Thatcher has Dementia

[crazydiamond85]

Blair's more odious, offensive and thoroughly hateable than Thatcher any day of the week

you are joking yes?

[LesMTS]

you are joking yes?

Blair has more blood on his hands.

[MarkMono]

I utterly disagree.

[TheCastrator]

Blair has more blood on his hands.

That explains the mess he left in the bathroom.

[wingwalker]

I have very little sympathy for most people in this country, never mind those wealthy enough to afford the best care now that they've gone doolally-dribbly all over themselves. Especially her. Go fuck yerself, Maggie.

[crazydiamond85]

Blair has more blood on his hands.

baws

just ask the people of Argentina and Ireland

[LesMTS]

baws

just ask the people of Argentina and Ireland

Blair has presided over three unnecessary wars, two of which will probably outlive him in some form or another and bear bloody fruit for decades.
Not to mention all the little things that add up, overseeing the continuing decline of the NHS, the increasing gap between rich and poor, fuel poverty etc. Also, his toadying to the Bush regime has helped increase ill will across the globe.

[crazydiamond85]

*yawn*
she was a monster, he wasn't perfect, however he was a good leader, he made mistakes, but he shpould be judged on all the good that he done
there is sweet fuck all that she has done that has benifited anyone
I really do hope she rots for a long time and burns in hell

[MarkMono]

She was genuinely psychotic, there is simply no way to equate the amount of damage she did to Britain to that commited through incompetence and/or corruption by any of the political leaders since.

[LesMTS]

there is sweet fuck all that she has done that has benifited anyone

She made it possible for some people to get ludicrously rich, and I think she really did believe in trickle down economics.

She was heartless, aye. I was just saying that Blair has more blood on his hands.

[LesMTS]

She was genuinely psychotic

There's no way she was literally psychotic. She would have been unable to do the job if she was, and, like her or not, she was an effective politician.

[MarkMono]

Fuck, this is pure semantics Les, but Margaret Thatcher re-established and solidified the 'special relationship' that commits us to following the US into any war they feel like.

And it is entirely possible for psychotics to function quite comfortably in high positions of political power. Do I even need to start reeling off examples for this one?

You're wrong. So very wrong.

[LesMTS]

And it is entirely possible for psychotics to function quite comfortably in high positions of political power. Do I even need to start reeling off examples for this one?

Do you mean psychopathic? Psychosis is a different thing entirely. Psychosis includes things like schizophrenia and particularly severe manifestations of depression or mania.

[endless psych]

Do you mean psychopathic? Psychosis is a different thing entirely. Psychosis includes things like schizophrenia and particularly severe manifestations of depression or mania.

He could mean either. She likely would fit a lot of the diagnostic criteria for a psychopath/sociopath mind.

Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality".

She wanted Britian to return to Victorian values, thought there was no such thing as society and probably believed Britain was still a major world power...

[LesMTS]

He could mean either. She likely would fit a lot of the diagnostic criteria for a psychopath/sociopath mind.

She was almost certainly a psycho/sociopath. A huge number of people in hugely powerful positions are, you almost have to be to have the ruthlessness that gets you into that position.
Probably a lot to do with Gordon Brown's predicament is that he isn't a psychopath.