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From #Libya to class reunions to your own back yard in today’s Graphical #History Tour:
https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2026/05/revenge-of-sixths.html -
Dame Shirley Porter, the mind behind "Homes for Votes" is deceased.
seller of boarded-up homes to potential tory voters instead of providing council housing, sold off Westminister cemetries
#Thatcher #Tesco #TescoDynasty #ShirleyPorter #WestministerCouncil #HomesForVotes #UKPol
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/116505325582234342
Es sei erwähnt, dass in dieser Zeit die unheilvoll paranoide und rücksichtslose #Thatcher / #MargaretThatcher in #GB an der Macht war, die zu diesem lächerlichen, spätkolonialen #Krieg u.a. ihren #Tory-Parteigenossen Kenneth Clarke (lt. Dokumenten aus dem Thatcher-Archiv) zitierte: „Hoffentlich denkt niemand, wir wollten gegen die Argentinier kämpfen. Wir sollten ein paar Schiffe in die Luft jagen, aber sonst nichts.“ So einfach ist das für die obersten, politischen Führer, egal, ob man für oder gegen einen solchen Krieg ist. 1000 Tote waren die Folge dieses Krieges. An wen erinnert das?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/116505325582234342
Es sei erwähnt, dass in dieser Zeit die unheilvoll paranoide und rücksichtslose #Thatcher / #MargaretThatcher in #GB an der Macht war, die zu diesem lächerlichen, spätkolonialen #Krieg u.a. ihren #Tory-Parteigenossen Kenneth Clarke (lt. Dokumenten aus dem Thatcher-Archiv) zitierte: „Hoffentlich denkt niemand, wir wollten gegen die Argentinier kämpfen. Wir sollten ein paar Schiffe in die Luft jagen, aber sonst nichts.“ So einfach ist das für die Obersten, egal, ob man für oder gegen einen solchen Krieg ist. 1000 Tote waren die Folge. An wen erinnert das?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/116505325582234342
Es sei erwähnt, dass in dieser Zeit die unheilvoll paranoide und rücksichtslose #Thatcher / #MargaretThatcher in #GB an der Macht war, die zu diesem lächerlichen, spätkolonialen #Krieg u.a. ihren #Tory-Parteigenossen Kenneth Clarke (lt. Dokumenten aus dem Thatcher-Archiv) zitierte: „Hoffentlich denkt niemand, wir wollten gegen die Argentinier kämpfen. Wir sollten ein paar Schiffe in die Luft jagen, aber sonst nichts.“ So einfach ist das für die Obersten, egal, ob man für oder gegen einen solchen Krieg ist. 1000 Tote waren die Folge. An wen erinnert das?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/116505325582234342
Es sei erwähnt, dass in dieser Zeit die unheilvoll paranoide und rücksichtslose #Thatcher / #MargaretThatcher in #GB an der Macht war, die zu diesem lächerlichen, spätkolonialen #Krieg u.a. ihren #Tory-Parteigenossen Kenneth Clarke (lt. Dokumenten aus dem Thatcher-Archiv) zitierte: „Hoffentlich denkt niemand, wir wollten gegen die Argentinier kämpfen. Wir sollten ein paar Schiffe in die Luft jagen, aber sonst nichts.“ So einfach ist das für die Obersten, egal, ob man für oder gegen einen solchen Krieg ist. 1000 Tote waren die Folge. An wen erinnert das?
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Haha:
➡️ Die Graue Post grüßt aus der Gruft!
Das erinnert an einen autoritären Rückschritt in die Zeit VOR dem Ausbruch des #Neoliberalismus 1980 unter #Kohl, #Thatcher und #Reagan.
Damals war es unter Strafe verboten, auch nur das Telefonkabel selber zu verlängern. Telefonkabel gab es zu Monopolpreisen und durfte nur von Post-MA angeschlossen werden.
Damals wie heute ist das Ausdruck von Liebe zu Renten-Ökonomie UND mehr noch zum bevormundenden Spionage- & Überwachungsstaat.
