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T-shirts rejoicing over Thatcher's death sold at trades union gathering
The Telegraph ^ | 10 Sep 2012 | Christopher Hope

Posted on 09/11/2012 8:02:19 AM PDT by Cronos

One of the T-shirts on sale at this year's TUC conference

The T-shirts, on sale at the Trades Union Congress’s annual conference, cost £10 each and boast that union members will want to "dance on her grave" when she dies.

Last night outraged Conservative MPs called for Labour leader Ed Miliband to disassociate himself with the TUC and for the police to investigate. Mr Miliband's shadow Chancellor Ed Balls is due to address the annual gathering tomorrow.

The T-shirts, which are wrapped in clear plastic, are being marketed by the Derbyshire Unemployed Workers Centre, an organisation which provides "welfare rights advice services" and which is affiliated to the TUC.

One of the garments has an image of Mrs Thatcher’s spitting image puppet, with the words “Hey ho the witch is dead” along side.

Attached to the plastic is a notice urging the buyer only to wear when Lady Thatcher has died. It says: “In the event of Thatcher's death of Thatcher open bag and wear Tee shirt immediately." last night Conservative MPs criticised the T-shirts as tastless. Conor Burns, a Tory MP who regularly visits Lady Thatcher at her home in central London, said: “These sickening sentiments speak to something disordered in the human condition.

“It shows an ugly side to the hard left who cannot move on from their utter defeat at the hands of this remarkable, but now frail, lady.

“Not for the first time Lady T shows why she amounts to so much more than her opponents.”

Aidan Burley MP,..“This sick merchandise tells you all you need to know about some in the union movement - baseless, cowardly and utterly devoid of morality.


(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: thatcher
is there no depth to which the left will NOT plumb?
1 posted on 09/11/2012 8:02:24 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

No, unless you count hell...........


2 posted on 09/11/2012 8:03:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
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To: Cronos

Those cretins and thugs can all GTH.


3 posted on 09/11/2012 8:06:58 AM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Cronos

President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Modern era conservative heroes. We'll not soon see their like again.

4 posted on 09/11/2012 8:10:26 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Cronos

Look at her accomplishments. That’s what these union pigs are against. They’re on the wrong side of humanity.


5 posted on 09/11/2012 8:13:28 AM PDT by youngidiot (The name's Bond. James Bond. James Bond Jovi.)
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To: Cronos

well... i know a few places i will relieve myself once every year


6 posted on 09/11/2012 8:17:18 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Cronos

May the dear Lady outlive all those would wear those vile T shirts.


7 posted on 09/11/2012 8:18:28 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (If you knowbama, You will say NO!bama!!!!!!!)
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To: sten

Why do you think they buried Ted Kennedy at Arlington instead of in MA?


8 posted on 09/11/2012 8:19:14 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Liberty Valance

That is such a great picture. I sure do miss him and his love for this country.Thanks for posting this.


9 posted on 09/11/2012 8:22:05 AM PDT by tapatio (In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010)
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To: Cronos

Bill Clinton is hosting some sort of “global conference” this fall.


10 posted on 09/11/2012 8:22:51 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I didn't post this. Someone else did.)
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To: Cronos

and Englands GDP is what?

These unions suck the juice of life out of a country.


11 posted on 09/11/2012 8:25:05 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

Does England even have a GDP anymore...


12 posted on 09/11/2012 8:29:08 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: ejonesie22

Whatever their domestic product has fallen to, I’m pretty sure it’s gross.


13 posted on 09/11/2012 8:32:22 AM PDT by kevkrom (Those in a rush to trample the Constitution seem to forget that it is the source of their authority.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell

She will if the shirts were made with union labor.


14 posted on 09/11/2012 8:43:07 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: ejonesie22

I was over in Scotland a decade or so ago and expressed my support for Ronald Reagan and Maggie.....oh man, it was on!

They were very vocal against Margaret Thatcher. I felt pretty damn alone in that pub. lol


15 posted on 09/11/2012 9:04:53 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

Scotland is to the left of Stalinist Russia.


16 posted on 09/11/2012 9:07:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: Cronos

This is one of my all time favorite clips. It is her response to “income inequality.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw


17 posted on 09/11/2012 9:21:35 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Cronos

my ex-neighbor the Teamster would fully agree with this


18 posted on 09/11/2012 9:37:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Cronos

Lady Thatcher at President Reagan's funeral.

19 posted on 09/11/2012 10:09:59 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Cronos

Let them sell them.

I will start making and selling my T shirts:

‘Labour closed more mines in 11 years of government than the Tories did in 18’....


20 posted on 09/13/2012 9:19:16 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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