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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305760/Lefts-chorus-hatred-Champagne-streets-students-union-cheers-vile-internet-taunts.html On 8 April 2013 22:51, Einde O'Callaghan <eind...@freenet.de> wrote: > ==============================**==============================**========== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ==============================**==============================**========== > > > On 08.04.2013 22:57, Gary MacLennan wrote: > >> ==============================**==============================** >> ========== >> Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >> ==============================**==============================** >> ========== >> >> >> I hope Briish comrades on this list do their duty and let us know what is >> being said on the ground among the people. Such is the dominanace of >> "official truth" in the bourgeois media here in Australia that it is hard >> to get beyond the "tributes pour in" line. Though stuff is fltering >> through. Thus the deputy editor of the Sun did say "nasty things" were >> being said about Thatcher on Twitter. My heart leaped with relief. >> >> Lou, as is his wont when a hero of the bourgeoisie dies, prefaced his post >> with "rot in hell". I second that heartily. It is so important that there >> be a people's carnival over Thatcher's death. Her heirs and wannabes in >> the >> Tory and Labour parties need to be "encouraged". >> >> Well, for those who are on Facebook or Twitter there's lots of pictures > of people out on the streets celebrating and the right-wing press are > foaming at the mouth about the "disrespect" that the great unwashed are > showing for their heroine. On Twitter the main tag seems to be #Thatcher. > You'll get both pro- and anti-Thatcher tweets under that tag > > Ken Livingstone, the former Labour Mayor of London, was thrown off a live > television broadcast for suggesting that she was to blame for everything > that was wrong with Britain today. And George Galloway has provoked the > outrage of the right-wing press for having the gall that workers should > "stamp the dirt down on her grave." The manager of an off-licence (liquor > store) in London was suspended for tweeting that in his branch of a large > chain there would be a £10 reduction on a bottle of champagne for those who > felt like having a little celebration (without even a mention of what they > might want to celebrate). > > That's just a fraction of what I've been able to pick up from here in > Germany. > > Incidentally, earlier this evening if you typed the words "Thatcher death" > into Google the first suggestions you got for completing the entry were > "Thatcher death party" and "Thatcher death party kit" and also among the > top 10 suggestions were: "Thatcher death party packs", "Thatcher death > pack", "Thatcher death countdown" and "Thatcher death t-shirts". > > Einde O'Callaghan > > > ______________________________**__________________ > Send list submissions to: > Marxism@greenhouse.economics.**utah.edu<Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu> > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** > utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/marinercarpentry%**40gmail.com<http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marinercarpentry%40gmail.com> > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com