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/21920/ Real lesson of Falklands furore is we must invest in Britain’s defence | Politics | News #Britain #BritishDefence #Defence #FalklandIslands #falklands #MargaretThatcher #PennyMordaunt #SelfDetermination #thatcher
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RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@30yrdscreamer/116367827621947152
She cheated me of my Queer youth...
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You see, when you fuck over as many people as Margaret Thatcher did, people will be dancing on your grave for many, many years.
'Section 28' you bitch! :catjam:
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Meine Hörempfehlung für heute:
Essay und Diskurs: Herausforderungen - Die Macht der Vermögen und die Ohnmacht des Staates
Webseite der Episode: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tax-the-rich-die-macht-der-vermoegen-und-die-ohnmacht-des-staates-100.html
#Neoliberalismus #Reichtum #Überreichtum #Thatcher #Kohl #Treuhand #Ungleichheit #Steuern #Gerechtigkeit #Demokratie #Deutschland #USA #Großbritannien #Hayek
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#RoryStewart & war criminal #AlistairCampbell had a play-fight in #TheRestIsPolitics, blaming each other for the the UK's 1-ship navy comedy. The so-called "#RoyalNavy" has only ship to send to the #Mediterranean, the #destroyer #HMSDragon.
But the real #comedy is that the boys think this is somehow bad. 🤣
The #BritishEmpire is gone. #Thatcher formally abolished it in January 1983.
And without the spoils of Empire, #PerfidiousAlbion can't afford a blue water navy.
It's cosplaying. -
#RoryStewart & war criminal #AlistairCampbell had a play-fight in #TheRestIsPolitics, blaming each other for the the UK's 1-ship navy comedy. The so-called "#RoyalNavy" has only ship to send to the #Mediterranean, the #destroyer #HMSDragon.
But the real #comedy is that the boys think this is somehow bad. 🤣
The #BritishEmpire is gone. #Thatcher formally abolished it in January 1983.
And without the spoils of Empire, #PerfidiousAlbion can't afford a blue water navy.
It's cosplaying. -
#RoryStewart & war criminal #AlistairCampbell had a play-fight in #TheRestIsPolitics, blaming each other for the the UK's 1-ship navy comedy. The so-called "#RoyalNavy" has only ship to send to the #Mediterranean, the #destroyer #HMSDragon.
But the real #comedy is that the boys think this is somehow bad. 🤣
The #BritishEmpire is gone. #Thatcher formally abolished it in January 1983.
And without the spoils of Empire, #PerfidiousAlbion can't afford a blue water navy.
It's cosplaying. -
#RoryStewart & war criminal #AlistairCampbell had a play-fight in #TheRestIsPolitics, blaming each other for the the UK's 1-ship navy comedy. The so-called "#RoyalNavy" has only ship to send to the #Mediterranean, the #destroyer #HMSDragon.
But the real #comedy is that the boys think this is somehow bad. 🤣
The #BritishEmpire is gone. #Thatcher formally abolished it in January 1983.
And without the spoils of Empire, #PerfidiousAlbion can't afford a blue water navy.
It's cosplaying. -
#RoryStewart & war criminal #AlistairCampbell had a play-fight in #TheRestIsPolitics, blaming each other for the the UK's 1-ship navy comedy. The so-called "#RoyalNavy" has only ship to send to the #Mediterranean, the #destroyer #HMSDragon.
But the real #comedy is that the boys think this is somehow bad. 🤣
The #BritishEmpire is gone. #Thatcher formally abolished it in January 1983.
And without the spoils of Empire, #PerfidiousAlbion can't afford a blue water navy.
It's cosplaying. -
Sometimes it is just too good to be true - but apparently it is (true that is). I wonder how long it will take for the bailiffs to sling him out on his erse?
ammended to include the story
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Our British History Quiz has just been published!
This week we challenge you to take our selection of trivia questions about the History of this fascinating region!
https://youknowwhatblog.com/quizzes/british-history-quiz/
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#quiz #trivia #uk #ukhistory #england #scotland #thatcher #facts #fact #history #historia #historic #historical #historybuff #historyhead -
@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 -
#education #academy #privitisation this was always the danger with the #thatcher plan. The obsession with #sats #oxbridge etc etc was a big black hole. Contrary to the meaning of e-duco (to lead out...implied "out of darkness"). #supporttheunions #nut ✊ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/02/pupils-uk-schools-academy-essex-mossbourne?CMP=share_btn_url
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A bit optimistic, perhaps.
