Thatcher adviser Alan Walters dies: One down , one to go!!

[butchersapron]

Because they hate the person whose died and want to throw sick on their grave and their memory.

 

[toblerone3]

Because they hate the person whose died and want to throw sick on their grave and their memory.

But their own ideas about running society depend on a high degree of cooperation between people and socialisation both of which depend on abilitiy to get on with people who you don't always agree with parrot-fashion. Underlying this there has to exist a high level of respect for life.

So pissing on somebody's grave (whoever it is) is a bit hypocritical and childish really, particularly as somebody pointed out that there were probably more to the guy's ideas than Thatcherism.

 

[butchersapron]

But their own ideas about running society depend on a high degree of cooperation between people and socialisation both of which depend on abilitiy to get on with people who you don't always agree with parrot-fashion. Underlying this there has to exist a high level of respect for life.

So pissing on somebody's grave (whoever it is) is a bit hypocritical and childish really, particularly as somebody pointed out that there were probably more to the guy's ideas than Thatcherism.

Are you on the right thread? Fuck Walters and fuck you you hippy loon fuck.

 

[toblerone3]

Fuck Walters and fuck you you hippy loon fuck.

When you read something like this you know you've kind've won the argument. Seeya.

 

[butchersapron]

When you read something like this you know you've kind've won the argument. Seeya.

Victory!

 

[audiotech]

One nation conservative, actually. If you're going to sling abuse, at least get it right.

So, why exactly are you celebrating Sir Alan's death? I wouldn't be surprised if a hate-figure such as Norman Tebbit, Michael Howard or Sir Alan's boss had passed away, but dancing on the grave of a reasonably-obscure economic adviser is rather odd.

A fake proletarian play to some gallery I would say.

 

[ViolentPanda]

One nation conservative, actually. If you're going to sling abuse, at least get it right.

So, why exactly are you celebrating Sir Alan's death? I wouldn't be surprised if a hate-figure such as Norman Tebbit, Michael Howard or Sir Alan's boss had passed away, but dancing on the grave of a reasonably-obscure economic adviser is rather odd.

Walters was hardly obscure. In fact he was probably more widely known than many economists with much more original things to say than the Friedmanite Walters ever uttered.
I won't celebrate his death, but I'm not exactly bothered either, because Walters could never bring himself to accept the harm that his brand of economics had caused, and because of his views on Pinochet.

 

[ViolentPanda]

"One down, one to go" blasily celebrating somebody's death.

Is "blasily" a word? Do you mean "blithely", or that the death is being celebrated in a blasé manner?

 

[toblerone3]

Is "blasily" a word? Do you mean "blithely", or that the death is being celebrated in a blasé manner?

Absolutely bang on. I knew that when I typed "blasily" that it was a wrong'un.

What I meant was a mixture between the words 'blithely' and 'blase'.

They mean the same roughly, don't they.

 

[jiggajagga]

So pissing on somebody's grave (whoever it is) is a bit hypocritical and childish really, particularly as somebody pointed out that there were probably more to the guy's ideas than Thatcherism.

"When Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, Walters worked closely with her to draft policies that would put the new economics into effect in government. His prescription — control of the money supply, cuts in public expenditure and taxation, and privatisation of companies in public ownership — later became the platform upon which Mrs Thatcher fought and won the 1979 general election."

And here we are, privatised companies ripping us off, the destruction of community in the UK, A feeling in the UK that "myself is the only important thing in the universe", that there was "no such thing as society". He may have left the government just before the miners strike ( in which 3 of my mates committed suicide by the way) but his grubby moneterist policies were all over Thatchers regime!

A cold, calculating cunt! Rot in turmoil you cack of Satan!!

 

[nino_savatte]

How many exactly?

I can think of two off the top of my head, including Walters. The other being Alfred Sherman.

Exactly, Sherman was the only other member of Thatcher's cabinet who was actually a former communist. He fought in the Spanish Civil War too iirc.

 

[nino_savatte]

No tears for Walters will be shed at Chez Nino.

 

[treelover]

Awful, JJ

Its been estimated that over 400 people committed suicide as a direct result of thatcherite/monetarist policies, inclduding the guy who attempted to drive his car into number ten, there is apparently a little monument to the dead nearby, but I can never find it when i am in London.

 

[tim]

I'd have though that there's a degree of difference between disliking a man's politics and hating him enough to celebrate his death.

What did Sir Alan actually do to merit this opprobrium?

He invented the congestion charge!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Absolutely bang on. I knew that when I typed "blasily" that it was a wrong'un.

What I meant was a mixture between the words 'blithely' and 'blase'.

They mean the same roughly, don't they.

Yes, they do.

In Bizarro-world.

 

[Haller]

Exactly, Sherman was the only other member of Thatcher's cabinet who was actually a former communist.

Kitchen cabinet perhaps...

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Speaking of dead money-worshipping cunts did anybody hear about the suicide of some high flying German capitalist vermin called Adolf Merckle (what a fucking name - two rightwing German leaders rolled into one. Kinda like a Yank being called George Bush). 'Parrently one of his short selling ventures went tits up so he topped himself. Boo fucking hoo. What a selfish cunt though, he had a family. Typical of capitalist vermin: always socialising the losses, even from beneath the grave.

 

[N_igma]

Speaking of dead money-worshipping cunts did anybody hear about the suicide of some high flying German capitalist vermin called Adolf Merckle (what a fucking name - two rightwing German leaders rolled into one. Kinda like a Yank being called George Bush). 'Parrently one of his short selling ventures went tits up so he topped himself. Boo fucking hoo. What a selfish cunt though, he had a family. Typical of capitalist vermin: always socialising the losses, even from beneath the grave.

Far out dude!

 

[nino_savatte]

Kitchen cabinet perhaps...

Sure, he was just an advisor...but he was still a cunt.

That said, his only saving grace is that he actually understood the Balkans and had an affinity with the Serbs.