Posted on 05/06/2010 5:44:17 PM PDT by mgstarr
Tories gain Kingswood, target 135, as indications suggest a large swing from Labour; anger as voters turned away from polls.
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LOL. Keep singing!!!!
I despise Labour and truly hate Gordo.
I watched all the debates.
OMG, that looks amazingly peaceful.
One week there would refuel anyones engines.
LOL! Well, aren’t you sweet!
Nawww. He’s not TOO bad....and we find areas in which we agree. He doesn’t like ‘Affirmative Action’, believes in securing the border (hell, he had a tough time jumping through all the hoops to become legal here), ‘term limits’, supports our kids being raised Christian (mostly by me), and thinks Hollywood movies for kids are crap. Unfortunately.....he’s for ‘Obamacare’. We’ve been ‘round and ‘round on that one......even tho his father died of neglect, basically, on the NHS (too old to treat). He even admitted to me when I pressed him if he thought our children would be better treated on government health care.....he said, “No.” (angrily and defiantly) Still wants it, tho. Ahhhhh, well! :)
LLS
Anyone remember her telling RINO Poppy Bush not to “Go Wobbly.”
Yeah its lovely when its not raining, the photos are shot when its not raining.
I had the honor of a life-time back in 2002. I got to meet Dame Thatcher at an NRSC fundraiser. I’ve met many notable people, but meeting her stands out.
Lady Thatcher or Baroness Thatcher - she has never been Dame Thatcher.
England/UK/Great Britain under Labour = Dead End Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WPC-N3UYE
Early Kinks video with Ray and the boys going to pick up a deceased Gordo Brooone. Take him back across Hadrian’s Wall.
Hopefully tomorrow is a new day but the Tories are too soft. Daniel Hanin needs to be in charge or UKIP/BNP.
My sincere apologies if I in any way slighted her ladyship, but I have heard her referred to as “Dame Thatcher” in several speeches.
For the most part, they are right wing lefties compared to our politics. Unfortunately for GB, they have submerged themselves in socialism.
We can't afford to do likewise. Who would then protect the lefties from the Bear?
LOL... I take it you live close to the Cotswolds? LOL
A Dame is the female version of a Knight - a Knighthood is (generally) a non-hereditary title, it's not passed onto one's heir, a man who holds it is addressed as Sir FIRSTNAME LASTNAME (and his wife is addressed with the courtesy titlte of Lady LASTNAME), a women who holds it is addressed as Dame FIRSTNAME LASTNAME (her husband gains no courtesy title).
Lady Thatcher's husband, Denis, was knighted as Sir Denis Thatcher in 1991. This was primarily done so his wife (who had just ceased to be Prime Minister) could be Lady Thatcher and still sit in the House of Commons (the holder of a Peerage must sit only in the House of Lords). Sir Denis' knighthood was actually of what is now a very rare type - a Baronetcy, which means it is hereditary (on Sir Denis' death, his son became Sir Mark). These used to be more common, but Sir Denis' was the only one created since 1964.
When Lady Thatcher left the House of Commons in 1992, she was elevated to the Peerage as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire. This is her current title - and as a Baroness can also be addressed as Lady, she is also now Lady Thatcher in her own right (as well as Lady Thatcher, widow of Sir Denis Thatcher). This is a noble title that allows her to sit in the House of Lords.
Lady Thatcher does, in fact, hold a Knighthood in her own right, but it in the highest and oldest Order of Knights, the Order of the Garter, and uniquely among all British knighthoods, a lady who holds that title in her own right is not a Dame, but is a Lady Companion.
In short form, Lady Thatcher or Baroness Thatcher are correct (though there is no insult or slight in calling her Dame Thatcher - titles are so complicated that a convention has developed that if no insult is intended, none should be taken - it's unreasonable to expect the average person to keep all this straight, and any attempt to get it right shows respect).
In full, she is The Right Honourable, The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, Lady Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Member of the Order of Merit, Privy Counsellor, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Thank you, that was very informative and helpful. Again, no slight was intended on my part, I was simply mistaken about the correct title.
She was (and I assume still is) a very sincere, soft spoken lady with a firm handshake and a tinkle in her eye.
“The press here in America had not so much as mentioned her name [Thatcher] before he election to high office...”
Shocking! /massive sarc
The sad thing is the Tories are more similar to Democrats than conservatives these days...
Yes but a grassroot conservative movement is growing in UK as in Europe and it could push Tories in the back!
Conservatives and nationalists like English Defense League are gaining seats and ground in local elections(they were not heard on the national stage with no voice in the MSM)
I spent 3 yrs in the UK from 1960-64 and before I went I recall many telling me about all the rain and fog. I was stationed in Suffolk County about 12 miles outside Ipswich and just up the road from a tiny town called Eyke. While I was there I do not recall it being any more rainy then it was where I lived in the States (NJ) and while we experienced what the Brits called a “killer Fog” it was just the once and any other instances of fog seemed to occur at a frequency which seemed not unusual to me.
Overall I loved the country and would drive for hours through the beautiful countryside very early in the morning while the mist was still lying low in the fields. The best was when I would come round a bend a suddenly be in a small village with the homes right up on the roadside. It was like being part of a picture postcard.
I found the folks there to be very friendly and outgoing towards us with only a very small problem with the younger folks who resented somewhat the English girls attraction to us which was mostly because we had some money to spend and many of us had our own cars, something a goodly number of young Brits did not have.
I will always treasure my time in the UK and wish it were the same today as then. But then I wish America also was the same now as then.
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