For a dozen and a half years, 2035 seemed the worrisome date, but of late I can't extrapolate any societal effect curves in ways that help me see how we get even that far. People shouldn't get too comfortable with this far out dates that seem to anchor the conversation safely in the future. Even my mention of 2035 is not intended to suggest that's a good anchor date.
Especially with the accelerant we've this week poured on the fire in the US, destroying progress, reversing course, undercutting safety nets.
People will differ on this, but I don't think individual protesting in the US will help because I think this administration is looking for an excuse to declare martial law and to have something they can point to and characterize as dangerous as part of bootstrapping dictatorship. I'm told this is how it's been done elsewhere.
But I do think there are intact legal processes that need to be used. I do think that the people now in office are nervous about this and that pleas from constituents can still affect things. I think slowing the onset of dictatorship long enough to get to the midterm elections (2 years out) in the US and possibly create a legal roadblock is our best bet. It's a long ways off, and I'm not for a moment suggesting physics is willing to hold itself up waiting for process to run. But I think the climate science is not the issue at this point. It's all about politics.
I will say also that not that many days or weeks or months ago, depending on where you count from, but not long, all this stuff in the US was just so much academic talk. And today it is reality for many of us. There's an analogy to be made with Climate. It all seems academic right now, but soon enough the fires of LA won't seem like isolated events. For many around the world who don't control the media focus, it already is reality.
In the Asimov & Silverberg novel Nightfall (not the short story), after a big global cataclysm (which I think is not a spoiler since the story is about the how, not the what), a psychologist named Sheerin who'd predicted social chaos says later, looking back:
«"It's one thing to predict it. It's something else to be right in the middle of it. It's a very humbling thing, Theremon, for an academic like me to find his abstract theories turning into concrete reality. I was so glib, so blithely unconcerned. 'Tomorrow there won't be a city standing unharmed in all [the world]' I said, and it was all just so many words to me, really, just a philosophical exercise, completely abstract. 'The end of the world you used to live in.' Yes. Yes." Sheerin shivered. "And it all happened, just like I said. But I suppose I didn't really believe my own dire predictions, until everything came crashing down around me.»
We all talk about what's coming but we aren't going to really be able to hear ourselves until it happens. And then we're going to be horrified beyond imagination and wonder why we didn't do more.
To lighten the mood slightly, and only slightly, I'll end by noting I'm also reminded of a parody movie poster from decades ago that showed then British-PM Thatcher in then-President-and-former-movie-star Reagan's arms and bore the caption "She promised to follow him to the end of the earth. He promised to organise it!" The concern at the time was nuclear war, which seems almost a quaintly simple concern at this point. This is the sequel that never should have been made.
https://archives.victoria.ac.nz/repositories/2/archival_objects/3029
(There's a color version at https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fgg84vtmnw6f31.jpg as well. I wish I knew who owned the IP to find out the license restrictions or I'd have included the image more directly.)
#climate #ClimateDenial #dictatorship #fascism #USPolitics #politics #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimatePolitics #Nightfall #Reagan #Thatcher
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Die Neoliberalen geben nicht auf, dabei hat die Geschichte gezeigt: Radikaler Marktliberalismus führt ins Abseits.
