat. It cannot be easy making calls so late with regard to mental preparation for the flying.

The independent’s obituary of Margaret Thatcher described her as “The most divisive political leader of modern times”.

Does’nt sound like a prejudice to me. More like an opinion shared by a large number of people. Though perhaps not too many on this forum.

Calling someone prejudiced just because you don’t agree with them is an interesting approach though. Not the kind of thing I’d say in the pub to
someone I disagreed with.

Good…so you agree she was anti ANC and opposed sanctions and that was partly to help her husband…….
Lovely…..we could now go on to how she deregulated the city and set us on the economic road to future financial crisis by doing so ?

The praise was in stark contrast to the view taken by Cameron’s predecessor and another of his heroes, Margaret Thatcher, who described the African National Congress as “a typical terrorist organisation” and fiercely opposed sanctions against the apartheid regime. Her South Africa policy was in part personal: her husband, Denis, had extensive business interests in the country. But her outrage at sanctions also sprang from her anti-communist convictions, which put the promotion of the free market above most, if not all, other political concerns

Source…the Guardian

“I speak as someone who was there”

Ahhhhhh running the country no doubt…..What tosh…..

I was around, working hard in Nottinghamshire during the period…..

Care to comment on her approach to Apartheid

If we are still suffering from anything Moggie…..
Its Thatcher destroying industry, the financial structure, our housing stock, selling all our asserts etc..etc..etc