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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-61455387
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A bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher has been lowered into place in her home town of Grantham.
The £300,000 statue was offered to South Kesteven District Council after plans to erect it in Parliament Square in London were rejected.
It has been placed on a 10ft (3m) high plinth under CCTV surveillance to minimise the risk of vandalism.
However, within two hours of it being put in place someone had thrown eggs at it.
Only one of the eggs hit the lower part of the statue, as the person throwing them was behind a temporary fence surrounding the memorial.
Egg sales have risen dramatically at the local supermarket over the last 24 hours.
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A bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher has been lowered into place in her home town of Grantham.
The £300,000 statue was offered to South Kesteven District Council after plans to erect it in Parliament Square in London were rejected.
It has been placed on a 10ft (3m) high plinth under CCTV surveillance to minimise the risk of vandalism.
However, within two hours of it being put in place someone had thrown eggs at it.
Only one of the eggs hit the lower part of the statue, as the person throwing them was behind a temporary fence surrounding the memorial.
Egg sales have risen dramatically at the local supermarket over the last 24 hours.
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looks like a panto queen
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Why wait 2 hours...
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The greatest English woman ever
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10 years in prison was vandalising baroness Thatcher
That should keep the feral scum at bay |
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Not before time. A statue should have been erected outside parliament years ago.
Be hard though to keep the scum at bay SW. Cut their benefits if they can afford to waste money on eggs to throw. |
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I hope they don't use the best free range eggs on it.
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Maybe Walter can supply them with eggs from the henhouse he has in his caravan.
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Inspired a No1 record did Thatcher.
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Booted out of office by tory mps trying to save their skins.
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The poll tax was a wonderful idea.
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Statue was supposed to be in London
Good that they are levelling up statues to backwaters. Pleasing to see local retail outlets are doing well from the project. |
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Eggsactly.
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Margaret Thatcher freed this country from the grip of communist union officials.
She also made owning your own home a reality for lower paid workers. Respected all around the world. |
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She was very popular with murderous General Pinochet and Jimmy Savile I believe, among others.
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Could be a scramble to see her statue.
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Lower paid workers cannot own a home today.
Zero chance. Thatcher failed. |
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They cannot even afford to heat
the homes the rent, nor buy enough food to live a healthy life. The half wits saw to that. |
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Many "lower paid" workers today are on benefits and many have to use foodbanks to live.
But all the landlords advantaged by Thatcher and her subsequent lieutenants are perfectly happy, Jack. |
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Maggie Thatcher put Britain first , second and last
Of course the usual suspects don’t like that Anyone who vandalises the statute fine them £ 500 |
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Thatcher v Blair v Boris
A tough call on best to worst  |
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She did take the milk from school children and that wasn’t good
Can you imagine if the tories did that today  |
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Maggie didn’t give two hoots and that was her great strength
One of the best things she did was to refuse to give the IRA terrorist hunger strikers special category . She explained to the Pope they were gangsters and murderers And therefore common criminals |
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stickywickets
Puerile |
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Spot on Charlie
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. “Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.”.
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She didn;t actually but there you go. She was education secretary when it was done so got the blame but Heath over-ruled her objection to its withdrawal. It was boozy Kenneth Clarke who proposed it.
Once again lfc1971 found well short of the bona-fide intel. |
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Lfc1971 is a bigot ....end of
Peace in Ireland wont emerge whilst that lump of faeces is still around |
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"Four people who helped topple the statue in Bristol were found not guilty of criminal damage by a jury in January 2022."
wonder what could possibly happen ? One fecked up country |
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June 15 1971 Maggie Thatcher promised to cut free school milk ( which she later regretted )
Later in the 1980s she stopped Kenneth Clarkes plan to introduce a ban in day care schools Once again you have to check anything loyalhoncho says as he’s often confused , and invariably wrong Again we have the nasty bigot from that part of the world being abusive . They are very good at that but their ears are too sensitive to hear any criticism of themselves. That’s why there’s been no peace and why they were able in their own warped minds to justify bombing and murdering . |
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Now people like that are very intolerant and also petty to throw eggs at a statue
Fine him and as he doubtless expects others to clean up the mess make him clean up the area as part of his punishment |
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Historical amnesia at its worst
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Now the steadfast resolve of Margaret Thatcher and the British government
not to give into the IRA terrorist campaign eventually led to their capitulation and the realisation that they couldn’t bomb their way to a United Ireland She deserves that statue and it should be in Westminster |
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She was a terrorist and filthy scum as far as I am concerned. I would not visit her statue or throw eggs at it. Leave if there for all in Grantham. Look at the filth that came out if your town.
We are still paying the price if her selfish hateful policies. She has destroyed society and her jegacy us young people who cannot afford homes Absolute filth, un Christian scum |
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The files show Clarke was slapped down for his proposals
An official wrote to the pm ‘. You will see from Kenneth Clarkes minute that he has decided to end free welfare milk for children in daycare In response she scrawled NO , underlining the word twice She also struck through a paragraph asking if she wanted to know more The suggestion that Clarke might not announce the plans until after the EU elections Met with the brusque comment ‘ Or at all ‘ I’m beginning to like and admire Maggie more and more  |
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I used to drink mine with a Wagon Wheel from the tuck shop . Happy days !
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At least it will be another option for the miners welfare club's annual mystery tour day out.
"Don't forget the eggs dear" |
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Up there with the Queen and Florence Nightingale as the greatest British women in the last 200 years.
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