#Chile ( #ChicagaBoys, #MiltonFriedman), #Großbritannien
( #IEA, #Thatcher #Truss), #FDP
( #Lindner, #Schäffler
Vereint unter dem #AtlasNetwork
geht's weiter: Abbau des Sozialstaats.https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-geschichte-des-neoliberalismus-100.html
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‘As complicit as Saddam’: people on #BA flight held hostage in #Kuwait sue #UK government -
Claimants who were onboard #BA149 claim airline and #Thatcher’s government knew of risk before they landed in 1990
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/as-complicit-as-saddam-people-on-ba-flight-held-hostage-in-kuwait-sue-uk-government
#ToryBehaviour #GE2024 -
Starmer saying there's no money is a capitalist lie
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/05/24/starmer-no-money/#Starmer
#Lies
#Capitalism
#UTurns
#Nationalisation
#TuitionFees
#PublicServices
#Thatcher
#Privatisation
#UKGov
#FiatCurrency
#DividendPayouts
#Shareholders
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The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
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The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
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The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
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The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
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The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
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1980-luvusta on tehty nyt monenlaisia dokumentteja. Areenassa on #Reagan, #Thatcher ja Neuvostoliiton #Tšernobyl . Viimeksi mainitusta nousee hiukset pystyyn, niin surkeaa oli rakentaminen alusta alkaen. #historia #poliittinenhistoria #kylmäsota
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Wichtige Hintergrundrecherche zum globalen fossilen #Lobbyismus des #AtlasNetwork in den letzten Jahrzehnten. Frank #Schäffler, MdB der #FDP und mit seinem #Prometheus-Institut Teil des Altas-Netzwerks, ist mittlerweile bekannt geworden durch seine groteske Angstmacherei vor dem #Gebäudeenergiegesetz ("Atombombe") sowie durch seine Verleumdung der @AufstandLastGen als kriminelle und tendenziell terroristische Vereinigung, als die sie später von der Münchener Staatsanwaltschaft und der Polizei tatsächlich behandelt wurde.
"Almost as soon as Last Generation began staging protests, in early 2022, Schffler began describing them as terrorists, calling the group a 'criminal organization' and publicly demanding it be investigated for organized crime. Media outlets, including conservative publisher Welt and the more mainstream Der @spiegel soon echoed Schäffler s framing. Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists; police said the group was 'a criminal organization that was fundraising for the purpose of committing further criminal action.' It was almost exactly the response to Last Generation that Schäffler had recommended."
Dies ist nur die Spitze des Eisbergs der Machenschaften des weltweiten Atlas-Netzwerks und seiner über 500 Think Tanks, das seinen Ursprung in den frühen 1950ern in Großbritannien hat und wesentlich von marktradikalen Milliardären und der fossilen Industrie finanziert wird. Es hat u.a. in England Margaret #Thatcher und in Brasilien Jair #Bolsonaro zur Macht verholfen. Heute verleumden seine Mitglieder weltweit Klima- und Umweltaktivist:innen und schreiben teilweise Gesetzesentwürfe für deren Kriminalisierung, wie in Großbritannien und den USA, wo sie dann auch umgesetzt wurden:
"U.K.-based Atlas member think tank Policy Exchange, meanwhile, put out a report in 2019 describing @ExtinctionR, an organization famous for shutting down parts of London to call for aggressive climate action, as an extremist organization seeking the breakdown of liberal democracy and the rule of law. As happened in Germany, several U.K. politicians and conservative media outlets have since repeated that framing. It wasn t long before people began cold-cocking Extinction Rebellion activists as they blocked roads or staged other forms of nonviolent, disruptive protest. Four years later, during a speech at Policy Exchange s annual summer garden party in 2023, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi #Sunak thanked Policy Exchange members for 'helping us draft legislation' that significantly criminalized various forms of protest, increased police power, and created the criminal offense of 'willful obstruction of the highway' to curb protests that block roads."
#Klimanotstand #Klimaschmutzlobby
https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters
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@Lats yes, what's novel tho but slowly started with #DavidCameron, exploded with #BorisJohnson and reached the height of ridicule with #LizTruss is how the #Tories have developed a #selfserving culture around the self, literally, AGAINST the party. That is certainly foreign to what #Thatcher used to do. And there are many Tories (unlike in the US) who are still 'old school' & don't like that. I just hope the UK won't follow the US into institutional disintegration.The #climate battle will tell
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Today is a good day to reminisce what Margaret #Thatcher answered, when she was asked what she considered her greatest achievement:
“Tony Blair ."
Sir #TonyBlair has said, that it's not sensible to criticize #Qatar, because it "invests a huge amount of money" in #Britain.
#Blair on sanonut, ettei #IsoBritannia ssa tulisi arvostella Qataria, koska maa on investoinut valtavasti Britteihin.
(Tähän joku oksennushyniö)
