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A previous football case he presided over.... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/former-liverpool-tom-hicks-and-george-806302

I wonder why he was unpopular...?!

@NabilHassan79: #POMPEY court case to be heard from 10.30 tomorrow, Court 31, Rolls Building. Mr Justice Peter Smith.

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Penny Mordaunt MP ‏@PennyMordauntMP3m Trying speak in Maggie debate tomorrow, esp re Portsmouth and #Falklands. Pls tweet me if you have a message/memory you'd like me to include

I must have missed my invite to the numerous celebration parties

I think the question is wider than that... Thatcher fought the preceding general election on a mandate to reform union powers. She won that election and proceeded to carry out the wishes of those who voted for her. So, to me, the wider question is: "How would people have changed the voting system to stop governments doing what, under the voting system at the time, they had a mandate to do?" Yes, the majority of people under our current system never vote for the government in power but that's the system we had had the time and still do to this day. To me, the focus should be on critiquing the cause rather than the effect.

UK Prime Minister ‏@Number10gov35m Lady Thatcher’s funeral service will take place on Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at St Paul’s Cathedral.

Some interesting insights from Neil Kinnock in this one [video=youtube_share;PpqIXfqnmhc]http://youtu.be/PpqIXfqnmhc

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http://www.pompeytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=555:fans-urged-to-show-court-solidarity-at-fratton-park&catid=34:demo-category

Opinions are figments of the human imagination

Fair comment. As is the reverse.

Some interesting articles on that site... http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/5841/

Where others lead.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/apr/08/swansea-halo-owners-windfall?CMP=twt_gu

http://redmolucca.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/tramp-the-dirt-down/

My understanding is that they all convene at the court tomorrow and the judge then decides whether the case goes ahead there and then or defers the start to Thursday. Depends if there are still some uncrossed t's and undotted i's I guess...

Thatcher didn't actually close any mines - she withdrew public funding. So, if these collieries were profitable then they would/should have survived anyway. Some were profitable, some weren't.

The poll tax wasn't Thatcher's idea. She wanted to get rid of the local rates system and pay for local services from central funding. She had to be convinced by her cabinet that not linking local services to a local tax system was the wrong way to go as people wanted to see that direct link between what you pay for and what you receive at a local level. She was reluctantly converted to the idea of an individual local tax system (aka the poll tax) and only became dogmatic about it once converted as she didn't like to stop something she had already started (something people criticise this current government of doing). So to vilify Thatcher for the poll tax isn't telling the whole story - she didn't want to introduce it but people tend not to delve beneath the headlines...

Somewhat ironically it'll be said "****ed up northerners" who'll end up costing the taxpayer more due to the increased levels of security that'll be required...

I'm happy for some of my tax to be diverted to pay for the funeral. There may be a few others too.

Putting to one side how the Thatcher government dealt with the mining situation in terms of the human impact (yes, I know that side of it is important) does anyone believe that the government of the time should have carried on pouring public money into what were failing businesses? Given the mining industry was losing the country money what was the alternative to withdrawing subsidies for these loss making mines? Serious question. As always, I'm happy to take onboard the 'nasty Tories' accusations but you rarely hear about alternatives.

This blog should be ignored or scoffed at because its in The Spectator... http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/04/an-ism-has-been-named-after-her-charles-moore-on-baroness-thatcher/